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Olley, Jack, Ginige, Tilak, Cvitanovic, Marin and Bunt-MacRury, Laura (2025) Transcripts - Semi structured interviews - Jack Olley - PhD - 2025 - A case study of access to water in South Africa to critically assess the implementation of key principles of sustainable development and environmental justice.
These are the transcripts of the interviews I conducted for chapter 3 of my PhD - Chapter title: "Stakeholder perspectives of sustainable and just water management in South Africa".
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| Date: | 29 May 2025 | ||||||||||
| Date type: | Submission | ||||||||||
| Geographic coverage: | South Africa | ||||||||||
| Data collection method: | Semi-structured interviews This study conducted semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders involved in water management in South Africa. Semi-structured interviews involve participants answering open-ended questions that have already been developed by the researcher (Jamshed 2014). They can be carefully designed and adapted to collect relevant data relating to a subject (Kvale 1994). Semi-structured interviews involve questions that are somewhat structured but allow the participant to flexibly answer questions depending on their own areas of knowledge (Guest 2013). The interviewer can follow up with “what, why or how” questions to gather further information that they deem relevant to the research (Adams 2015). This is a valuable data collection method as it means that the development of the questions does not exclude unexpected data that may be valuable to the research (Adams 2015). Question design Key questions were developed (Table 3.1) based on the major challenges identified in the literature review (Olley et al. 2024). Recruitment Informed by the literature review (Chapter 2), it was determined that the key stakeholders most directly involved in water management are academics, agricultural companies, government, local communities, mining companies, NGOs and water service providers. Local communities were approached by surveys (Chapter 4). Qualitative data was collected by conducting semi-structured interviews with relevant stakeholders. Academic stakeholders were approached by contacting the authors involved in the publications that arose most frequently in the literature review. The remaining stakeholders were contacted by google searching agricultural companies, government offices, mining companies, NGOs and waste service providers and sending them an approach email. The entire interview process was approved by Bournemouth University’s ethics committee. An appropriate sample size is dependent on the research topic and the quality and depth of the data collected (Israel 1992). Marshall et al. 2013 proposed that 15 to 30 interviews was an appropriate sample size for a single case study. While this is a valuable rule of thumb, qualitative reviewers tend to agree on the principle of saturation, whereby new interviews do not provide any new information (Mason 2010). A saturation point was reached at 35 interviews within this interview table (3.3). Analysis After transcription, each transcript document was imported to NVivo 12, a qualitative data analysis computer software. Interview data was then sorted into relevant themes by creating nodes on NVivo that the data could be categorised into. Each transcript was then read systematically, and the participants’ responses were categorised into nodes (Table 3.4). This gathered qualitative data relating to specific areas of sustainable water management in South Africa. The research was approved by Bournemouth University’s ethics committee, Ethics Code 39783, and is in line with Bournemouth University’s Information Security Policy. | ||||||||||
| Keywords: | Water management, Sustainable Development, Environmental Justice, South Africa | ||||||||||
| Status: | Unpublished | ||||||||||
| Contact email address: | bordar@bournemouth.ac.uk |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.18746/bmth.data.00000461 |
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| Depositing User: | Jack Olley |
| Year Deposited: | 04 Jun 2025 15:19 |
| Revision: | 14 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Jun 2025 15:19 |
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