The researcher themselves is the most important part of a research project so it is important that a research report includes information about the researcher.
Examples of information to include:
- What experience, training, and perspective does the researcher bring to the field?
- What personal connections does the researcher have to the people, program, or topic studied?
- Who funded the study and under what arrangements with the researcher?
- How did the researcher gain access to the study site?
- What prior knowledge did the researcher bring to the research topic and the study site?
There can be no definitive list of questions that must be addressed to establish the researcher’s credibility. The important point is to report any personal and professional information that may have affected data collection, analysis, and interpretation either negatively or positively in the minds of users of the findings.
Background characteristics of the researcher (e.g., gender, age, race, ethnicity) may also be relevant to report in that such characteristics can affect how the researcher was received in the setting under study and related issues.
For research to be credible it is vital that the results show who the researcher was and information about why he carried out this research. If there was any relationship between the study area and the researcher before the research was conducted it must be explained.
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