One very simple way to get more out of focus groups is to conduct individual interviews with group participants afterwards. We do them by phone, but any other method would work just as well. We have been doing this for our victims of crime project.The benefits are:
Superannuation members are 'bamboozled by poor disclosure' Productivity Commission deputy chair Karen Chester says - ABC.net.au/news [1]
Be honest now. You may not ‘bamboozle’ but are you guilty of any of these communication transgressions?
For our paper ‘Sense-making for Exploratory Qualitative Research’ for the upcoming AMSRS Conference, Suzanne and I interviewed some recent retirees about what it was like to retire. In these interviews, we tested out our new ideas about sense-making.
Jose Sanders, Radboud University and Henriëtte Prast, Tilburg University
The language used to describe investing in the stock market is skewed towards masculinity. It is full of metaphors that come from domains traditionally associated with, occupied by, or deemed appropriate for men.
Jane Gregory is a member of the Susan Bell Research Team, and our Quality Manager. She is also the Professional Standards Officer for AMSRS. In this article, she explains how AMSRS helps members like us keep up to date with the way we handle personal data. Here are some of the things we do: