Wow, after nearly a year of fieldwork, the interviews are coming to a close! July ended quietly on the recruitment front, so I knew I would need to push the recruitment stuff forward in August to attempt to secure 5 or so more women for the final batch of interviews. I started with a simple status on my research Facebook page (just while I went away to think of some other methods) and the response was unprecedented! 3 or 4 young women contacted me within an hour, and I had a total of 7 new contacts within 2 days. This may not sound like a lot, but sometimes I wouldn’t even get 7 contacts in a month, let alone a couple of days! So yes, recruitment obviously can be like buses, nothing for ages, then loads come along at once! So far, 4 of these contacts have been interviewed, and the 25th interview is now booked in for this week. As 25 is the approx. number of interviews I initially stated I would undertake, this could mean that by next week the interview stage of the research is completed (leaving me to try to sort out the pesky focus groups – no comment)! I will need to speak to my supervisors in today’s supervision about whether I should keep trying to recruit for further interviews or not. It’s a tricky one, how do you know when to stop? When and how can you say you have ‘enough’ or ‘sufficient’ data? I feel like I’m still getting loads of rich, new data, and I could keep going… but you have to draw the line somewhere I guess. So this could be the end of an era. Or not. Watch this space!