Tools for small-scale research

(TBD: tähän tulee kreikkaa)

This tool group provides an overview of ways to do small scale research, as well as some more detailed instructions for some of the methods:

  • How to use existing knowledge?
  • How to do an interview? (one-page instructions + downloadable manual and checklist)
  • How to do field observations? (one-page instructions + downloadable manual and checklist)
  • How to do a survey study? (one-page instructions + downloadable manual and checklist)
  • How to conduct focus group discussions? (one-page instructions + downloadable manual and checklist)

Click on the headings below to read more about each tool.

N.B. Remember to summarise the key points that you learned from your small-scale research so you can use them later. We also warmly recommend at least some face-to-face contact with the target group already at this stage. Talking to people in real life gives a ‘face’ to your target group, increases your own motivation helps to pre-market your project.