Week 47: Methodological amendments

I made some methodological amendments to my research. I had planned to conduct interviews and focus groups for qualitative data collection, but decided not to include focus groups and to devote my fieldwork to observing and recording real-life clinical consultations. The main reason for this amendment is that my fieldwork must align with my participants’ professional timetables. My supervisors were understanding and commented that this adjustment was “sensible”.

This week, I spent about 4 hours a day writing my thesis, and this routine has proved effective. I used the remaining time to finalise updates to the Information Statement and Consent Form for my research participants and to translate these documents into Japanese. On Friday, I asked a professional translator to review my Japanese translations, which will be included in my thesis as part of the translation procedures.