March 2013 – Recruiting and Securing Spaces for Discussion Groups
In general, recruiting involves a lot of flyering, emailing, calling, face-to-face contact, follow-up, and reminders. For this project, recruiting for some of the groups has been done mainly via email and phone because community gatekeepers, or liaisons, provided us with lists of people they know personally who would be potentially interested in participating. However, we are also doing the more challenging type of recruiting which involves not having a gatekeeper and requires hitting the pavement to find and talk to potential participants.
Getting ready for multiple discussion groups throughout the county also requires securing spaces for each one. When doing this we always keep in mind times and locations that are best for the participants. Additional considerations for securing a space: participant comfort and safety, cost, audio-visual capabilities, room set-up, parking, distance to public transportation, and ease of communication with the person that oversees that space.

February 2013 – Field Investigation
October 2012 – Conduct Focus Groups

Focus group room set-up at a local community center. For this project we held the focus groups at community locations most convenient to the different groups we were targeting.

Depending on our client and research protocols, we audio record sessions and then later transcribe them (and translate, if needed). We always have two recorders with microphones running.

Gift card incentives help to ensure participation.
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