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Notes From the Field: Research in a Complex Bureaucracy

Yeshiva University, Wurzweiler School of Social Work, 2495 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10033, jbeder{at}optonline.net

Field research is always a challenge. It involves going to the source of information, often doing face-to-face interviewing, and depending on the largesse and kindness of others to help facilitate the interview schedule. I recently initiated a field study involving social workers who work in the military. I anticipated numerous challenges in accessing participants, in finding departments of social work willing to participate, and so on. However, I could never have anticipated the actual struggles that I encountered well before participants became an issue. This article will explain some of those challenges.

Key Words: research • bureaucracy • review boards • protocol • government regulations

This version was published on June 1, 2009

Traumatology, Vol. 15, No. 2, 119-122 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1534765609332324


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