The research depends upon collaboration between staff and students from two Schools within the University by
undertaking a voluntary extracurricular activity on a regular basis. The fact that the outcome of the project was to be
a performance, i.e. a tangible product, placed great importance on identification of a methodology for the associated
research. Selection of an appropriate methodology was crucial because the researchers were active participants in
the processes involved in producing a performance. In short, they had to ensure the project was a success.
As the researchers were heavily engaged as participants, a variety of largely qualitative methodologies were
considered. These included Grounded Theory, Ethnography and Phenomenology. Grounded Theory was dismissed
as a possible methodology because the degree of social interaction between researcher and University student, and
between researcher and school pupil, would be minimal. Furthermore, any possible data arising from these
interactions would be used to measure, principally, any shift in attitudes of the project’s participants (i.e. University
students or school pupils) towards science and consequently their engagement with it. It is not the intention to allow
theory to emerge from the data.
The research depends upon collaboration between staff and students from two Schools within the University by
undertaking a voluntary extracurricular activity on a regular basis. The fact that the outcome of the project was to be
a performance, i.e. a tangible product, placed great importance on identification of a methodology for the associated
research. Selection of an appropriate methodology was crucial because the researchers were active participants in
the processes involved in producing a performance. In short, they had to ensure the project was a success.
As the researchers were heavily engaged as participants, a variety of largely qualitative methodologies were
considered. These included Grounded Theory, Ethnography and Phenomenology. Grounded Theory was dismissed
as a possible methodology because the degree of social interaction between researcher and University student, and
between researcher and school pupil, would be minimal. Furthermore, any possible data arising from these
interactions would be used to measure, principally, any shift in attitudes of the project’s participants (i.e. University
students or school pupils) towards science and consequently their engagement with it. It is not the intention to allow
theory to emerge from the data.
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