- Gathering Data: Changes
There were a number of changes from the original action plan. Below I detail what they were, why they happened.
| Changes | Why? | Successful? Unsuccessful? Issues? |
| Didn’t record meetings using an audio recorder or teams, instead kept a text and visual diary | Ethical and Practical Reasons. This became hard to do because of the emotional sensitivity of some meetings and in others because of the complexity of what I was doing. The diary had only been meant for the informal meetings but after the very first day I documented everything in it. | Successful, because I was able to focus on the areas that most interested me, the sensory and emotional. Some of the things I’d originally talked about looking at, like conversation patterns, I realised I just wasn’t interested in. |
| Not graphically analysing, instead graphically recorded experience | As above | Successful – This change felt like it made creating the visual material easier. Perhaps because I was working from my own experience? More natural mode for me as a practitioner? In terms of analysing experience, visual material was useful as it created distance. Issues – Because I was working from my own experience, there were more considerations in terms of ‘validity’ |
| Used different aspects of visual language than originally planned | As above | Successful – Natural move. |
| Didn’t choose an aspect of meeting, instead identified a number of themes | Material dictated this. More messy and unruly. Also, more intensive, more iterative stages needed. | Successful – Themes surfaced were meaningful. Unsuccessful? Could your findings have been more powerful or meaningful if you had narrowed focus? But then this felt like it would be a cleaning up of mess which would make the learning less rich. |
| Didn’t develop a set of practices that I was then able to implement for a fixed period, instead spent longer analysing then discussed what I’d found with colleagues, line managers | Processing of images and analysis took longer than expected. | Successful – Good learning for the future. Unsuccessful – You were only able to put what you learnt into practice to a certain extent. |