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Improvement researchers face many demanding situations in generating powerful and persuasive analyses, frequently inside a quick time frame. This edited quantity tackles those demanding situations head-on, utilizing examples from different fields to supply useful suggestions to investigate manufacturers and clients.
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We worked towards creating space for conversations in order to understand needs and experiences as expressed by people not heard or listened to. “Space” is here not seen as geographical but as a relationship, an “affective space” (Jensen 2012) where there is trust and empathy and the individuals can express mutual care. 1 Reflections from the field – building rapport The team’s arrival was carefully prepared for by visits from one of our team members. He tried to ascertain that the chosen host households,1 neighbours, and key individuals in the community had been informed about the intention of our visits, and had had the chance to ask questions and give consent.
Cook and Kothari 2001; Hickey and Mohan 2004) these accounts primarily concern the values underpinning and processes within development interventions, and offer less reflection on research methodology and the experience from a researcher’s point of view. A related conceptual shift in development studies towards seeing people living in poverty as active agents has resulted in methodologies that seek more subjective descriptions to complement objective ones produced by the researcher (Hulme 2004).