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HDR STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE

This study explores the behavior of animal owners in bushfires and aims to understand their perceptions using an expansion of Protection Motivation Theory. The research aims to shape policy for disaster preparedness and response.

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HDR STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE

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  1. HDR STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE Western Sydney University 22 September 2016 Rachel Westcott

  2. DON’T JUST DO SOMETHING – STAND THERE!1 EMERGENCY RESPONDERS’ PERI-INCIDENT PERCEPTIONS OF ANIMAL OWNERS IN BUSHFIRE 1. Robert Kearney, OAM, JP. Vietnam veteran, military historian, author and consultant trainer to the South Australian Country Fire Service.

  3. BACKGROUND and CONTEXT • Bushfires are increasing due to climate change • Aglobally significant natural hazard threat • Awareness-preparedness gap is too wide • New ways to reduce the gap • For this reason a greater knowledge-base is urgently needed to shape policy for disaster preparedness and response (Gibbs et al 2015)

  4. THIS STUDY: the overall data corpus: • Two groups – animal owners & emergency responders • To understand the behaviour of animal owners in bushfire by exploring an expansion of Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) (Rogers 1975) • Knowledge adaptive action, translate to other at-risk groups • Ultimately to save human life

  5. Dad runs back into burning house to save cat, doesn’t save the photo albums or the wedding dress or the….saves the cat. I mean, well, the cat’s gone out the laundry window. Dad dies. Lose the dad. Lose the house. Cat’s fine, but you’ve lost everything. People will make very emotionally based, not necessarily the safest, decisions based on their animals. Participant Jayne, responder interviews 2015

  6. EXPANSION OF PMT • 1975-2016 • Self- and other-directed applications in the health sector • The environmental domain • Slow-onset risk • Natural hazards • Expansion: • Trust • Response choices • Complexity of the social microclimate After Maddux and Rogers (1983) and Grothmann and Reusswig(2006)

  7. The data set used for today’s discussion: Six interviews and three focus group discussions Thematic Analysis (TA) (Braun and Clarke 2006, 2013)

  8. Braun and Clarke 2006 p 81 ….it is important that the theoretical position of a thematic analysis is made clear, as this is all too often left unspoken….any theoretical framework carries with it a number of assumptions about the nature of the data….in terms of the ‘the world’, ‘reality’, and so forth. A good thematic analysis will make this transparent.

  9. Braun and Clarke 2006, p 82 Thematic analysis involves a number of choices which are often not made explicit (or are certainly typically not discussed in the method section of papers), but which need explicitly to be considered and discussed.

  10. THANKYOU! Shane Jaynie

  11. If you are an able bodied person on your own with one cat, then it’s simple – have a backpack ready, put the cat in a carrier and you’re away in about 30 seconds. If you’re a single mum with an autistic child and an assistance dog, and you have Nanna on Tuesdays and you have six chooks, two ponies, three dogs and goldfish, you’re better of starting in about September. Participant Jayne, responder interviews 2015.

  12. THIS STUDY: the overall data corpus: Paper 1 - Proposal to expand Protection Motivation Theory - discussion and literature review Paper 2 – Responders’ perceptions Paper 3 - Preparedness and policy Paper 4 - The aetiology of decision making Then: Phase 2 – Survey of primary producers  Paper 5 Final draft of survey close to completion

  13. Positionality statement Choice of research site and why Choice of data analysis and why TA is a flexible qualitative method not constrained by theory Reasons for engaging in a particular research topic Epistemological and ontological position critical realist ontology (i.e. that knowledge might make a difference and have practical applications) contextualist, experiential epistemology Situationalist orientation – the needs of the study should govern a philosophical paradigm. Pragmatic approach – critique and action (Cornish 2009) Sandelowski (2000) identifies qualitative description Savin-Baden and Major (2013) pragmatic qualitative research – more analytic Researcher relationship with participants Lincoln and Guba (1986) describe the researcher-participant relationship as “one of respectful negotiation, joint control and reciprocal learning” Flexible approach to the interview guide (Taylor and Ussher 2000) The processes to extract detailed experiential material from the data to inform the research largely, but not entirely inductive, and largely, but not entirely contextualist. Data driven, inductive TA Recursive process of data analysis CAQDAS software, NVivo11, parallel Excel spreadsheet, thematic map

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