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Cascading Excellence – putting the Quality back into Qualitative. Tina Berry, Joanna Chrzanowska, Anne Hastings. Danger lies ahead on the qualitative road. Pressure on researchers is undermining research quality and creativity. Online. Cheaper. Process Driven. Internationalisation. Faster.
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Cascading Excellence – putting the Quality back into Qualitative Tina Berry, Joanna Chrzanowska, Anne Hastings
Pressure on researchers is undermining research quality and creativity Online Cheaper Process Driven Internationalisation Faster Mechanical approach Groundhog day
Research is automatised, packaged Craft and skill is being stripped out
Timeto rescue research excellence Excellent practitioners are amongst us and we can learn from them
AQR is committed to Excellence NLP models & systematises excellence
NLP and modelling • NLP • ‘The study of the structure of human experience’ • NLP modelling • structures and strategies that underpin experience • implicit and explicit modeling
The AQR Excellence Project The Exemplars The NLP Modelling The Skills Strategic Management Leadership Implementation
Skills of implementation Open / discursive Q2 Democracy in Practice Q1 Creative Space Freedom to express Let’s hear it from everyone Focus / Content Focus / Strategy Let’s play the game Collaborating to do the job Q3 Structured Group Creativity Q4 Structured Creative Elicitation Framing process
Starting to cascade the knowledge • Feb 2008, ‘Mirror on the Moderator’ training day • Values • Resource states • Demonstrations • Quadrants 1 and 3 • Practising creative elicitation techniques
Reactions to the first training • Opportunity - more self aware • Structured framework • Reassuring • Identify own strengths • Stretch into other quadrants • New tools and techniques • Confidence builder • Become more creative and flexible • Educate clients
Learning transforms who we are and what we do It puts the onus on us to claim permission to be more experimental. Not to ask for it, not to beg for it, but actually to demand it.
The answer is to learn from each other Qual research needs a cultural change: • exchange experience • find novel challenges • experience different ways of working • find inspiring models from other industries / professions • model each other’s work
Learning transforms who we are and what we do Knowledge is power Getting moderation skills ‘in the muscle’ gives us muscle
Continuing Professional Development • NLP training for research moderation has a vital role • NLP is hands on – learn by doing • programmes for all stages • new effective tools of professional excellence from other fields