Social work Presentation
Collaborative autoethnography for eliciting and understanding the lived experience of social work placement
Gant, V., Cheatham, L., Di Vito, H., Offei, E., Williams, G., & Yatosenge, N. (2019). Social work through collaborative autoethnography. Social Work Education, 1-14.
1. Why does the issue matter to social work, social workers, or service users?
2. What methodology are used in this research
3. Detail research objectives or aims
4. Is the research design exploratory, descriptive, experimental, mixed method design, etc. and does it alignment with the objectives or aims of the research? Define Exploratory method and its strength and limitation in this case
5. What Sampling and recruitment strategies were employed and the impact of these on the representativeness and/or generalizability of the findings. What impacts does this sampling method have on the representativeness and generalisability of the findings and what alternative is there to this sampling method.
6.Write on the data collection method(s) employed (e.g. interviews, focus groups, questionnaires, etc. and the impact these have on the relevance or validity of the conclusions drawn (including strengths and limitations of the methods)
7. Ethical issues raised by the study methodology and the extent to which these are adequately addressed (with reference to specific principles of research ethics)
8. A reflection and application, inclusive of an overview of the key findings of the research and how they might inform social work knowledge and/or practice.
9. What alternative approaches (different sampling, data collection or analysis methods) to pursuing the research, and how this could provide a different understanding of the issue