This is my group topic

As a group, we are gathering and researching recent and past data from the two years of the effects that Covid-19 had on frontline nurses around the world.

A) Title of your Study: State your Topic/Research Question so your reviewer will know the topic.

B) A justification of the approach?

• What method is most suitable for your research question?
• Justify why interviews are appropriate method?
• You MUST cite from the text (Marvasti) and another peer-reviewed article in this section to support why interviews are a useful technique.

C) A sample of research design?

• Here, Include a few items from your instruments/interview schedule aka interview guide/interview questionnaire to illustrate your narrative (ie.1-3 illustrative questions). Use the most important questions that pertain to the study as a sample for this.

D) Specify/data-collection methods?

• Here, briefly, describe the study participants you seek to enroll for your study, e.g. sex, age-range, why are were ideal for the study etc. For example, if you are interested in studying single parents and parenting during pandemic, specify how many single parents you will interview, what are their characteristics in terms of age, gender etc that are important to the study. Would you like to interview 5 males and 5 females, or all 10 females - that is upto you as a researcher but you need specify and say why.
• write how you will find/recruit your participants? (typically, you can say I will recruit them by posting flyers in schools/communities/neighbors, or by contacting friends and family members known to me or by accessing a community organization etc etc - basically, whatever makes most sense for your topic)
• Since you are proposing to do interviews, then how long will the interviews be? Here, make sure you replicate what you have said in the consent form.
• Where will you conduct them ie Location- was it a caf?park? home? - why these locations and how will it impact the quality of the interview? (for example. coffee houses while comfortable and be considered safe if you are meeting strangers can also be very loud, whereas if it were a park, you would have open air in this time of pandemic OR you could say all interviews will be via zoom because of the pandemic.. ..in any case, justify the place you select as you deem fit)

E) Reflect on your positionality?

• In what ways were you an insider and in what ways are you an outsider? What kind of biases impacted the process and outcome of the data collected?

reference :

Marvasti, Amir B. (2004). Qualitative Research in Sociology (Introducing Qualitative Methods series). London: SAGE Publications.