At the Advance HE Surveys and Insights Conference 2021, Alan Donnelly and Caroline Heaton led a workshop that was based on their work of applying cognitive interviewing techniques to examine students’ interpretations of, and responses to, items in the development of the Module Evaluation Questionnaire used at Sheffield Hallam University. Cognitive interviewing refers to a set of techniques used to assess the ways in which individuals mentally respond to survey questions.
Liz Austen from STEER presented the various ways that student voice is researched in Higher Education, before providing examples of the digital storytelling method. Stories which were produced as part of a project with the Yorkshire Universities group were shown and discussed, alongside the ethical dimensions of the narrative process...
I have always been interested in researching marginalised and hidden populations, especially individuals or groups whose voices are not heard or differ from normalised discourses. This comes from my background in criminal justice and researching how...