Dealing with People During the Research Process

In this chapter, the various interactions that the researcher establishes with different people in order to successfully navigate the various phases of qualitative research are discussed. These people are subdivided into two groups: providers of inputs for the analyses, referred to here as actors; and the professionals who can help us ensure the quality of the project and the execution of the research. For the actors, we will discuss how to classify them in terms of proximity to the research interests, defining them as a primarySourceprimary source or secondary sourceSourcesecondary source. We conclude this chapter by addressing the care that the researcher must take with these different groups of people to avoid ethical issuesEthical issue.