Janet Walton is doing the Masters of Science Project with the Open University. She is focussing her research on exercise addiction and is conducting semi-structured interviews for her data. She's going to be running a triathlon in August, her second this year.
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Janet is about to pilot her questionnaire. So what does piloting a questionnaire involve, and how does that help an empirical study? And what do students who are doing a literature review get up to?

Tutor Dr Val Rees gives us an insight into the process.

How do you target your subjects, and what do you do about bias? Janet discusses the benefits of the semi-structured interview over questionaires. Add to that the fact that she knocked herself silly this week, we're in for an action-packed episode.View this week's video diary.