Post-Disaster Housing Reconstruction in Sri Lanka

Research methodology is the procedural framework within which theresearch is conducted. This includes the overall approach to a problem that could be putinto practice in a research process, from the theoretical underpinning to the collectionand analysis of data. Choice of methodology depends on the primary drivers: topic to beresearched and the specific research questions. Hence, methodological perspectives ofmanaging stakeholder expectations of PDHR context are composed of research philosophies,research strategy, research design, and research techniques. This research belonged tosocial constructivism or interpretivism within a philosophical continuum. The nature ofthe study was more toward subjectivism where human behavior favored voluntary stance.Ontological, methodological, epistemological, and axiological positioning carried thecharacteristics of idealism, ideographic, anti-positivism, and value laden,respectively. Data collection comprises two phases, preliminary and secondary.Exploratory interviews with construction experts in the United Kingdom and Sri Lankawere carried out to refine the interview questions and identify the case studies. Casestudy interviews during the secondary phase took place in Sri Lanka. Data collected atthe preliminary stage were used to assess the attributes of power, legitimacy/proximity,and urgency of stakeholders to the project using Stakeholder Circle™ software. Moreover,the data collected at secondary phase via case studies will be analyzed with NVivo 8.This article aims to discuss these methodological underpinnings in detail applied in apost-disaster housing reconstruction context in Sri Lanka