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Barring exceptional circumstances, you would not reveal the names and
contact details of the participants to each other. You may give the name
of the person who recommended the participant, if that person is known to
them (provided you had the consent of the recommending person first), and
if you are using a snowball sampling method, but there would be no
justification for giving out the names of ALL the participants in this
case, just the mutual point of contact, to establish your credibility. In
some cases, it may be appropriate and necessary to give the names of the
participants to each other, but you should only do this where you have the
prior consent of each person to do this. It is, of course, quite
appropriate, and a key part of the `informing process', to give out the
researcher's name and contact details, to describe the aims of the project
(in lay terms) and to tell participants how their data will be used. |
