I’ve started my epistolary interviews. I have two tutor groups on which all the students and at least one tutor have agreed to me archiving their FirstClass conference, so I’m now interviewing all members of those groups who agreed to an epistolary interview. I got my first response in less than an hour, and I […]
No sooner do I vent in my blog about my interrupted epistolary interviews than both interviewees get back to me with answers. 🙂 🙂 🙂
My pilot interviews are throwing up lots of things that didn’t happen last year. I guess, as I’m adding about 25% to my knowledge of this technique, that that is only to be expected. Gill sent me web links and attachments – thus demonstrating that you can use these interviews in that way if you […]
Inspired by Anesa’s recent blog posts, I have started to write up my thesis! Karen did suggest a couple of months ago that I could bank some sections of my PhD which I was feeling confident about. Accordingly, I’ve written 1000 words on the ethics of online research, which wasn’t too complicated, as I drew […]
Just so that I don’t lose it – Here’s Margaret Debenham on epistolary interviewing: Finally a number of Personal Interviews were undertaken to complete the main study by exploring inferences drawn from the earlier studies through direct interaction with the participants. Eleven students were interviewed in total. This phase of the work was undertaken in […]
People were interested in response rates, what time people responded to the emails, whether people went on to the end with the email. Advantages I hadn’t necessarily spotted before are that you can start the analysis early and that you can use a grounded theory approach.