Research Guides: GBST 151: Global Questions and Frameworks: Preparing for Fieldwork

Institutional Review Board

An Instituitional Review Board (IRB review is a common academic practice. Comprised of a committee of people, the IRB's purpose is to oversee and monitor the ethics of your project and ensure that no physical or emotional harm can be done to living subjects. An IRB application is a formal way of laying out how you are going to perform your fieldwork, what information you are going to collect, and how you are going to store information to protect your subjects.

Research Methodologies

Collecting Qualitative Data by Virginia Braun (Editor); Victoria Clarke (Editor); Debra Gray (Editor)
ISBN: 1316849538

Publication Date: 2016

Is there more to qualitative data collection than face-to-face interviews? Answering with a resounding 'yes', this book introduces the reader to a wide array of techniques for collecting qualitative data in the social sciences. Collecting Qualitative Data offers a practical and accessible guide to textual, media and virtual methods currently under-utilised within qualitative research. Contributors from a range of disciplines share their experiences of implementing a particular technique, provide step-by-step guidance to using that approach, and highlight both the potential and pitfalls.
The Science and Art of Interviewing by Kathleen Gerson; Sarah Damaske
ISBN: 9780199324286

Publication Date: 2020

Qualitative interviewing is among the most widely used methods in the social sciences, but it is arguably the least understood. In The Science and Art of Interviewing, Kathleen Gerson and Sarah Damaske offer clear, theoretically informed and empirically rich strategies for conducting interview studies.