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| Challenges of Recruitment and Retention of University Students as Research Participants : Lessons Learned from a Pilot Study.
| Far, Parisa Khatamian | 2018 |
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Title: Challenges of Recruitment and Retention of University Students as Research Participants : Lessons Learned from a Pilot Study.
Author(s): Far, Parisa Khatamian |
Journal Details: Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association v.67 n.3 p.278-292
Published: September 2018
ISSN: 2475-0158
Abstract: Recruitment of participants into research studies is a great challenge, in particular among higher education students who frequently receive invitations to participate in research projects led by faculty members or fellow students. Researchers need to be mindful of students' motivations and take into account the contributing factors in recruiting students before formulating a recruitment strategy. The primary focus of this paper is to explore the factors which can have an influence on students' decision to participate in research studies as well as effective strategies for facilitating and improving student recruitment. Moreover, the author provides reflection upon a recruitment process of a pilot study discussing the challenges and barriers she encountered during data collection. The main contribution of this paper is to increase awareness and understanding of the multiple facets of students' recruitment, challenges to recruitment efforts and the solutions developed to address them among researchers who might experience similar problems. It is in particular noteworthy as research papers would rarely provide information on the outcome of recruitment experience and reasons behind the low-response rate and failure in participants' retention. [Author abstract]
URL (conditional access) : https://doi.org/10.1080/24750158.2018.1500436
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| The ethics of informed consent.
| Mayne, Fiona
Howitt, Christine | 2013 |
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Title: The ethics of informed consent.
Author(s): Mayne, Fiona | Howitt, Christine |
Journal Details: Every Child v.19 n.3 p.34-35
Published: 2013
ISSN: 1322-0659
Abstract: The term 'consent' is often encountered when conducting human research and is an important part of a set of ethical protocols designed for the protection of those who choose to participate in research. Consent to allow research in early childhood settings needs to be taken seriously, as it involves the provision of formal permission for something to happen. Consent is said to be 'informed' when the person participating in the research understands the nature of that research and is willing to be involved. In early childhood settings, valid informed consent can take several forms: parental consent; child assent (informal agreement) in addition to parental consent; and, a combination of child assent and formal written child-informed consent. When researching with young children, it is not always easy to tell to what degree a child understands the purpose and the rules of his/her involvement. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child clearly states that young children should be 'heard' and receive the same rights as adult research participants, particularly in terms of their right to informed consent. Of course, this consent should be sought along with the additional consent of parents and should be sensitively monitored throughout the research experience. [Author abstract, ed]
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=202120
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| Ethics for research students : our responsibility.
| Large, Maryanne
Clarkeburn, Henriikka | 2011 |
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Title: Ethics for research students : our responsibility.
Author(s): Large, Maryanne | Clarkeburn, Henriikka |
Journal Details: Synergy n.31 p.14-18
Published: July 2011
ISSN: 1325-9881
Abstract: Although ethical competence is a graduate attribute required by the University of Sydney, it is not always one that is successfully learnt. Indeed, in some courses ethics are never formally raised at all, for example in postgraduate physics. The authors suggest that ethics is essential to the functioning of all academic fields. Further, they suggest that ethical skills should be explicitly developed with all students, including those entering research-only programs. They argue why research ethics matters to everyone in academia and discuss why ethical research may not be easy or self-evident, then provide an approach to teaching ethics to research students. This typically addresses: data acquisition, management, sharing, and ownership; supervisor/student responsibilities; authorship; peer review; collegiality; human and animal subjects; conflict of interest; and research misconduct. These topics are much broader than avoiding scientific fraud. They cover a whole spectrum of issues associated with research practice and are relevant for almost all postgraduate students. [Author abstract, ed]
URL (open access) : http://www.itl.usyd.edu.au/synergy/31/#/14/
http://www.itl.usyd.edu.au/synergy/synergy31.pdf
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| Participatory approaches to longitudinal research with young people.
| Woodman, D.
Tyler, D. | 2007 |
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Title: Participatory approaches to longitudinal research with young people.
