Expatriate Spouse/Partner PhD research - please help!

[HardyC]

Dear Members,

My name is Claire Hardy and I am a PhD student at the University of Nottingham in the UK. I am trying to contact UK employees and their spouses who have experience of being posted on an expatriate assignment (min. duration 1 year) and returning home but finding it difficult to locate these people and would appreciate any help that people could give. I am therefore posting this message to try and contact these individuals and ask if they would be willing to complete a 20 minute online anonymous survey for my research.

If you accompanied your partner on an expatriate assignment, please click on the following link:
www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=7zFfW7_2bHaWJty9k68InsJA_3d_3d
and complete a survey designed specifically for trailing spouses/partners.

If you know of anyone else who may be willing to help and complete a survey, please forward this message to them.

I am extremely grateful for your time.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at [email protected].

I'd be glad to do it, but don't know if I would be any use. My dh wasn't posted, he applied for and got jobs if that makes sense.

have you posted this link on forces sweethearts? there are a few of us who are/ have been 'elsewhere'...

i loathe surveys lol (am a qual girl at heart) but will have a look and see if i can bear it

I am currently one of these and have been for nearly 3 years now but no plans to come back yet as DH contract now on more local terms (so not sure if I qualify). I do know some others who may be able to help but I can't get your link to work.

I would gladly do this survey but I can't get the link to work (having C&P the whole thing). It just defaults to the surveymonkey homepage.

Could you repost using the Mumsnet link syntax?

please repost the link - not working!

oh, ok. found it via another route. good lo' google.

completed, but it's a bit clunky and tres verbose in parts. (i think maybe too much cut and paste lol, though rofl a bit at partner being referred to as 'room mate' at one point amongst acres of text.)

claire - surveys in social research (de vaus) and any other survey design text (don dillman still oldie but goodie) will give you a few pointers about common mistakes - assume you are familiar, but maybe a bit of revision needed in order to get some useful results. some of the responses to the lengthier waffle will, i suspect, not be worth your analysis.

a leetle upset by the undercover racial stuff - not sure this was quite what was suggested by the 'info' blurb at the start. curious to know what you are doing though - (off for a scan around the notts site) as have similar spousal research interest myself, but from slightly diff angle...

lo' google? lol. ol' google

link

Although, that just seems to get you to the default page?

yep. she's posted it all over the place though. if you google her name and uni, you can find it. some of the links work from other sites. i think i used some expat noticeboard? i don't think she has linked her data from specific sites though, so shouldn't be a problem...

Hello all,

Thank you very much for looking at my post and offering help/suggestions.

I am in desperate need for former expatriated employees and their accompanying partners to complete surveys for my PhD.

If the link hasn't worked, try this one:

www.surveymonkey.com/s/H9C6JLG

If anyone has any questions or issues, please contact me at [email protected]. More than happy to discuss the research with you.

Thank you all so much for your help. I truely appreciate it.

Also, if you have completed a survey, please encourage your partner (if appropriate) to complete a survey too. The information that can be explored when both partners provide input is extremely interesting and potential very useful for organisations. I hope that my research will be able to fill gaps that currently exist with issues and factors raised.