Presenting at the research conference really did make me feel positive and gave me the encouragement to 'keep calm and carry on' working on my dissertation over the past few weeks and this positivity really shines through in my last post!
However, it is proving to be a very long and hard process and I have begun to feel a little saturated with it this week. At times I feel I am taking one step forwards and feeling positive that something has gone well and then the realisation that this may not be at the best standard it could be... back to the drawing board and two steps back again.
It is of huge importance to me that I represent service users voices within my research, and on reflection I have realised that this poses to be more difficult than I had originally thought. Due to certain characteristics of autism spectrum disorder, individuals experience difficulties exploring answers in depth and it is these answers that are most important and that I am struggling to represent within my dissertation. I tried to represent their responses in statistical format (Much to my dismay!) However, as usual, I am no good with numbers and this did not work out for me and also didn't really match up with the qualitative nature of my study.
It is back to the drawing board once again - I am determined to get these service users voices heard and represented!
2 weeks until hand in date and counting.
This comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteAttempt 2 at a comment, since the original didnt go as planned. Walking and typing dont go together.
ReplyDeleteYou are doing a fab just. And I can hear how important getting the service users voices heard is to you.
You can do it! Not long to go now... 😊
Thanks Kelly! It's all part of the process! We will get there in the end - and the end is finally in sight woohoo :) x
ReplyDelete