Author Archives: Maisie McGowan

To advise the best method I composed a positive and negatives to weigh up if an online survey can be beneficial. This was based on research surrounding online surveys. The surveys were decided on due to following positives.

We have now received more clarity on the situation with regards to research. A lot of Europe has closed their borders and so if we were to travel to Amsterdam we would have been quarantined. Our research had to develop further as most organisations in the uk were closing. we wanted to continue to focusContinue reading “Update”

We were meant to be going to Amsterdam on Sunday to conduct research into sex workers and Project 1012. Due to the coronavirus, the university decided to cancel the trip. The government have not issued any recommendations to avoid travel to Holland, however there is of course a risk. After wasting so much time planningContinue reading “Coronavirus”

It is just under one week until we travel to Amsterdam to do research of current and previous sex workers. Over the course of the week I have started to plan the research method that we are all happy with, we have decided on interviews, with semi structured interviews. I have developed 2 sets ofContinue reading “Final preparation”

Currently, our focus has been directed towards the project 1012, this is a project that was developed in 2007 in order to regenerate the centre of Amsterdam, and try and reduce organised crime such as human trafficking especially in minors, and to reduce the coercion of sexual practices in the centre. from what i canContinue reading “Planning international fieldwork”

I’ve been to Amsterdam before and loved it so very exciting that I’m going again especially for free and to do some research ! Automatically focused thought to sex workers as it’s such a huge aspect of Amsterdam and something that I think will be largely informative. It’s also something that there is large stigmaContinue reading “Initial expectations”

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