Thinking critically and creatively about focus groups

Area

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 528-535

  Hopkins, Peter E ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Focus groups; Group composition; Locality; Qualitative research; Sensitive topics; Timing

Indexed keywords

CULTURE; GEOGRAPHICAL THOUGHT; GROUP SIZE; HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PANEL DATA;

EID: 36349017283     PISSN: 00040894     EISSN: 14754762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2007.00766.x     Document Type: Article

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