If you look at the community rules you will see a procedure for researchers - it is not appropriate just tome come on and ask.
Firstly this is a safe site to help people. Despite your assurances about not using names or contact details, information you obtain might disclose identity accidentally, and there need to be proper ways of disposing of collected evidence.
Secondly the place where you are doing this research should have an ethics committee which ensures correct research procedures and would usually prohibit this kind of approach. The problem with asking like this is you have no way of ensuring the validity of collected data. Since the purpose of your project is to demonstrate you have learned to be a competent researcher, breaking the rules isn't a great start.
The place where you are studying has been seriously remiss in allowing you to do this, if that is what has happened.
Hopefully the moderators will respond as well, but they may not be around at the moment to intercept.
If you look at the community rules you will see a procedure for researchers - it is not appropriate just tome come on and ask.
Firstly this is a safe site to help people. Despite your assurances about not using names or contact details, information you obtain might disclose identity accidentally, and there need to be proper ways of disposing of collected evidence.
Secondly the place where you are doing this research should have an ethics committee which ensures correct research procedures and would usually prohibit this kind of approach. The problem with asking like this is you have no way of ensuring the validity of collected data. Since the purpose of your project is to demonstrate you have learned to be a competent researcher, breaking the rules isn't a great start.
The place where you are studying has been seriously remiss in allowing you to do this, if that is what has happened.
Hopefully the moderators will respond as well, but they may not be around at the moment to intercept.
