Your second assignment in this course is to help a group of beginner researchers develop their
research project from an initial research topic and research questions, with particular attention to
plans for data collection. Your assignment should be 2,000 words ±10%. The word count excludes
the list of references at the end of the document. In-text citations are included in the word count.
The main body of the text should be in 12pt Arial or Times New Roman with 1.5 or double line
spacing. Pages should be numbered.
You will need to cite and reference the work and ideas of others, and may need to quote directly – it
is your responsibility to do this correctly and accurately, in the Harvard style.
The scenario
Three keen industry practitioners want to understand more about work and employment in
particular settings, and although they’ve studied the topic well, they’ve never actually ‘done’
empirical research before. These novice researchers have heard that you’ve recently been studying
research methods, and so have come to you for advice on appropriate tools and techniques for
collecting data, alongside some suggestions on how that data might be analysed.
Following some initial discussions and reading, together you produce the following broad research
topic:
How do disabled accounting professionals perceive their work and how are disabled accounting
professionals perceived within the accounting profession?
After further reviewing the literature, you’ve helped to develop this broad topic into two specific
research questions:
What are the experiences of disabled accounting professionals working in Scotland?
What are the attitudes towards disabled accounting professionals at accounting firms in Scotland?
You suggest that that the first question would lend itself to the collection and analysis of qualitative
data, while the second would lend itself to the collection and analysis of quantitative data. The
researchers are keen to do both at the same time, which you characterise as a convergent parallel
design.
Your task is to provide informed guidance on suitable approaches to collecting (and to a lesser
extent analysing) both forms of data, with clear justifications drawn from a range of empirical and
non-empirical resources. This guidance is in the form of a report, which should be well-referenced.
The following prompts are designed to help get you writing:
Data collection tools and techniques
What do you think would be an appropriate approach to collecting useful qualitative data on this
topic? Why? Can you give examples of this approach from relevant good quality peer-reviewed
published empirical research?
What do you think would be an appropriate approach to collecting useful quantitative data on this
topic? Why? Can you give examples of this approach from relevant good quality peer-reviewed
published empirical research?
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