Fieldnotes

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Lowndes ◽  
Palle Storm ◽  
Marta Szebehely
Keyword(s):  
Research Team ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Ethnographic Methodology

This chapter discusses the taking, writing up, and analyzing of fieldnotes as part of the rapid ethnographic methodology. It describes the preparatory process the team members went through to learn how to conduct observations, and the guiding documents/principles used by the research team throughout the site visits. We explain how observations were carried out and how fieldnotes were captured in our project, comparing this process to that of traditional ethnographic research. It compares the process of writing up and analyzing fieldnotes in traditional ethnography with the process used in the team-based rapid ethnography, drawing on our individual experiences in conducting both types. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the strengths and limitations of the team-based approach.

scholarly journals MCR: Open-Source Software to Automate Compilation of Health Study Report-Back

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 6104
Author(s):  
Erin Polka ◽  
Ellen Childs ◽  
Alexa Friedman ◽  
Kathryn S. Tomsho ◽  
Birgit Claus Henn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Equitable Access ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
The Impact

Sharing individualized results with health study participants, a practice we and others refer to as “report-back,” ensures participant access to exposure and health information and may promote health equity. However, the practice of report-back and the content shared is often limited by the time-intensive process of personalizing reports. Software tools that automate creation of individualized reports have been built for specific studies, but are largely not open-source or broadly modifiable. We created an open-source and generalizable tool, called the Macro for the Compilation of Report-backs (MCR), to automate compilation of health study reports. We piloted MCR in two environmental exposure studies in Massachusetts, USA, and interviewed research team members (n = 7) about the impact of MCR on the report-back process. Researchers using MCR created more detailed reports than during manual report-back, including more individualized numerical, text, and graphical results. Using MCR, researchers saved time producing draft and final reports. Researchers also reported feeling more creative in the design process and more confident in report-back quality control. While MCR does not expedite the entire report-back process, we hope that this open-source tool reduces the barriers to personalizing health study reports, promotes more equitable access to individualized data, and advances self-determination among participants.

Introduction

Ethnography ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martín Sánchez-Jankowski
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Interaction ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Ethnographic Methodology ◽  
The University

Introduction to Innovations in Ethnographic Methodology. From a conference hosted by the Center for Ethnographic Research at the University of California, Berkeley a number of original papers developing new methodologies in conducting ethnographic research were advanced. Each paper offers innovations to aid scholars in conducting research within both the phenomenological (Symbolic Interaction and Ethnomethodolgy) and scientific traditions.

The Act of Listening to the Art of Giving Voice: Creative Alternative Practices in Writing About Health in Dance

2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvie Fortin ◽  
Catherine Cyr ◽  
Martyne Tremblay
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Analysis Program ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Alternative Practices ◽  
Research Analysis

Our research team members spent an entire summer interviewing pre-professional contemporary dancers with the aim of understanding their conceptions of health in relationship to their creative projects. At the beginning of autumn we (co-workers Martyne, Catherine, and myself) came together in our comfortable office to begin our data analysis. We had previously planned to use a computer-based, qualitative research analysis program to wade through our sizeable volume of data. We were ready to look systematically for themes emerging from our nine hours of interviews. Unexpectedly, however, things turned out differently, and we found ourselves excitedly reliving the interviews we had had with the interviewees. Through the act of listening and formally recording, we had succeeded in giving rich voice to the participants and the touching stories we were sharing anew were as revealing as when we heard them firsthand. Directing the project, I was pleased to notice how the interviews had found echoes in our own experiences; and, in fact, our discussions were being influenced by and filtered through our own subjective perspectives.

scholarly journals A Study on Trust Construction in University Research Team

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Liu Guoxin ◽  
Yan Junzhou
Keyword(s):  
Research Team ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Repeated Game ◽  
University Research ◽  
Trust Game ◽  
Game Model ◽  
Trust Mechanism ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Countermeasures And Suggestions ◽  
The University

University research team, as a special form of organizations in university, is a characteristic feature of contemporaneity science.it has a rapid development in recent years. But the trust is playing a very important role in research team’s development. The paper analyzes the trust construction of research team by establish one-shot and repeated trust game models, and based on this, establishes the trust game model with university intervention. The conclusion shows that the trust mechanism will not be constructed by one-shot game. While it can be constructed by repeated game, but its trust mechanism is not stable. With the university intervation, the team members will change their behavior and increase the trust probability, and it will be easily construct trust in university research team. According to the above analysis, the paper presents some countermeasures and suggestions to promote trust construction in university research team.

scholarly journals Research-Embedded Health Librarians as Facilitators of a Multidisciplinary Scoping Review

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina Brander ◽  
Colleen Pawliuk
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Research ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Workflow Management ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Program Objective ◽  
High Level

Program  objective:  To  advance  the  methodology  and  improve  the  data  management  of  the  scoping  review through  the  integration  of  two  health  librarians  onto  the  clinical  research  team.  Participants  and  setting:  Two  librarians were  embedded  on  a  multidisciplinary,  geographically  dispersed  pediatric  palliative  and  end-of-life  research  team  conducting a  scoping  review  headquartered  at  the  British  Columbia  Children’s  Hospital  Research  Institute.  Program:  The  team’s embedded  librarians  guided  and  facilitated  all  stages  of  a  scoping  review  of  180  Q3  conditions  and  10  symptoms.  Outcomes: The  scoping  review  was  enhanced  in  quality  and  efficiency  through  the  integration  of  librarians  onto  the  team.  Conclusions: Health  librarians  embedded  on  clinical  research  teams  can  help  guide  and  facilitate  the  scoping  review  process  to  improve workflow  management  and  overall  methodology.  Librarians  are  particularly  well  equipped  to  solve  challenges  arising  from large  data  sets,  broad  research  questions  with  a  high  level  of  specificity,  and  geographically  dispersed  team  members. Knowledge  of  emerging  and  established  citation-screening  and  bibliographic  software  and  review  tools  can  help  librarians  to address  these  challenges  and  provide  efficient  workflow  management. 