Author(s): Woodman, D. | Tyler, D. |
Journal Details: Youth Studies Australia v.26 n.2 p.20-26
Published: June 2007
ISSN: 1038-2569
Abstract: The Life Patterns project is a panel-cohort longitudinal study following the life trajectories of 1,908 young people who left school in Victoria in 1991. The project attempts to obtain nuanced pictures of young people's lives in three ways: using a reflexive longitudinal study design, with opportunities for participant feedback and influence on future questionnaire design; using a mix of large numbers surveying smaller numbers in-depth interviewing; and by building ongoing relationships with participants through regular feedback reports on the findings and the impact of the research. The paper uses the example of this project to explore the challenge of participatory approaches to large-numbers longitudinal research. [Author abstract]
URL (open access) : http://www.acys.info/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/54841/2007v26n2p20-26-article2-woodman.pdf
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=162857
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| Factors associated with research management in Australian commerce and business faculties.
| MacGregor, R.
Rix, M.
Aylward, D.
Glynn, J. | 2006 |
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Title: Factors associated with research management in Australian commerce and business faculties.
Author(s): MacGregor, R. | Rix, M. | Aylward, D. | Glynn, J. |
Journal Details: Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management v.28 n.1 p.59-70
Published: March 2006
ISSN: 1360-080X
Abstract: Measurable research outputs have become part of the overall research management structure within Australian universities over the past ten years. As such, policy makers and administrators alike have come to regard effective management structures and mechanisms as fundamental components of a research environment capable of generating desired quantities of quality outcomes. This paper is based on empirical research carried out over the past year that surveyed academics from commerce and business faculties in Australian universities. The data show that factors such as gender, discipline, and academic level appear to impinge on the relative importance of components that make up research management. [Author abstract]
URL (conditional access) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13600800500283858
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| Reticence in action : reflections on people-centred research.
| Parnell, Matthew | 2004 |
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Title: Reticence in action : reflections on people-centred research.
Author(s): Parnell, Matthew |
Journal Details: Action Learning and Action Research Journal v.9 n.1 p.65-80
Published: April 2004
ISSN: 1326-964X
Abstract: This paper reviews an action-research approach adopted by the author/researcher in framing a PhD research program provisionally titled 'Imperfect Whitefella Dreaming: Ways to a Culture of Sustainability'. This research program is investigating the interrelationship of culture, learning and technology in the sustainable development of small communities. It is seeking out ways that could guide new approaches to sustainable development arising from existing thinking and ideas about development. The title respectfully draws inspiration from the indigenous Australian worldview where action in the world is guided by an holistic cosmology; a key contention of the research is that deep behavioural and cultural change, and not just better technology, is needed to make communities of all kinds sustainable. In a global sense, we need a new 'dreaming' to re-shape the culture of environmental exploitation and to guide everyday actions in the world, no matter how imperfect this dreaming may be. The research places cultural and behavioural factors, community participation in technological choice and the personal/subjective at the heart of the ecologically sustainable development process. Consequently, the research demonstrates an action-oriented people-centred approach in the collection of data, consistent with the described community development frameworks. Further, it is based on respect for local viewpoints and a meaningful exchange of service. This research is also seen as a vehicle for community development first and foremost, with research outcomes a secondary output. As a result, the author's attitude to data collection is one of reticence, and as a result, it creates obstacles to timely completion of the research. The paper outlines the researcher's strategies for dealing with such obstacles. [Author abstract]
URL (open access) : http://www.alara.net.au/files/ALAR%20V9%20No1.pdf#page=70
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| Children's views and children's voices in starting school.
| Dockett, S.
Perry, B. | 2003 |
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Title: Children's views and children's voices in starting school.
Author(s): Dockett, S. | Perry, B. |
Journal Details: Australian Journal of Early Childhood v.28 n.1 p.12-17
Published: March 2003
ISSN: 0312-5033
Abstract: The Starting School Research Project promotes the involvement of children in the research agenda. This paper explores some of the philosophical and methodological issues involved in this stance. The main focus of this paper is the voices of children reporting issues of significance to them as they start compulsory schooling, through drawings, descriptions, photographs and demonstrations. [Author abstract]
URL (open access) : http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/AJEC0301.pdf
URL (archived) : http://web.archive.org/web/20190802072452/http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/AJEC0301.pdf
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=167892
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| Is there musical life after graduation? Mining the resources of an understudied population.
| Prickett, C. A. | 2003 |
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Title: Is there musical life after graduation? Mining the resources of an understudied population.
