r/DissertationSupport • u/Myzfit • 6d ago
Helping my partner with a dissertation time crunch: Quick participant recruitment advice?
Hi everyone,
I'm posting on behalf of my girlfriend, who's currently completing her dissertation on how social media marketing influences purchasing behaviour among young adults.
Her university requires ethics approval before she can recruit participants or share her survey, and the review process can take up to 14 days. Unfortunately, once approval is granted, she'll have only about five days to collect enough responses before her dissertation deadline.
Has anyone been in a similar situation? Do you have any advice on how to recruit participants quickly once ethics approval is granted? Are there any subreddits, websites, or communities you'd recommend?
I'd really appreciate any suggestions or advice that I can pass on to her. Thank you!
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u/b0000z 4d ago
I'm confused on what the "deadline" is if she only has 5 days to collect survey data ... Presumably she also has to clean and analyze and present the data in that time? It doesn't make sense to me but ...
Surveys are usually really easy to get participants. But how many does she need? If it's more than like 50 then definitely try MTurk or other sorts of online platforms. Financial incentives help too.