Dear All,
Just to say that - as one of the people involved in writing the history
of UK CP chapter - that I have reservations about the list being used in
the way suggested myself. There has been some email discussion between
the authors. Three of the reasons I gave to the other authors about not
using the list were as follows (some bits are deleted):
"1. I don't like questionnaires as a way of doing research. I think they
are problematic as a method for all but the most routine forms of data
collection (demographic etc) and discourage my students from using them.
Even if one accepts the assumptions upon which questionnaire research is
done (and I don't accept many of them) there will be population and
sampling problems here (the UK CP list serve is a very unsatisfactory
basis for a trawl re understanding of the history of CP and the actual
responders to an e-survey will be even less satisfactory). There are
also problems re items as far as survey design is concerned: portmanteau
questions which ask several questions in one are not recommended,
questions that embody assumptions with which we let alone the
respondents might disagree e.g. that there was little development in CP
in the 60s-80s; that there is a recent rise in interest in CP in the UK
etc should be avoided etc. The questions asked are a subset of many
which could have been asked. The questions don't appear to be based on
qualitative pilot work but to be arbitrarily selected.
2. I am uncomfortable with the CommunityPsychologyUK list serve being
used for mailing surveys and questionnaires. I would be unhappy both as
a list user and as a list minder if the list was used by others as a
quick and easy way of gathering research data. I would find it intrusive
if I started receiving surveys circulated by the list but if I do it I
could not complain if others did. I am co-list-manager with Rebekah
Pratt - at the very least I would want to consult Rebekah before the
list were used in the proposed way.
3. I did not like the cold contact way in which I was approached
recently by email by (deleted) to participate in (deleted's) research by
email and I declined to do so. I thought it was too demanding a task. I
would be unhappy now asking (deleted) and others to participate in mine.
(deleted)
All in all I am opposed to the questionnaire proposal, I am afraid. I
think a much more acceptable way to move forward in all sorts of ways
would be to start off and maintain a discussion on the list about the
history of CP in the UK, as we started recently about Power and
Prilleltensky. We could start that discussion and conduct it between
ourselves at first trying to tempt others to join in because interested.
We could be upfront with people about the purposes of this re the
chapter and say that we intend to do some qualitative analysis on the
material discussed unless people object. We could offer to credit the
names of the people who contribute in the chapter and the list itself.
This would be much more in the spirit of the list, more participatory,
more inclusive and could be interesting for list members."
Mark replied with counter-arguments but as I have not asked for or
received permission to share those I leave it up to you, Mark, to share
those or not as you see fit
I hope this sort of examination of issues is interesting to at least
some list members - the nitty gritty of how we use this list do seems to
me fundamental
Warm wishes to all for the national holidays almost upon us
David
David Fryer
Community Psychology Group
University of Stirling
FK9 4LA
Scotland
+44 (0) 1786 467650 (tel)
+44 (0) 1786 467641 (fax)
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Subject: Re: History project
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Fine by me
Teresa Hagan
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Sent: 16 December 2004 18:59
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Subject: History project
Dear list subscribers
Stephanie Reich, Manuel Reimer and Isaac Prileltensky are editing
a book on the history of community psychology. This is attempting
to provide an international perspective. Carolyn Kagan, Stephanie
Boyle, Carl Harris, David Fryer and myself are working on the chapter on
CP in Britain. We'd like to use this list to distribute a short
questionnairre - with open ended questions, to gather some wider
perspectives on this. Could you let us know (by the end of Monday) if
anyone has any serious objections to us doing this? There don't appear
to be any groundrules for this list (or maybe I've missed them), so
while maybe anything goes, we should really check with you all first.
Many thanks Mark
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