C News 12 May 2008
This week’s C News update. had a good chat to my coach tonight and he is happy with my progress and said he doesn’t want to see me again until August, which I guess is a good thing!
Relevant Resources
I have now organised most of my case study and must say I am rather looking forward to it. Country people are so friendly, so when I’ve been calling round looking for places to have focus groups and interviews everyone wants to help so much!
I will be holding three focus groups of 6-8 people. They will be held in Orbost, Heyfield and Omeo. I chose these three destinations as they cover a wide distance in terms of East Gippsland and they were each heavily affected by the 2006 bushfire season.
To attract participants for my focus groups I will be putting articles or ads in the Heyfield News (800 people per week), East Gippsland Times and the Snowy River Mail. From asking locals where would be best these three came out on top.
Here are some of the most useful sites when thinking about bushfires and the media:
Bushfire CRC www.bushfireCRC.com.au
ABC Victoria http://www.abc.net.au/corp/
DSE Bushfires http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/dse/nrenfoe.nsf/Home+Page/DSE+Fire%7EHome+Page?open
I have a meeting tomorrow with the State Director of the ABC, Randal Mathieson, to discuss my thesis and find out the key objectives the ABC have in terms of the memorandum of agreement with emergency services. This will really kick start my research as it will give me the best direction for an analytic tool.
