Data was collected during October 2012 through desk based review and field research, including face to face interviews.
Data was collected during October 2012 through desk based review of documents and field research, including face to face interviews with the assistance of a structured questionnaire with closed and open ended questions.
This study was desk based and reliant on publicly available documents.
Emma Sheldon, global marketing director, told delegates that, after carrying out desk-based research on 150 countries, Vernacare asked UKTI to carry out in-market reports for the top 10, and finally plumped for Singapore – a small country that was easier to "convert".
There has been some laboratory-based work on the particle, what size the particle might be, what it might be made of and how it goes about reflecting the sunlight, but most of the work on reflecting sunlight back into space has been done on computer models or desk-based research.
In 2012, the philanthropic Leverhulme Trust, most notable for funding dreary desk-based research, offered a grant for academic investigation into conspiracies.
Desk-based research, something my future promises a great deal of, can at times be isolating and requires that I constantly keep the bigger picture of a project or task in mind.
These findings led Laires et al. to conduct a desk-based research to compare the proportion of RA patients treated with biologics across Europe and to investigate the factors that most influence its use, with focus on the Portuguese case.
Methodology: The evaluation methodology comprised a mix of site visits and observation, face-to-face semi structured interviews of key informants, focus group discussions, desk-based research and review of existing reports, documents and secondary data.
EVALUATION METHODS: The methodology comprised a mix of site visits and observations, face-to-face in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, desk-based research and review of existing reports, documents and available secondary data.
The research was desk-based without participants and under the four-tier system applied at the University of Edinburgh fell under level 0 – no obligation for ethics review.
