Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
This manual is the result of the work undertaken by a range of people- it has evolved as a result of countless e-mail exchanges, work put in over long office hours and late nights, summer days spent in rooms with no air conditioning and the benefit of having been rolled out in four countries, across two continents. We would like to thank the many workshop participants in India, Kenya, Ghana and Pakistan (the sequence in which this training was undertaken), who engaged with us, and over the course of the workshops shared our zeal for qualitative research, but more importantly, challenged us to articulate our assumptions about research and reflect on our skills.
In India we worked with the team at Collaborative Research and Dissemination (CORD) led by Claire Noronha, in Kenya we worked with colleagues at Kenyatta University, led by Dr. Fatuma Chege. In Ghana the team at Associates for Change was led by Dr. Leslie Casley-Hayford and in Pakistan Feyza Bhatti led the team at the Mahbub Ul Haq Human Development Centre (MHHDC, http://www.mhhdc.org). The manual has also benefited from a training programme run for SAHAYOG and the Centre for Health and Social Justice.
We would also like to thank members of the RECOUP teams at the University of Cambridge: Professor Madeleine Arnot played a major role in initiating the training manual and it has benefited greatly from her insights and experience, Dr. Shailaja Fennell was a key member of the team, especially in Ghana and Kenya; Professor Christopher Colclough has provided overall support and guidance. At the University of Edinburgh: Professor Patricia Jeffery helped particularly in the trainings carried out in India.
Singal, N., and Jeffery, R. (2008). Qualitative Research Skills Workshop: A Facilitator's Reference Manual, http://oer.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/RECOUP, Cambridge: RECOUP (Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty, http://recoup.educ.cam.ac.uk/). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. (original page)
