Doing TB Differently (Part 2): Online forum scripts

Saunders, Clare and Price, Stephan and Hinchliffe, Stephen and McDonald, Robbie (2017). Doing TB Differently (Part 2): Online forum scripts. [Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive. 10.5255/UKDA-SN-852112

Our research will be guided by three research questions: (1) How does the character of the acute conflict (characterised, in this case, by controversial field culls of badgers combined with the deliberately narrow remit of an Independent Expert Panel) reveal key fracture points in the debate?; (2) What is the scope for reducing conflicts and overcoming fracture points through social science led forms of interventions? (3) Can a social science-led intervention translate into broader policy change? These questions will be addressed from several angles. We will collect field observations and develop and analyse an archive of film evidence recording interactions between and among pro-and anti- culling groups, cull contractors, companies, farmers and police officers as culling is being undertaken. A sample of people from each of these groups will be approached for in-depth interviews. Data will also be generated from social- and mass-media. An online deliberative forum will be used to understand the types of argumentation deployed on all sides of the debate. This will inform a Q-set (a set of key arguments used in the debate) that will be used to test the views of participants in deliberative forums before and after they participate in two deliberative events. These professionally facilitated deliberative forums will seek to negotiate a workable compromise for future TB policy. Q-methodology will allow us to assess the extent to which social science-led deliberative forums have been able to reduce key fracture points in the conflict. Finally, we will run focus groups with key policy makers assessing the utility of our approach for informing policy and the possibility of our findings shaping TB policy.

Data description (abstract)

This data collection consist of saved webpages from an online discussion forum about bovine tuberculosis and the culling of badgers, showing the comments and replies that participants made. The discussions involved participants in four different simultaneous discussion groups over five days. On each day participants were given a new stimulus and question to respond to. There was little or no further intervention from the moderators. See guide for further information. Note that there are three other collections associated with this research(see Related Resources below for links): 852114: Doing TB Differently: Q Methods data 852115: Doing TB Differently: Stakeholder dialogue workshop 852116: Doing TB Differently: Interview transcripts

Data creators:
Creator Name Affiliation ORCID (as URL)
Saunders Clare University of Exeter http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4995-4967
Price Stephan University of Exeter
Hinchliffe Stephen University of Exeter
McDonald Robbie University of Exeter
Sponsors: ESRC
Grant reference: ES/L008106/1
Topic classification: Natural environment
Keywords: bovine tuberculosis, badger cull, online discussion
Project title: Doing TB differently: Generating a workable TB policy during an acute episode within a chronic countryside conflict
Grant holders: Clare Saunders, Steve Hinchliffe, Robbie McDonald
Project dates:
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21 October 201320 April 2015
Date published: 25 May 2016 12:34
Last modified: 06 Apr 2017 11:22

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