I agree the 'researcher' role is never 'non-participant' even s/he believes
they are. However, I would support (from a UK perspective at least) the
involvement of the higher education sector over the consulting one - the
economics of it and one of the primary products/motive of learning for its own
sake are likely to be at least espoused and so can be put to test - as
consultant of 30 years I greatly value the roots of policy and pratice that set
out in academia, however commercialised that environment has to be these days.
Wonder if John is US, Oz or elsewhere? Might make a difference
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From: john watkins <[email protected]>
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Sent: Wednesday, 9 October 2013, 6:24
Subject: Re: [OSList] Open Space and Research
I don't know why you would need a university researcher to do this work. Plenty
of consulting organizations do really high quality ethnographic research for
organizational change initiatives. Some of us were trained in graduate school
in ethnographic research as a change strategy, even ways to use it
collaboratively with people in open space like settings to study their own
organizations for the purpose of improvement.
Sent from John's iPhone
On Oct 8, 2013, at 6:06 PM, Michael Wood <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is anyone aware of Open Space being used to support Social Sciences
> Qualitative Research in organisations? I have an organisation that wants to
> work on a particular question (how to attract and retrain 'older' workers)
> and they want to work with a University to doing some evidenced based
> internal research on this question. It seems to me that the Sponsor could
> open up a space on the question with the university researcher being part of
> the circle (with me facilitating the Open Space). As well as dealing with any
> action plans that emerge from the day, the university researcher could then
> sit down with the Sponsor after the event and do some systematic analysis of
> the Book of the Proceedings to identify emergent themes and then decide how
> to design further research as required by the Sponsor. In effect the Open
> Space would be a broad brush 'step 1' in the research design. Of course all
> the normal conditions of Open Space would be encouraged -
voluntary participation and as
mu
> ch diversity in the room as possible.
>
> Anyone been involved in a project like this, particularly in the Health Care
> industry, collaborating with a university researcher?
>
> Michael Wood
> Perth, Western Australia
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