Author(s): Prickett, C. A. |
Journal Details: Research Studies in Music Education n.21 p.58-71
Published: December 2003
ISSN: 1321-103X
Abstract: The preponderance of published research in the music education literature concerns the teaching, musical responses, or preferences of people who encompass kindergarten through baccalaureate levels of formal school settings. This may be understandable, in that most people whose profession is 'music education' spend many hours each day working with a school population. Nevertheless, 'music behaviour' is not limited to people who are youthful and, in fact, music education's commitment to lifelong learning can be enhanced by stretching the parameters of the populations and research questions included in music research. The stereotype that music educators are only interested in, and only qualified to discuss, school/university bands, choruses, or general music needs to be put to rest, and research may offer an excellent venue for opening all our minds a bit. This paper offers rationales and suggestions for including nontraditional participants into research projects, with special emphasis on adults in midlife and in senior years. Topics discussed include: an argument in favor of expanding music research to a population not yet studied extensively, an overview of which people constitute the 'geriatric' population, research questions of particular relevance, identifying where these people may be studied and enlisting participation, special considerations when dealing with these populations, and ways in which research projects may enhance community musical participation. Citations of extant studies are used to sow ideas, with a strong emphasis on thinking 'outside the box' in developing music education research agendas. [Author abstract]
URL (conditional access) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1321103X030210010501
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| Reflections on doing research with young children.
| Fasoli, L. | 2003 |
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Title: Reflections on doing research with young children.
Author(s): Fasoli, L. |
Journal Details: Australian Journal of Early Childhood v.28 n.1 p.7-11
Published: March 2003
ISSN: 0312-5033
Abstract: Drawing on a larger critical case study, the writer uses Wenger's communities of practice framework to reflect on some examples of research practice that involved young children. In Wenger's framework, the research context is viewed as a set of situated social practices that are continually being negotiated by all participants. Most of these practices contain implicit and unstated assumptions about the overall purposes and expectations of the research, thus providing participants with few resources for participating in collaborative ways. As young children move into the research context, they are confronted with new ways of doing things. Being more experienced, the early childhood researcher can make research practice more transparent and assist children to participate more effectively, as collaborators rather than as subjects. [Author abstract]
URL (open access) : http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/AJEC0301.pdf
URL (archived) : http://web.archive.org/web/20190802072452/http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/AJEC0301.pdf
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=167891
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| Interviewing friends and the feminist research process.
| Harris, Nonie | 2002 |
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Title: Interviewing friends and the feminist research process.
Author(s): Harris, Nonie |
Journal Details: Women in Welfare Education n.5 p.44-53
Published: September 2002
ISSN: 1320-3584
Abstract: Feminist analysis of the interview process has largely focused on the developing relationship between the researcher and the researched, rather than the implications of a pre-existing relationship for this method. These implications are explored in this paper. This discussion emerges from the author's reflections, as a feminist researcher, on interviewing her friends. Though in-depth interviews may be successful due to interview technique, women's willingness to be interviewed, shared gender and experience, the author argues that pre-existing friendship adds a unique dimension to the research with implications for the researcher, the researched and the feminist research process. The 'friendly' interview is positioned within the context of the friendship, rather than the research, providing a basis for exploring issues of pre-existing knowledge and power relationships within the interview. [Author abstract]
URL (archived) : http://web.archive.org/web/20070829190111/http://www.aaswwe.asn.au/download/WIWE_05_2002.pdf#page=48
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| 'Tales of the field': whose voice?
| Potts, A. | 1998 |
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Title: 'Tales of the field': whose voice?
Author(s): Potts, A. |
Journal Details: Melbourne Studies in Education v.39 n.1 p.105-124
Published: May 1998
ISSN: 0076-6275
Abstract: The First Annual Qualitative Methodology Conference entitled ' Reclaiming Voice: Ethnographic Inquiry and Qualitative Research in a Postmodern Age' challenged researchers to reflect on the politics of the research process and the nature of the voice that appears in research reports. This article examines some of the issues surrounding ethnographic research, in particular the issue of whose voice published reports represent, issues constraining the voice, and issues influencing the voice of the subjects in the final research report. A particular focus is on insider research and important institutional studies of higher education institutions in Australia, and the paper makes a contribution to what has been called 'tales of the field'.
URL (conditional access) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17508489809556312
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