BIO: How have qualitative data processes impacted people in this setting (subjecting them to over-research or invisibility?)

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Angela Okune's picture
July 19, 2019

AO: Rayzberg's article described conversations with research participants which highlighted perceptions that research and development were the same thing or that “research brings development.” One person explained that after the researchers “collect the data, they send it to development, and then development will come”. She notes that "likewise, a village chief gave development as the reason for allowing researchers to conduct surveys in his village." Taking this point further, it is therefore understandable why it might be that when "development" - however it may be imagined by research participants - does not come as expected, they would feel slighted, disappointed, or even angered by researchers (and any future researchers).

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