Ethics make reliable research. Ethics here means more than sticking to rules and regulations: safeguarding against physical or psychological harm is the bottomline. Ethics in this research aims to go further. This sometimes makes research ‘harder’ in both senses of the term. ‘Harder’ because it can create misunderstandings or make some procedures seem excessively finicky […]
This research uses two data collection ‘methods’: Semi-structured interviews and vignettes. Semi-structured interviews (SSI) in this research refers to interviews that are guided by a minimal set of pre-designed ‘key’ questions. However, each interview progresses differently, depending on participant answers. SSI contrasts with ‘structured’ and ‘unstructured’ interviews, which could be said to be located at […]