An Interview with Dr. Paul Gorman on Qualitative Research Proposals
When writing a research proposal, there may be no better advantage than knowing what the reviewers are thinking as they review your proposal. Fortunately, I was able to pick the brain of one such reviewer: Paul Gorman, MD, Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Gorman has extensive experience …
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Telling Your Nonprofit’s Story
Many nonprofits share the same dilemma: their best program outcomes are the hardest to measure. It’s true that traditional program evaluations generate impressive numbers and statistics. But the outcomes that make our eyes well up or our skin break out in goose-bumps can never be conveyed in a bar graph or pie chart. Though essential to assessing a program’s effectiveness, …
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Emergent Focus Group Design
When we think about doing a focus group study we usually design the study, collect the data, and do the analysis—in that order. We recruit all of the participants with the same pre-designed criteria, ask them the same set of questions, and produce one big report at the end. This approach works well in most cases, especially when studying well-defined …
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