Overview
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Researchers at the School of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations have been undertaking donor research with the Australian Red Cross Blood Service for several years as part of formal research collaborations. The Blood Service established formal donor research four years ago and since that time has developed a range of research design rules and process. The time has now come for these processes to be formally documented to guide researchers in designing future projects that conform to Blood Service rules.
This project requires the student to:
- conduct phone interviews with key research partners of the Blood Service to identify problems and barriers in designing and undertaking donor research
- summarise the outcomes of the interviews and provide a report to the Blood Service
- record the recruitment and ethics requirements for different types of quantitative and qualitative research typically undertaken
- list the common barriers researchers experience and list possible remedies (remedies will be suggested by Blood Service staff)
- compile exemplar ethics applications, recruitment instructions and exemplars of different research designs into a manual.
This project will involve the student travelling to Melbourne two to three times during the period to discuss the requirements and work on the documents. Flights and accommodation will be paid for by the Blood Service (details to be finalised) and working space within the donor research area will be provided while in Melbourne.
- Study level
- Vacation research experience scholarship
- Supervisors
- QUT
- Organisational unit
QUT Business School
- Research area
- Keywords
- blood service, methodology, donation behaviour
- Contact
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Please contact Professor Rebekah Russell-Bennett.
Dr Gary Mortimer
Professor Rebekah Russell-Bennett
