Review your answers
Session 1
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| Kate’s doctoral research with youth workers | Teresa’s research about teachers as writers | |
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A key issue you can imagine |
Session 2
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| Research question | 1 Approach would most like to use | 2 Approach might consider using | 3 Approach you are less likely to consider using | 4 Approach you would least want to use or feel you should not use |
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Session 4
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| Who? | Could indicate vulnerability? (Yes/no/depends) |
Why? (group, topic, context or not applicable) |
| 1. Young person, 19, conducting participatory workshop on teenage pregnancy and sexual health. | ||
| 2. Researcher recording audio interviews with parents in home-school group. | ||
| 3. Documentary research in census pre-1911 using outdated/offensive terms for disability. | ||
| 4. Filming play at home of child under 16 with communication impairment. | ||
| 5. Seeking consent from parent with limited English to film classroom of child under 16. | ||
| 6. Analysing nurses’ reflective journals on different nursing experiences. | ||
| 7. Large-scale online survey of women’s perceptions of body image. | ||
| 8. Researcher conducting psychology experiment on eye tracking and paintings. | ||
| 9. Conducting focus group with young adults after leaving care on their fostering and care home experiences. | ||
| 10. Visual analysis of drawings of conflict by displaced people. |
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Session 5
Activity 1:
| Disseminating – through publication or performance | |
| Generating – collecting data, ideas | |
| Creating – related to results, interpretations, critiques and models or theoretical insights | |
| Negotiating – gaining access, permissions, consent and support | |
| Framing – setting questions or hypotheses | |
| Reflecting – on personal learning about the process of research |
Activity 2:
| Research activity | Solo | Team |
| Interviewing close colleagues inside your own organisation | ||
| Deciding what to include and what to leave out of a survey | ||
| Making arrangements for field work in more than one site over a wide geographical area using a travel budget | ||
| Stopping field work when participants become upset and seek a debriefing | ||
| Making observational notes in a group setting | ||
| Using an unfamiliar software package for analysing data | ||
| Conducting field work where the language and culture is new to you | ||
| Coding and grouping of data for analysis | ||
| Responding to a senior person who wants to influence your research for a different agenda | ||
| Establishing trust in research relationships before collecting data on sensitive topics | ||
| Interrupting field work when the situation becomes physically or psychologically unsafe | ||
| Finding out something unexpected and exciting in your data | ||
| Identifying a concerning safeguarding issue during field work | ||
| Designing a poster to disseminate your emerging findings | ||
| Making a presentation about your research |
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Session 6
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Activity 9:
| Responsibilities to… | Actions for legacy… | Possible negative consequences if not considered |
| Participants | Have I thanked all those involved? Is it culturally appropriate to offer a gift? Have I made my research findings available? | |
| Sponsors, clients and stakeholders | Did I meet all the requirements of me? Did I report on time? Did I manage my budget (if relevant) efficiently? | |
| Community of educational researchers | Have I developed positive relationships with those in the research site? Have I raised positive understandings of research? | |
| Publish and disseminate | Can people find my research findings readily? Did I reach as many potential audiences as might have been interested in my findings? | |
| My own wellbeing and development | Have I increased my skills and confidence in carrying out research? Have I identified training I need? |