Research
Research Design and Field Methods
Qualitative and quantitative research design, field methods, and data-collection protocols for environmental and social science.
The challenge
Research Design and Field Methods
Weak research design wastes fieldwork budgets and produces findings that do not hold. The fix is upstream — the right questions, the right methods, sampling that stands up, and protocols that survive ethical review.
How I work
The approach
A field-verified method, not a desk exercise.
01
Frame the study
Define questions, hypotheses, and the design that can actually answer them.
02
Set the methods
Build field protocols, sampling, and instruments — qualitative, quantitative, or mixed.
03
Plan the analysis
Specify the analysis before data collection so results are defensible.
What you get
Deliverables
Design
Study design
Qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods design.
Field
Protocols
Field data-collection protocols and instruments.
Analysis
Analysis plan
Pre-specified analysis approach.
Ethics
Review support
Support for ethical-review compliance.
My MSc research used focus groups and key-informant interviews in the Bakossi Landscape, and my Bamunka study applied Chi-square hypothesis testing. I design studies I have run myself.
Published field researcher; Academic Research Foundations (Quantitative)