ABSTRACT

In this chapter we describe the conceptual background to, and some research findings from, a policy-oriented research project concerned with the valuation of the benefits to people of improved health and safety controls. This project is doubly unusual since not only has it involved the combined use of qualitative with quantitative methods, but at the same time a collaboration between psychologists and economists in a single research programme. Accordingly, the chapter aims to describe some of the theoretical and methodological challenges involved when mixing both methods and intellectual disciplines in a single research programme.