The ASSR usually holds a meeting in the first Wednesday of each month (except January). The meetings tend to be focussed around a talk delivered by an invited speaker.
Meeting date: first Wednesday of the month
Time: 12.15 p.m.
Venue: Department of Internal Affairs, level 1, cnr Lambton Quay and Waring Taylor Street, Wellington.
Date: 3 August 2011.
Topic: Saying What You Mean And Hearing What Is Meant: Issues in researching employee perspectives.
Speakers: Dr Rose Ryan, Research Director, Heathrose Research.
Abstract: Undertaking research with people in workplace settings presents a unique set of challenges,
including difficulties associated with obtaining worker voices, including gaining access to the workplace, possible communication
barriers between researchers and workers, and the usability of new technologies for increasing response rates and collecting data.
Where worker voices are included in research, they are often taken at face value, without a consideration of how the research setting
and their vulnerability as employees might influence what is said. In this presentation, Dr Ryan will draw on her extensive
experience in research on and in workplaces, and particularly on recent projects exploring training within workplaces, to reflect
on these issues. Rose will explore a range of methodological issues associated with hearing the employee voice, including access,
the time and places at which interviews are held, the extent to which employers should be asked to “consent” to trainee interviews,
and ethical issues. Part of this will involve exploring the extent to which employee voices have been included in a decade of
research on industry training in New Zealand, and the value that these voices have been accorded in relation to those of other
participants in the system.
The ASSR holds an AGM each year at its April meeting.
Last AGM: Wednesday 20 April 2011
The ASSR runs Conferences and workshops from time to time.
A PowerPoint of the Peter Davis August 2009 conference is here.
A PDF of the Peter Davis August 2009 seminar is here.
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