Hi Gemma,
Recuiting participants into online studies can be difficult. You could try contacting newspapers to ask if they will add a request for participants for you (along with the link to your study). However, the response rate from this can be quite low (e.g., 1 newspaper advert with an auidence of 40,000 can recruit only 15 people). Thus, you would need to contact a large number of newspapers (spread across the UK from different geographical locations) to gain even 100 participants.
Kathryn
Dr. Kathryn Gardner
School of Psychology
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University of Central Lancashire
Preston, UK
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>>> Gemma Warren <[log in to unmask]> 07/08/08 5:03 PM >>>
Dear all
As part of my PhD research, I'm currently trying to recruit a medium
sized community sample of, preferable, UK/European based participants to
complete an online questionnaire. This research started off ok, I
managed to recruit quite a few people through mailing lists/forums I
frequent, but this only gave me about half the number I needed. I have
put my study on the various web-based experiment sites, but with little
response thus far.
Does anyone have any tips for recruiting decent sized, and preferably
non-student, community samples over the internet?
Thank you
Gemma Warren
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Department of Psychology
University of York
York
YO10 5DD
01904 432867
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