One student's (overly ambitious?) quest to collect all her dissertation data in three countries in 60 days.
I have now conducted three of my key informant interviews. I am so thrilled to have real data. Lee Strunin and Barbara Bokhour (my qualitative methods professors) would be very proud of me as I am diligently taking detailed field notes after every interview and have begun my transcription. On Thursday, I had my first […]
Today was quite a roller coaster. Quite excited by the news yesterday that the Director General “agreed to approve” the study, I stayed up until 3:00 am printing 25 surveys for delivery to leaders at 3 hospitals over the course of a day (it took 17 minutes to print each 42-page packet and I already […]
My day was made today when the Director General agreed to approve my research. I’m still waiting for the official signed approval, but I’m fairly confident that I’ll get the letter tomorrow morning, at least I hope so since the plan is to deliver all the surveys tomorrow. We are now asking our experts to […]
Being my first time in Lesotho, or Southern Africa for that matter, so much is new. Foremost, the people are so friendly. Each person Lauren introduces me to greets me with a warm hug –shop owners, waitresses, old colleagues. We’re staying with a Basotho friend of hers, Me’ Zinia. Me’ is a respectful term for […]
