It sadness me but there are very few specialists in conducting research with 'hard to reach audiences' e.g. drug addicts, domestic abusers, children in homes etc. There are two main reasons for this:
(1) Most recruiters are nice middle class mums and tend to recruit from their own network this means that drug addicts etc are not generally on their radar + they don't really want to recruit them
(2) Most researchers are nice middle class mums this means that they are out of their comfort zone and don't want to talk to people that they can't really conect with. My favourite example is a researcher who tried to convince a national bookmakers that they should not speak to DEs despite the fact that this constituted half the clients target audience, the only reason this was suggested was that it was outside of her comfort zone.
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