Work undertaken at an appropriate location outdoors or off campus that exercises knowledge and gathers experience and/or materials.
The live collection of primary data from external sources by means of surveys, observation and experiment.
Fieldwork can be conducted by observation, surveys (such as face to face interviews, telephone interviews and web interviews) or experiments. It is the basic term for the live collection of primary data from external sources. Fieldwork is either co-ordinated by an in-house fieldwork department within a market research agency or an external fieldwork company. Once fieldwork has been conducted data processing is usually the next step.
Observations and work done in an actual work environment to gain real-life experience and knowledge.
Methods of collecting data, usually observation or social survey that requires the researcher to go out into a defined area.
All of the operations involved in data collection and in overseeing the work of the interviewers (interviewing, instructing interviewers on respondent selection, keeping track of quotas, verification or monitoring of interviews, etc.).
methods and ways folklorists and other social scientists use to identify and document traditional culture through directly observing tradition bearers and cultural processes. See ethnography.
work done in the field (outside) including various kinds of research such as plant collecting, surveys, and excavations
A general term that refers to the data collection process. The most common methods in market research are face-to-face, telephone, internet, mystery shopping and postal. When fieldwork is being conducted, the project is sometimes referred to as being ‘in field’ or ‘fielded’.^ to top
The process of collecting data from respondents.
the firsthand observation of human cultures and societies.
documentation of cultural expressions and ways of life conducted in the social and cultural contexts in which they take place; the gathering of anthropological or sociological data through first-hand observation and interviewing of subjects in the field
Any work, study or research authorised by UNSW and conducted by staff, post-graduate student(s), under-graduate student(s) and volunteers at a site other than the Kensington, Randwick, Manly Vale, Little Bay, or Paddington campuses or the Bankstown flight training facility. Note: Where staff are working on a permanent basis at a remote field station (eg. Fowler's Gap), this is taken to be their normal place of work. Such permanently employed staffs are not deemed to be engaging in fieldwork activity.
A short period of study, normally but not always at a location away from the University, usually conducted in a group to undertake practical activities which may be assessed.
