It is typical that one of her final projects involved three weeks spent visiting small villages in Gujerat, western India, documenting young girls embroidering their own dowries.
Another British bidder once offered $26,000 for a package that involved three weeks interning for Richard Branson, followed by three weeks with hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, but was quickly outbid in a sale that eventually reached $85,000.
The study involved eight weeks of participant observation, 26 in-depth interviews, and 11 group discussions with young people aged 14 24 years, and 20 in-depth interviews and 6 group discussions with parents/carers of children in this age group.
My ideal holiday is one which involves two weeks of roughing it and a week of unbridled luxury.
For example, an insurance policy may cover up to ten radiation treatments over the course of a year, Ms. Schmidt noted, while the course of therapy for breast cancer may involve seven weeks of treatment.
Designed for 16- and 17-year-olds, it mixes together young people from different backgrounds, and involves three weeks of team-building skills while living away from home, then returning to design and run a social action project in their community.
A stint fighting Ebola in West Africa involves six weeks in the region and another three away from work to avoid potentially infecting hospitals back home, he said.
A qualitative study involving ten weeks of ethnographic observations in two English community pharmacies.
It was really geared up to people who were already in work; it involved three individual weeks in the classroom, so that's when I had to take a week out of the office to go into class, and then, a bit like at university, I had a lot of reading and assignments throughout the term that I had to accomplish.
This activity was conducted over 4 wk and involved two meetings per week.
