The paper discusses the potential of applying repertory grid techniques in response to the introduction of the ‘Product and Applications’ and ‘Quality’ programmes of study in the new national curriculum for design and technology. The paper draws upon research carried out as part of a series of pilot studies carried out in initial teacher education workshops during the past year. This is an ongo...

Although effective project management is critical to the success of information technology (IT) projects, little empirical research has investigated skill requirements for IT project managers (PMs). This study addressed this gap by asking 19 practicing IT PMs to describe the skills that successful IT PMs exhibit. A semi-structured interview method known as the repertory grid (RepGrid) technique...

The ‘theorise-inquire’ technique is described, which supports the testing of both experts’ hunches and the quality of data sources. This technique is useful for the identification of data sources and data gaps by domain experts. We describe and illustrate the use of group contrasts, an analysis technique that allows an expert to explore and interpret repertory grids interactively to find signif...

This work provides an update to the Erasmus Plus TEALEAF project. The outcomes of a week-long EU-funded/Irish Government-recognized teacher course in July 2016 is described within the context of a qualitative small-scale study investigating teachers’ progress in the course. The explicit aim of the teacher course was to equip a diverse group of teachers with the initial tools to work to produce ...

The success of Information Systems (IS) projects is of great relevance in IS research and practice. However, scholars barely agree on a definite set of IS project success factors. In order to gain insights into such success factors, we conducted an empirical qualitative study. We interviewed eleven experienced project managers concerning the factors which have influenced the success of their IS...

Within the event management literature relating to network development and festival sustainability there is a paucity of research that analyzes the perception of festival sustainability by festival leaders. After an initial review of the context of sustainability, network theory, and an identification of the changing set of competencies for effective leadership, an exploratory and explanatory i...

Motivational aspects of product use have recently attracted an increasing interest in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. This paper presents a study that explored the discrepancies between designers’ and users’ perceptions as antecedents of failures in motivating use. The study corroborates prior findings suggesting that designers often fall short in accounting for users’ views on the pro...

This paper develops an experimental approach to understanding how construction workers modify their risk taking behaviour when safety schemes are implemented. The study takes a qualitative approach using (1) repertory grid techniques to map attitudinal change and; (2) navigable movies to reproduce the experience of surrogate travel. Hazard categories emerged from the data to produce a framework...

Recording and reproduction systems are becoming capahave asked subjects to grade or rank relatively vague ble of increasingly greater sophistication in the way they expressions such as 'spaciousness', 'sense of space', represent the spatial features of sound. There arises a 'sound stage' or 'spatial impression', as reviewed in pressing need to develop advanced subjective testing Rumsey [1]. The...