Research decision-making needs structure and must be logical, organised, and results-driven. This workshop offers a framework for making the decisions needed to ensure that the research process flows, including decisions about research opportunity, feasibility, impact, strategies, approaches, sources, sampling, data collection, instruments, analysis and reporting.
Diamonds and Flow is a two-hour online practical workshop about decision-making for coherent research methodology, presented by Leonie Vorster. A Zoom link will be emailed to registered participants 48 hours before the workshop.
About the Presenter Leonie is an HPCSA registered Research Psychologist. She is dedicated to ensuring accessible research-based insights, grounded in ethically sourced, contextually relevant evidence, used fairly and for positive impact. Leonie has an MA (Research Psychology) from Nelson Mandela University, and a BA Honours (Psychology) and a BA (Communication Science) from the University of Johannesburg. She has more than 400 research and research-based consulting assignments under the belt, for government, semi-government, private, and not-for-profit clients in more than 30 countries across the globe. She has delivered more than 70 articles, papers, and talks since 1993, for South African, African, and global audiences. Leonie has also edited more than 100 articles for online and offline publication, including conference papers, and research articles in international academic journals. She is a member of the Division for Research and Methodology (DRM) and the Trauma and Violence Division of the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA).
