After an almost teary farewell to Claire (girlfriend) at the platform, I'm on my way down to Gatwick Airport on the train... It's just crept up on me! The sky's blue, the sun's out, the trees are green again, and the fields are jaundiced from the oil seed rape flowers. And they're rushing past all blurry very fast! I'm in the pleasant company of Sophie Unell, a fellow coursemate who's off to Buenos Aires for her research project.
A week to go has turned to a 4.5 hours to go and I've never felt this nervous before about going away! I feel like I'm about to fly into a big exam that'll last weeks. I'm sure those of you who are reading this with real exams will be disgusted that I think flying to Uganda for 8 weeks is a worse prospect than they're facing sat in some glum university back room huddled over their desks.
I don't think that. Sorry guys! I've got a better deal than you.
This trips a little different from my other overseas jaunts. I'm going armed with a few questions, a swish new Apple MacBook, a dictaphone and a big fat social research methods textbook. Not your standard bag full from a dash around Millets.
I'm going as a student researcher.
The questions may seem a bit dry to you:
- How do Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), like MSF, make decisions regarding their health policies and programmes?
- Where do NGOs find the information to inform their health policies and programmes?
- How do NGOs decide which information to use?
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