Research Design - Learn The Basics

As part of your research, you will need to identify “who” you need to recruit or work with to answer your research question/s. Often this population will be quite large (such as nurses or doctors across Victoria), or they may be difficult to access (such as people with mental health conditions). Sampling is a way that you can choose a smaller group of your population to research and then generalize the results of this across the larger population.

This guide looks at the importance of sampling, considers non-probability sampling approaches, probability (randomised) sampling approaches, and provides further reading resources.