This week, I travelled to GMIT to meet James Moran. James had previously worked on numerous environmental schemes such as GLAS, REPS, RBAPS and the Burren Project. This meant he had experience on both action-based and results-based schemes. Before starting the interview with James, we went through my survey which I had prepared for the farmers participating in the Burren Programme. I used his feedback to make a few changes to the survey so that it appeared more ‘farmer friendly’.
I also met with an NUIG undergrad student, Louise, who will be doing work experience in Teagasc. Hopefully, Louise will be joining me in distributing these surveys in the Burren.
This week was great to give me more experience in interviews before meeting more interviewees in the coming weeks.
