Doing Development Research

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PART ONE: INTRODUCTION The Raison d'etre of Doing Development Research PART TWO: STRATEGIC ISSUES IN PLANNING SOUND RESEARCH Doing Fieldwork in Developing Countries - Tony Binns Planning and Logistics Ethical Practices in Doing Development Research - Lynne Brydon Working in Different Cultures - Caesar R A Apentiik and Jane L Parpart Issues of Race, Ethnicity and Identity Women, Men and Fieldwork - Janet Henshall Momsen Gender Relations and Power Structures Working with Children in Development - Lorraine van Blerk Collecting Sensitive and Contentious Information - Margaret E Harrison Dealing with Conflicts and Emergency Situations - Morten Boas, Kathleen M Jennings and Timothy M Shaw Working with Partners - Bill Gould Educational Institutions Working with Partners - Mansoor Ali and Andrew Cotton Government Ministries Working with Partners - Claire Mercer NGOs and CBOs Doing Development Studies 'At Home' - Tim Unwin PART THREE: INFORMATION AND DATA COLLECTION METHODS METHODS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH AND ASSOCIATED FORMS OF ANALYSIS Quantitative, Qualitative or Participatory - Linda Mayoux Which Method, for What and When? Field Surveys and Inventories - David Barker Interviewing - Katie Willis Focus Groups - Sally Lloyd-Evans Your Questions Answered: Conducting Questionnnaire Surveys - David Simon Lost in Translation? The Use of Interpreters in Fieldwork - Janet Bujra Ethnographic and Participant Observation - Jan Kees van Donge Participatory Methods and Approaches - Harriot Beazley and Judith Ennew Tackling the Two Tyrannies Diaries and Case Studies - JoAnn McGregor USING EXISTING KNOWLEDGE AND RECORDS Literature Reviews and Bibliographic Searches - Paula Meth and Glyn Williams Using the Indigenous Local Knowledge and Literature - Cathy McIlwaine Using Images, Films and Photography - Cheryl McEwan Using Archives - Michael Jennings Remote Sensing, GIS and Ground Truthing - Denis Conway and Shanon Donnelly The Importance of Census and Other Secondary Data in Development Studies - Allan M Findlay Using the World Wide Web for Development Research - Emma Mawdsley Data from International Agencies - Jonathan Rigg DISSEMINATING FINDINGS/RESEARCH Writing an Effective Research Report or Dissertation - Steve Morse How is Research Communicated Professionally? - Sally Gainsbury and Cheryl Brown

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