Professor Jennifer Todd:

I get my evidence by talking to people, and talking to ordinary people in Northern Ireland. If I am writing about Northern Ireland, I go back to mid-Ulster, where I was born, and out to Newtownards or somewhere like that and talk to ordinary people. Part of what inspired the work Dr. McEvoy and I carry out is the sense many of my colleagues, whom I talk to all the time, are kind of top-down academics. They say the big questions are when the referendum is going to be held, whether it is going to be held before or after something else, what exactly is going to be asked and so on. These are big questions, but they did not seem to me to be the prior questions or the questions people I talk to, either in the North or in the South, were thinking about. They also seemed to send people to sleep, except those who were really concerned with this matter. That is what inspired me. I was counting up the number of participants. We talked to at least 155 people; probably more like 160-plus. Dr. McEvoy may wish to take over.