How to Conduct Ethnographic Research

On How to Conduct Experimental Research with Self-Motivated Agents

We argue that experimental methodologies are harder to apply when self-motivated agents are involved, especially when the issue of choice gains its due relevance in their model. We use a choice-oriented agent architecture to illustrate a means of bridging the distance between the observer and the actors of an experiment. Traditional experimentation has to give way to exploratory simulation, to ...

How to Conduct Science Experiments

Since before the time of the Ancient Greeks, thousands of years ago, people have tried to find out more about the world around them, wondering how and why things work. Scientists come up with many great ideas to show how things work, but for an idea to become accepted, it has to be tested [1]. The tool scientists use to test their theories is called the scientific method [2]. Whether you are st...

An ethnographic study of group decision making to understand and improve how trial steering committees contribute to trial conduct

Methods Using ethnographic methods, we are exploring how TSCs make decisions regarding trial conduct in a purposive sample of trials across registered trials units in the UK, selected to represent a range of trial designs, interventions and oversight structures. Non-participatory observation of TSCs will be triangulated by follow-up interviews with committee members and evaluations of trial doc...

How to conduct research on burnout: advantages and disadvantages of a unidimensional approach in burnout research.

When conducting research on burnout, it may be difficult to decide whether one should report results separately for each burnout dimension or whether one should combine the dimensions. Although the multidimensionality of the burnout concept is widely acknowledged, for research purposes it is sometimes convenient to regard burnout as a unidimensional construct. This article deals with the questi...

How to conduct a literature search.