scholarly journals Engaging Knowledge Users with Mental Health Experience in a Mixed-Methods Systematic Review of Post-secondary Students with Psychosis: Reflections and Lessons Learned from a Master’s Thesis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Sanderson ◽  
Amanda Vandyk ◽  
Jean Daniel Jacob ◽  
Ian D. Graham
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Advisory Panel ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Master's Thesis

Engaging knowledge users (KUs) as research team members throughout the research process helps generate relevant knowledge and may improve uptake of research results. The purpose of this article is to describe how an integrated knowledge translation (iKT) approach was embedded within a master’s thesis project comprising a mixed-methods systematic review. KUs were engaged in four distinct phases of the systematic review process, including (1) proposal development; (2) development of the research question and approach; (3) creation of an advisory panel; and (4) an end of study meeting to interpret findings and plan dissemination of findings. The extent of each KU’s engagement on the research team fluctuated during the study. Challenges included maintaining the same KUs throughout the project and maintaining the scope of the project to align with a master’s thesis. Our suggestions for optimizing graduate student iKT projects include having regular team meetings and periodically checking in with team members to encourage reflection on overall engagement and progress of the project. Overall, KUs helped create a research project designed to address their needs and provided input on how results might translate into implications for clinical practice, education, academic policy, and future research within their respective contexts.

scholarly journals Who else Needs Protection? Reflecting on Researcher Vulnerability in Sensitive Research

Societies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynette Sikic Micanovic ◽  
Stephanie Stelko ◽  
Suzana Sakic
Keyword(s):  
Research Team ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Vulnerable Population ◽  
Emotion Management ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
Wide Range

Ethnographic research characterised by immersion, reflexivity, and rapport can be unpredictable and uncontrollable, producing a wide range of emotional responses. Much of the literature on sensitive research focuses on ethical requirements and strategies for protecting participants while less attention has been given to the need for researcher protection. In this paper, we share some of the concealed and/or overlooked aspects of researcher vulnerability that are commonly disregarded or under-explored. Based on our fieldwork experiences with a vulnerable population, it considers some of the different ways doing sensitive research with people experiencing homelessness has had an impact on our research team and wider. Specifically, we analyze the emotional impact of distressing and painful research experiences on those directly and not directly involved with the collection of research data (i.e., transcribers and coders). The themes that are discussed include: i) blurring of roles in the field; ii) dealing with heart-rending life stories; and iii) handling emotionally charged experiences. By reflecting on our fieldwork experiences and emotions, we also explore the ways in which emotional impacts can be managed in practice. Strategies for emotion management that have helped us deal with the unique challenges of this research are outlined.

Different EyesAn RN/Sociologist and an Historian Invite You on a Tour of Our Fieldnotes

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Choiniere ◽  
James Struthers
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Origin Stories ◽  
Gendered Division Of Labor ◽  
Over Time

In this chapter a nurse/sociologist and an historian discuss how their academic backgrounds and disciplinary perspectives shaped both what they saw and what they overlooked during the process of conducting ethnographic research for this project. For both authors, doing ethnography was a new endeavor, although each had published on long-term residential care within their own disciplines. The chapter highlights how an historical gaze focused one author’s attention toward the significance of location, sense of place, cultural memory, and origin stories in writing fieldnotes on the nursing homes he visited. The nurse/sociologist concentrated on issues surrounding the gendered division of labor, health and safety, workplace accountability, and differing emphases upon social as opposed to medical care. Over time, through conversations with team members and each other, their fieldnotes increasingly incorporated shared perspectives on the significance of location, heritage, workplace practices and tensions between social and medical care.

Conflict of interest in pharmaceutical policy research: an example from Canada

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neena Chappell ◽  
Alan Cassels ◽  
Linda Outcalt ◽  
Carren Dujela
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers ◽  
Drug Companies ◽  
Coverage With Evidence Development ◽  
Awareness Raising

Purpose – There is much evidence of bias in research on the effectiveness and efficacy of drugs as a result of the influence of the pharmaceutical industry. The purpose of this paper is to present the views of those involved in a major evidence-based policy initiative from Canada and examine the adequacy of existing academic conflict of interest (COI) rules. Design/methodology/approach – Data came from the Alzheimer’s Drug Therapy Initiative in British Columbia, a coverage with evidence development (CED) initiative, where a form of action research collected insights from the authors’ experiences, combined with qualitative interviews with members of the research team. Findings – The majority of researchers perceive the influence of pharmaceutical manufacturers as problematic. Even when the strictest of COI rules are followed, extending well beyond disclosure, the reach of industry is so great that existing COI rules lag far behind their expanding influence. Practical implications – The authors support others who call for the funding of independent research, enforcement of existing disclosure rules, and unfettered publication rights. In addition, the authors urge the education of all research team members, including clinicians, on the evidence indicating the variety of forms through which industry influence is exerted. The authors believe that this awareness-raising can help toward minimizing that influence in the analyses that are conducted. Originality/value – Consideration of pharmaceutical influence on CED research is important. There may be an untrue assumption that CED is functioning at arms-length from the drug companies.

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