Fostering Open Qualitative Research - Final Project Report

Fostering cultures of open qualitative research: Final Project Report

This report was created and deposited onto the University of Sheffield Online Research Data repository (ORDA) on 14-Dec-2023 by Dr. Matthew S. Hanchard, Research Associate at the University of Sheffield iHuman Institute.

The report presents findings and recommendations from a project titled ‘Fostering cultures of open qualitative research’ which ran from January 2023 to June 2023. The project was funded with £13,913.85 of Research England monies held internally by the University of Sheffield - as part of their ‘Enhancing Research Cultures’ scheme 2022-2023.

Research within the report aligns with ethical approval granted by the University of Sheffield School of Sociological Studies Research Ethics Committee (ref: 051118) on 23-Jan-2021.This includes due concern for participant anonymity and data management. ORDA has full permission to store and make available datasets and reports from the project for public viewing and reuse on the basis that no commercial gain will be made from reuse. It has been deposited under a CC-BY-NC licence. Overall, the report relies on the below datasets:

Survey Responses:
Hanchard M and San Roman Pineda I (2023) Fostering cultures of open qualitative research: Dataset 1 – Survey Responses. The University of Sheffield. DOI: 10.15131/shef.data.23567250.v1.

Interviews:
Hanchard M and San Roman Pineda I (2023) Fostering cultures of open qualitative research: Dataset 2 – Interview Transcripts. The University of Sheffield. DOI: 10.15131/shef.data.23567223.v2.

Workshop:
Hanchard M and San Roman Pineda I (2023) Fostering cultures of open qualitative research: Dataset 3 – Workshop Transcript. The University of Sheffield. DOI: 10.15131/shef.data.24807753.v1.

The project report covers research undertaken by two staff:

Co-investigator:
Dr. Itzel San Roman Pineda
ORCiD ID: 0000-0002-3785-8057
i.sanromanpineda@sheffield.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Labelled as ‘Researcher 1’ throughout all project datasets.

Principal Investigator (corresponding dataset author):
Dr. Matthew Hanchard
ORCiD ID: 0000-0003-2460-8638
m.s.hanchard@sheffield.ac.uk
Research Associate
iHuman Institute, Social Research Institutes, Faculty of Social Science
Labelled as ‘Researcher 2’ throughout all project datasets.