Hi Gemma,
Just a thought, have you tried posting about it on social networking websites? This can often promote a snowball effect. It worked well with a questionnaire my supervisor ran last year (I think he has in the region of 500 respondants), although his was actually regarding social networking websites, so it may not be appropriate for you. You haven't said which area you are in, if it is something like a health based questionnaire you could try contacting the administrators of general health support groups and asking them for permission to post an advert etc.
For some reason, people *love* filling in online questionnaires - if you were to go down the social networking sites route, after the respondants had completed your questionnaire you could provide then with a piece of html that links to your questionnaire site to allow them to paste into their profiles (if they wish). This could then advertise the study to their online contacts and direct them back to your site.
Sue
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Sue Jamison-Powell
PhD Researcher
DTESS Research Group /
Brain Behaviour and Cognition Group
Psychology Department
Sheffield Hallam University
The Lodge
Collegiate Campus
S10 2BP
Tel: (0114) 225 5467
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From: Research of postgraduate psychologists. on behalf of Gemma Warren
Sent: Thu 07/08/2008 17:03
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Subject: Online research help
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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