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How to commission qualitative research and evaluation (02 Nov 15)

Ten questions to ask your prospective qualitative researcher to assess whether they know what they are doing


Commissioning research is a tricky business at the best of times. You only have one chance to get it right. And this is even more so with qualitative research.

That’s because how good your qualitative research is depends completely and utterly on the skills, abilities and personality of the researcher. In qualitative research they say that "the researcher is the i…

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