Reflections from Research Practice

Environmental learning: Reflections on practice, research and theory

Teaching qualitative research methods: Some innovations and reflections on practice

This paper considers some of the problems inherent in teaching qualitative research methods within psychology. It stresses the use of a reflective approach to course design that aims to ‘emancipate’ students in their own study and research, as well as equipping them with a combination of practical and theoretical skills. In addition to a brief description of the course, I describe some innovati...

Collaboration Engineering: Reflections on 15 Years of Research & Practice

Collaboration Engineering (CE) is an approach for the design and deployment of repeatable collaborative work practices that can be executed by practitioners without the ongoing support of external collaboration professionals. Research on CE started in the early 2000s with studies on ways to transfer professional collaboration expertise to novices using a pattern language called thinkLets. Subse...

Participation in perspective: reflections from research projects.

AIM This paper seeks to add to the debate regarding children as researchers by exploring the reality of their participation in research. BACKGROUND As the role children and young people play in knowledge building is recognised, their position as social agents is evolving. This has led to a shift in the ways in which children and young people participate in research, and in particular in their...

GAINING ACCESS FOR RESEARCH Reflections from Experience

This paper reflects on the experiences of facilitating and maintaining qualitative research access into a sample of international hotel groups. The existing research methodology literature tends to simplify the access process by explaining it through a number of stages. The fieldwork experience of the authors suggests that the propositions stated in literature are partly relevant; however, ther...