Can't express how happy I am that the school is opening on Friday. It really is challenging to concentrate when a kid is at home !

Yeah, I am very positive these days. Had a feedback for chapter 7 as well. It seems I am on the right track now. Re-working on chapter 9 & 10 these days which I am going to submit in a month time. By that time, my all 5 analysis chapters will be complete. My sups are very supportive...that is the only thing which keeps me going. I hope you will get the feedback for your draft soon.

Hi Cindrella,

Thanks. That sounds great...you are doing good. I had a sup meeting today for the 2nd analysis chapter. I got nice feedback on it. One of my sup said that I have matured (in terms of analysis) a lot from the last meeting which was a month back. From tomorrow, I am starting to restructure/rewrite next two chapters which are due in a month of time. I will be then be done with 5 analysis chapters !

Thanks Cindrella for a positive note. Indeed, there is no way out other than think positive and keep on working :)

Hi all,

After restructuring/rewriting 2 analysis chapters, I feel drained for the two other chapters...looks like I am losing motivation again ! I have been working on the 3rd analysis chapter but finding hard deleting almost all what I have written so far and completely creating a new looks for it. Not matter what, I have been playing around the data and progressing slooooowly.

Hi Determined_daisy, Nice to hear from you. I submitted chapter 7 the day before y'day and feeling relieved. In the mean time had feedback for chapter 8. Very happy to see sups pleased with my analysis this time. Now chapters 9 & 10 to restructure/rewrite. Hoping to finish in three weeks time. When r u expecting to get feedback? Hope, sups won't take long time.

Hi, I started in the same time as yrs and planning to submit by the end of Dec. Hope, I can make it !

I did 8 FGDs, participants ranged from 8-12 in a group - rural, urban and specialized groups. It was not easy handling different groups in different locations. Regular follow ups is very important. I started planning for FGDs 3 months ahead of the actual time and completed all 8 groups in 10 days as every single day I had one discussion in different locations - city, villages. It depends upon the type of research you are conducting. It is always better to try to get hold of a strong gatekeeper even though you know the participants individually. Topic guide, information sheets, questionnaire were made ready around 2 months ahead, sent invitation a month ahead and followed up and reminder sent continuously despite having strong gatekeepers for all 8 groups. The most challenging part in FGD is having all people in one place. I always feared that the participants won't turn up so sent invitations to around 15 people so that I had a balance of 8-12 as many did not turn up even though confirmed earlier. Having a good recorder is very important as transcribing FGDs are more problematic than interviews since many people talk at the same time in many instances. Hope it helps. Here are some of the useful references:

Cronin, A. (2008). Focus Groups. In N. Gilbert (Ed.), Researching Social Life (3rd ed., pp. 226-244). Los Angeles. London. New Delhi. Singapore: SAGE.


Macnaghten, P., & Myers, G. (2004). Focus Groups. In C. Seale, G. Gobo, J. F. Gubrium & D. Silverman (Eds.), Qualitative Research Practice (pp. 65-79). London.Thousand Oaks. New Delhi: SAGE.

Tonkiss, F. (2004). Using Focus Groups. In C. Seale (Ed.), Researching Society and Culture (2nd ed., pp. 193-206). London. Thousand Oaks. New Delhi: Sage Publications.

Bloor, M., Frankland, J., Thomas, M., & Robson, K. (2001). Focus Groups in Social Research. London. Thousand Oaks. New Delhi: Sage Publications.

Great news, congratulations Dr. Keenbean !

what kind of information? I did FGDs, it would be easy to answer if there is a specific question ! SS

Thanks Sneaks for the info. I can understand...we are going through the same phase. From the way I am getting responses, I can predict a huge change in the entire draft too. :-( Hope, the things will get sorted out soon...

Hi Sneaks, just wondering if yr supervisors have given feedback on the individual chapters earlier. Since I am also completely restructuring/re-writing my 4 analysis chapters (I handed in at different times) I am bit more curious. Just hoping that I won't be asked to re-write once I submit the full draft. I was really frustrated with their feedback earlier but today they gave feedback on one of the re-written chapters and said that they liked the change/quality/standard now. This definitely gives hope for the rest 3 analysis chapters...but sometimes I feel I will never get to the end...my supervisors too like to change everything and sometimes I just get stuck in the midst of two supervisors' contrasting comments !

I remember it was you who suggested me to use 'Transcription Buddy' and it made my life a lot easier. Thanks Sneaks once again :)

I used 'transcription buddy'. You can download from http://www.download.com. Search 'transcription buddy' in there. After you download, it will give you a free 30 day trial. Uninstall it once the trial finishes and repeat the process afterwards to install again. I got the tips from this forum and found this very useful !

Hi,

Have you got your thesis submitted? My work is progressing. Submitting today chapter 8 finally, ahead of planned date :) From tomorrow, reworking on chapter 7 starts ! I got to restructure it within 10 days. Looks like I can do it as I did for chapter 8. Hmm...I can see my thesis progressing ! Swetch