Phenomenological approach utilizing semi-structured interviews : do early career researchers feel they are practicing in an environment that values research? /
This work was undertaken as part of the taught element of the Doctorate of Applied Social Research: Dementia Studies Pathway (Stirling University). The study attempted to address the overarching question of whether health educators who engage in research activity are important to the education of st...
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Sage Publications Ltd,
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| Summary: | This work was undertaken as part of the taught element of the Doctorate of Applied Social Research: Dementia Studies Pathway (Stirling University). The study attempted to address the overarching question of whether health educators who engage in research activity are important to the education of student nurses and to the delivery of evidence-based care in the wider health community. Utilizing a phenomenological approach, a semi-structured interview was conducted with a representative sample of 10 other early career researchers within the Faculty of Health at the University. Questions focused upon preparation for research activity, their personal aims in engaging in research, and the perception within the department of research activity as a legitimate and viable activity. The data were streamed into categories and coded using NVivo. The methodology reflected many of the tenets of appreciative inquiry, with a move away from the positivist or objectivist idea of the "pure" interview conducted in a sterile environment to a view of the interview itself as an interaction within which both parties construct narrative versions of the social world. In this approach, the emphasis is less on reducing bias by asking questions in a rigidly controlled fashion but by making the subjectivity of researcher a visible part of the project. Within a positivist approach, the researchers position as a colleague and co-worker to the respondents would be seen as a source of subjectivity whereas within this aspect of the phenomenological approach, the researchers "lived experience" of the respondents reality would be viewed as assisting her ability both to ask the right questions and to make legitimate claims. |
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| ISBN: | 9781526419026 1526419025 |