... and unreasonable patrons, and the stress of doing more with less. Staff voices balance existing student narratives and call for a healthier environment to better serve everyone within the library. Focus groups workplace culture access services staff voices COVID-19 job stress public services workplace...

...In this empirical part of this chapter, we describe a focus group study that we conducted in the setting of higher education. While this study was part of a broader study on talent management and career progression, we will filter out information on talent development to analyse how talent...

... is developed using a focus group with women currently working in PR education and leading projects and institutions in the Spanish academia. Through this research, we discover the struggles and opportunities they face and identify possible solutions and ideas to improve the situation of women in academia...

...Focus Group Discussions The topic of the focus groups was adult safeguarding, and discussions were centred upon the key questions of what kind of behaviours people considered harmful; what they would do if they were being harmed; and what they felt were the best ways to keep people safe. In order...

...In the context of the aim of this paper, the method used may be defined as exhibiting tenets (1) and (2) of Anderson's principles, as follows. Regarding (1), the author was an active participant in each focus group, being the facilitator. Regarding (2), the visibility of the author is seen through...

... amalgamation of qualitative methods used to collect data consisting of verbal and pictorial techniques, including focus group interviews, visitor employed photography, and an adapted Q-methodology incorporating photo-elicitation. The research design for data collection is provided as a guideline to illustrate...

... in short supply in market research projects, we also describe the quick approach we used to enable respondents to access and generate metaphors. Some findings from the project, along with challenges and learnings are offered. Focus groups images laddering market research metaphor elicitation value...

... is to provide researchers with a clear and comprehensive outline of how to conduct research that is inclusive and respectful of autistic participants. Consent process focus groups interviews recruitment sample size participatory Defining Participatory Research With Autistics There is a growing body...

... study methodology institutional research participatory focus groups Introduction This chapter is grounded in a qualitative, nested case study undertaken in Spring 2019 that captured how regulatory policy is understood, framed, and implemented “locally” within an English Higher Education Institution...

... to grasp the spontaneity of everyday conversation? This chapter argues that focus groups, as a research method, are fit to observe and understand real-time ordinary conversation on political issues. In what follows, the argument goes threefold: (1) it contrasts “conversation” with “deliberation” from...

... theory, bona fide group perspective, unobtrusive control theory, dialectical theory, and structuration theory). Next, it discusses best practices and issues related to different data collection methods including observations, historical case studies, ethnographies, focus groups, and interview studies...

...college success focus groups Hispanic-serving institutions transfer college students Interview Protocol Table 2.1 Interview Protocol When did you transfer to [university]? What influenced you to come to [university]? How did you find information about transferring to [university...

... of interest, including Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand. The complex research design involved identifying key stakeholders, and then conducting focus groups with a diversity of stakeholder types. Through a brainstorming process, these groups co-created texts which formed the raw data for the study...