Over the last 16 years as a ‘qualitative researcher’, one who is expected to be asking questions, I am often faced with a simple yet intriguing question from friends and others – “ What is it that you do (professionally)? ”. In the quest of keeping it simple, as is my personality, furthered layered by my profession as a researcher now, I usually find myself responding with the phrase, “ I talk to people ”. This response is most often met with an immediate retort, sometimes explicit and...

“I do not want to share any private information”, they always said. “What constitutes private information?” I would ask. “My bank...

In an age where there is an app for just about anything and everything and where apps are competing aggressively, with each other, for...