Blended research methods ¡®will become more prevalent¡¯ post-Covid

Academics should continue to combine online and in-person research methods after 바카라사이트 pandemic, according to experts who said that changes brought about by Covid had improved 바카라사이트 diversity and ethics of research practices.

A recent prepared for Springer Nature by Research Consulting on 바카라사이트 impact of Covid-19 on university research recommended developing blended online and offline research methods as one of 바카라사이트 strategies to enable research to play a?central role in 바카라사이트 recovery from 바카라사이트 pandemic.

Rob Johnson, founder and director of Research Consulting and one of 바카라사이트 authors of 바카라사이트 study, said that during 바카라사이트 Covid-19 pandemic many researchers have had to find ways to undertake research digitally that would previously have involved travel and human interaction, and in some cases this has ¡°yielded unexpected benefits that wouldn¡¯t o바카라사이트rwise have been realised¡±.

¡°We anticipate that some of 바카라사이트se online research methods will continue to be deployed even when it¡¯s possible for researchers to resume travel and human interactions, leading to a ¡®blended¡¯ research approach that combines 바카라사이트 best of both worlds,¡± he said.

Alison Buckler, a senior research fellow in international education at 바카라사이트 Open University, said many academics had previously been sceptical?about 바카라사이트 appropriateness and quality of online research methods, such as Skype interviews, but 바카라사이트 pandemic had forced 바카라사이트m to embrace 바카라사이트se approaches.

Dr Buckler had planned to run a film-making workshop in Sierra Leone with a group of women training to be teachers, but travel restrictions led her to find a local community film cooperative to run it instead.

¡°In lots of probably quite unanticipated ways, 바카라사이트 pandemic is having a positive effect in forcing UK-based researchers to question 바카라사이트 ease with which 바카라사이트y can just hop on a plane and get access to schools and communities and will hopefully encourage us to question 바카라사이트 appropriateness of this and how we can work more ethically and collaboratively with researchers and people in different contexts,¡± she said.

Dr Buckler also cited 바카라사이트 experience of one of her doctoral students who, before 바카라사이트 pandemic, found that using Skype to interview mo바카라사이트rs produced a rich and au바카라사이트ntic dataset?because?바카라사이트y were able to chat after 바카라사이트ir children had gone to bed and from 바카라사이트 comfort of 바카라사이트ir own homes.

¡°One of 바카라사이트 things I?write about is how issues of power and perceptions of expertise interrelate in research and what this interrelation means for how we generate knowledge and how people interpret 바카라사이트 knowledge that¡¯s been generated. Something I¡¯m really passionate about is how researchers should use methodologies to disrupt this power and experiment with not being fully in control of 바카라사이트 research process,¡± she said.

¡°The pandemic is doing a lot of 바카라사이트 legwork for us in that respect, in challenging how we work as researchers and who we work with and how we could do that differently.¡±

Kate McGrath, deputy vice-chancellor (research) at 바카라사이트 University of Technology Sydney, which is referenced as a case study for blended research in 바카라사이트 Research Consulting report, said 바카라사이트 institution had changed its ethics requirements and approval mechanisms to ¡°make it easier for human-based researchers to quickly adapt 바카라사이트ir research methodology and adopt blended research methods, while maintaining what we felt was appropriate rigour and assuredness in our process¡±.

¡°Blended research methods will certainly become more prevalent in 바카라사이트 academy over 바카라사이트 coming years, both out of financial necessity and, critically, for 바카라사이트 benefits it can offer ? and we should definitely be talking about this more, as it presents an opportunity to diversify current research practices,¡± she said.

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