Heritage at Risk and Wellbeing Lincoln University Research Project Design

This is an accessible text alternative for a diagram setting out a project design for research on the relationship between volunteering for Heritage at Risk conservation and wellbeing, designed by a team from University of Lincoln.

Activity 1: the approach to this activity was based on grounded theory.

  • We designed a theoretical framework for semi-structured interviews exploring aspects of place-based, project-related wellbeing and used it to interview project volunteers from 10 HaR sites.
  • We analysed interview transcripts for wellbeing related content and coded each occurrence.
  • We grouped similarly coded comments into categories, adding and combining categories as indicated by the interview data.
  • We grouped related categories into themes.
  • The data source was interviews.

Activity 2: the approach to this activity was descriptive analysis

  • We then devised an online survey informed by our coding to expand our data set and cross-check our emerging themes.
  • The data source was the survey.

Activites: 3-4: the approach to these activities was cross case synthesis.

  • We identified 6 key project attributes by reviewing project histories and data from our interviews and survey.
  • We tested hypotheses proposing causational relationships between project attributes and the data grounded themes.
  • The data sources were interviews, survey, project histories themes and attributes.

Activity 5: the approach to this activity was explanation building.

  • We correlated our grounded categories themes and sub-themes with HaR projects, conventional wellbeing domains (NEF5) and HaR project attributes to identify the wellbeing characteristics of different projects and articulate the relationship between project attributes and wellbeing.
  • The data sources were interviews, survey, project histories themes and attributes.

Activity 6: The approach for this actvity was logic modelling.

  • We developed a logic model showing the relationship between our identified inputs, resources, barriers and wellbeing outcomes within themes and across 6 domains to articulate the process where by HAR projects can increase wellbeing.
  • The data sources were interviews, survey, project histories themes and attributes.

Also of interest

Heritage at Risk, Volunteering and Wellbeing