Selecting Participants Sample Clauses
Selecting Participants. There were 24 people in the 2016 RIS cohort at the time that I conducted the interviews. I decided to interview 12 participants as this would represent half the cohort. I invited 14 participants to take part, and I selected a balance of men and women and various subjects. The 2016 cohort was made up of predominantly Maths and Physics teachers, because as RIS is the vehicle for the Maths and Physics Chairs programme, the focus was on recruiting Maths and Physics teachers. There was a Biology specialist and an English specialist in the 2016 cohort from 2018-2019, and all the other participants taught Maths or Physics. I invited participants who were based in different parts of the country to ensure that there was a good geographical spread. 13 participants responded and one did not reply. I selected 12 based on ensuring a balance of different regions. There were 6 men and 6 women. Of the participants that I interviewed, 1 was a Biology specialist, 3 were Maths specialists and 8 were physicists. Half the 2016 cohort were based in London and this was reflected in the participants that I selected, 6 were based in London, 3 in the North of England and 3 were based in the South of England.
Selecting Participants. The aim of the task leading to this deliverable was to discover the opinions of persons involved in low- trophic aquaculture value chains, concerning regulation and policy for LTA. Thus, recruitment of relevant and representative stakeholders was crucial, and was largely addressed by embedding workshops or questionnaires in events organised by or for the LTA producers. This approach avoided many of the practical, ethical and data-protection difficulties associated with identifying and engaging persons representative of the population involved in LTA; indeed, in cases where the industry is small, the events were reckoned to involve the majority of producers. There was however a complication, to be considered in analyses, in that workshop participants and questionnaire respondents included researchers and public officials.