Questionnaires – Simple, easy, cheap and effective. They can bring a lot of information on the public quickly, however it will be difficult to gain the amount of detail that you would in a personal interview. It seems unlikely that I will be using many in my project.
Interviewing by Email/ In Person – These are effective ways of gaining information. Personal interviews can be difficult to set up as the expert may have a busy schedule, so in that way email is better. On the other hand the information you can gain from an email is more limited as you can’t judge their reaction or follow up questions as effectively. Interviewing will be very useful for me as I will need to talk to specialists in the field to get the latest information.
Experiments – If applicable these can be a great way to conduct research as you can design it to fit exactly with your question. I may be able to do an experiment using a clinostat as I wrote in a previous post.
Ethnography – Gaining knowledge about a culture through observation, surveys, interviews and living with the ethnic group. This can give you a large amount of information but would take a long time to conduct. Let’s just say it’s unlikely that I will be using it.
Case studies – Studying previous events can be a very good way to extract information about a topic. I might be able to look at past or even future experiments conducted by a Space Agency.
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