Kara / Khoo Researching in the Age of COVID-19

Volume I: Response and Reassessment
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4473-6038-4
Verlag: Policy Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 142 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

As the COVID-19 pandemic hit researchers’ plans, discussion swiftly turned to adapting research methods for a locked-down world. The ‘big three’ methods – questionnaires, interviews and focus groups – can only be used in a few of the same ways as before the pandemic.
Researchers around the world have responded in diverse, thoughtful and creative ways – from adapting their data collection methods, to fostering researcher resilience and rethinking researcher-researched relationships.
This book, part of a series of three Rapid Responses, showcases new methods and emerging approaches. Focusing on Response and Reassessment, it has three parts: the first looks at the turn to digital methods; the second reviews methods in hand and the final part reassesses different needs and capabilities.
The other two books focus on Care and Resilience, and Creativity and Ethics. Together they help academic, applied and practitioner-researchers worldwide adapt to the new challenges COVID-19 brings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kara, Helen

Khoo, Su-Ming

Weitere Mitwirkende

Verma, Arun

Chawla, Paramjeet

Stöber, Silke

Paganini, Nicole

Malvaceda, Eli

Gayle, Vernon

Connelly, Roxanne

Ndhlovu, Emmanuel

Ikhile, Deborah

Couceiro, Louise

Truninger, Mónica

Leßmöllmann, Annette

Falanga, Roberto

Estevens, João

Rowland, Jussara

Delicado, Ana

Vicente, Helena

Valenti, Fabrizio

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction ~ Su-ming Khoo and Helen Kara
Part 1: Going Digital
Chapter 1., Evaluating Strategies to Improve the Effectiveness and Efficiency of CATI-based Data Collection during a Global Pandemic ~ Mridulya Narasimhan, Jagannath R and Fabrizio Valenti
Chapter 2., Going virtual: Finding new ways to engage higher education students in a participatory project about science ~ Helena Vicente, Ana Delicado, Jussara Rowland, João Estevens, André Weiß, Roberto Falanga, Annette Leßmöllmann, and Mónica Truninger
Chapter 3., Disorientation and New Directions: Developing the Reader Response Toolkit ~ Louise Couceiro
Chapter 4., Digital Divide in the Use of Skype for Qualitative Data Collection: Implications for Academic Research ~ Almighty Nchafack and Deborah Ikhile
Chapter 5., Qualitative Data Collection under the ‘New Normal’ in Zimbabwe ~ Emmanuel Ndhlovu
Part 2: Going with Methods that are in Hand
Chapter 6., Social Surveys During the COVID-19 Pandemic ~ Roxanne Connelly and Vernon Gayle
Chapter 7., Structured Literature Review of Psychological and Social Research Projects on the COVID-19 Pandemic in Peru ~ Sascha Reinstein and Eli Malvaceda
Chapter 8., Switching over instead of Switching Off: A Digital Field Research Conducted by Small-scale Farmers in Southern Africa and Indonesia ~ Judith Henze, Nicole Paganini and Silke Stöber
Part 3: Needs and Capabilities
Chapter 9., Research Methods to Understand the ‘Youth Capabilities & Conversions’: The Pros & Cons of Using Secondary Data Analysis in a Pandemic Situation ~ Paramjeet Chawla
Chapter 10., Conducting the Emergency Response Evaluation in a COVID19 Era: Reflections on Complexity and Positionality ~ Arun Verma and Nikolaos Bizas
Chapter 11., Challenges of a Systematization of Experiences Study: Learning from a Displaced Victim Assistance Program, during COVID-19 Emergency in Ethnic Territories in Colombia ~ Natalia Reinoso Chávez, Santiago Castro-Reyes and Luisa Fernanda Echeverry
Conclusion ~ Helen Kara and Su-ming Khoo

Über Autor(innen)

Khoo, Su-Ming
Su-Ming Khoo is Lecturer in Political Science and Sociology, and leads the Environment, Development and Sustainability and Socio-Economic Impact Research Clusters at the National Univesity of Ireland Galway.

Kara, Helen
Helen Kara is a leading independent researcher, author, teacher and speaker specialising in research methods, particularly creative methods, and research ethics. With over twenty years’ experience as an independent researcher Helen now teaches doctoral students and staff at higher education institutions worldwide. She is a prolific academic author with over 25 titles and 1000 citations; notably Creative Research Methods: A Practical Guide and Research and Evaluation for Busy Students and Practitioners, both in their second editions. Besides her regular blogs and videos, she also writes comics and fiction. Helen is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. In 2021, at the age of 56, she was diagnosed autistic. Her neurodivergence explains her lifelong fascination with, and ability to focus on, words, language and writing.

Delicado, Ana
Ana Delicado is a Research Fellow at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.

Verma, Arun
Arun Verma is a leader in integrating intersectionality, race equality action in design, development and action throughout the higher education, third and public sectors both nationally and globally.

Helen Kara has been an independent researcher since 1999 and specialises in creative research methods and ethics.
Su-Ming Khoo is Lecturer in Political Science and Sociology, and leads the Environment, Development and Sustainability and Socio-Economic Impact Research Clusters at the National Univesity of Ireland Galway.