Research Data and the World Wide Web

Abstract

Part I described the history of only-child research and my contribution. Part II introduces how the findings were made public. Going public was an integral part of the research project and by using a narrative life-story approach, it was always intended that the stories would be available to a wider audience, primarily adult only-children, but also anyone interested in only-child phenomena. Having collected my initial data (the stories) and discovered the areas of similarity and difference in only-child experience (the findings), I was now interested in promoting this knowledge and gathering a response from anyone who might be interested. This was done in a number of ways. The first was by publicising the stories on a website, the second was to write articles and simultaneously to offer workshops to adult onlies and attend conferences to promote the work further. This chapter reviews some of the results of going public and some of the less-expected aspects of this process.