Hello everybody,
I didn't expect to find myself back here with you but I'm still supervising a few PhD students to completion and one of them has an interesting question about methods, which challenges some of my own ideas so I'm looking for any relevant experience or knowledge out there.
It's about a practical method that I've used myself on several projects. I've never had to justify it particularly and it's always seemed self evidently useful, but my student rightly points out that he'll need more backup than that for a thesis and neither he nor I can track down any published descriptions of similar work. I'm quite sure we are just not looking hard enough or intelligently enough and some of you will have some good ideas.
When we have video material from an activity, eg a group discussion or some kind of practical workshop, I've found it very useful to convene a small group of people with relevant experience to watch the material as a group and discuss what they observe. This often throws up useful new insights or at least confirms, questions or helps to focus my/our own analysis of the material.
In the present case the researcher was exploring the value of mockups in particular kinds of collaboration. He conducted some codesign workshops where he took the part of the designer/facilitator working with an expert surgeon to explore new designs of surgical simulators (anatomical models) through the use of mockups. Subsequently he convened a group of experienced designers to view the video material and recorded their reactions and observations to help identify key events and instances of "designerly" thinking by the participants. He has used the expert discussion (also on video) as another layer in his analysis of the original video, video squared like this is useful as the two have their event timings in sync.
He also reviewed the video with the workshop participants but that's not particularly relevant to my question.
So can anybody point to any published discussion of similar or relevant "expert review" in the context of qualitative research?
Thanks and best wishes from sunny Sheffield
Chris
.........................Chris RustDriver, Nether Edge [log in to unmask]
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