Heritage at Risk and Wellbeing Lincoln University Research Project Design
This is an accessible text alternative for a diagram setting out a project design for research on the relationship between volunteering for Heritage at Risk conservation and wellbeing, designed by a team from University of Lincoln.
Activity 1: the approach to this activity was based on grounded theory.
- We designed a theoretical framework for semi-structured interviews exploring aspects of place-based, project-related wellbeing and used it to interview project volunteers from 10 HaR sites.
- We analysed interview transcripts for wellbeing related content and coded each occurrence.
- We grouped similarly coded comments into categories, adding and combining categories as indicated by the interview data.
- We grouped related categories into themes.
- The data source was interviews.
Activity 2: the approach to this activity was descriptive analysis
- We then devised an online survey informed by our coding to expand our data set and cross-check our emerging themes.
- The data source was the survey.
Activites: 3-4: the approach to these activities was cross case synthesis.
- We identified 6 key project attributes by reviewing project histories and data from our interviews and survey.
- We tested hypotheses proposing causational relationships between project attributes and the data grounded themes.
- The data sources were interviews, survey, project histories themes and attributes.
Activity 5: the approach to this activity was explanation building.
- We correlated our grounded categories themes and sub-themes with HaR projects, conventional wellbeing domains (NEF5) and HaR project attributes to identify the wellbeing characteristics of different projects and articulate the relationship between project attributes and wellbeing.
- The data sources were interviews, survey, project histories themes and attributes.
Activity 6: The approach for this actvity was logic modelling.
- We developed a logic model showing the relationship between our identified inputs, resources, barriers and wellbeing outcomes within themes and across 6 domains to articulate the process where by HAR projects can increase wellbeing.
- The data sources were interviews, survey, project histories themes and attributes.
