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Musings on why I am a researcher

On 13th Nov 2020 By alisonlawson68In Being curious, doing research4 Comments

The other day I watched a film called Frequencies with my husband and daughter. It was all about a world in which people emitted some sort of frequency – high, low or in between. It wasn’t entirely clear whether these were sound frequencies, light frequencies or some other kind of frequency, but go with it …

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Musings on appreciative inquiry

On 5th Oct 202011th Oct 2020 By alisonlawson68In research methodsLeave a comment

When I was doing research for my MBA back in the late 1990s (yes, I’m ancient) I came across a peculiar effect that my presence as an interviewer had on participants. With the exception of the Dissertation, none of my MBA assignments required me to do any primary research. But of course I did some. …

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Musings on question design for surveys

On 18th Jul 202010th Oct 2020 By alisonlawson68In research methods2 Comments

My husband says I ask too many questions and sometimes asks me, ‘Why do you even need to know that?’ My children say I ‘interrogate’ them. I think this is a bit harsh. I’m only trying to find out what they did at school that day. Any parent will tell you that you have to …

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