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Dissertations: A Research Journey

Boo!. Dissertations: A Research Journey. The Research Journey. Research: Rewind & Re-think Research – its everywhere! Philosophy to Practice Concept and Contexts Thinking Tools Some References. Research: Rewind & Re-think.

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Dissertations: A Research Journey

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  1. Boo! Dissertations: A Research Journey

  2. The Research Journey • Research: Rewind & Re-think • Research – its everywhere! • Philosophy to Practice • Concept and Contexts • Thinking Tools • Some References

  3. Research: Rewind & Re-think • Research: bland, boring OR real exciting, imaginative and creative? • Research Counts: in all the sectors • Public– from grant funding (charities – Big Lottery; Scottish Enterprise); initiative evaluation (community art project); policy (everything health, education, policing - think present PM debates) • Private/Commercial – product design and development; consumer profiling to service; brand to strategic direction • Academic – investigating phenomenon; advancing theory to inform and transform policy and practice • Is it about uncovering or constructing Truth – is this an ‘evidence game’ (we will come back to this) • The key – research is at the centre of most of what we do!

  4. Research: it’s everywhere! POLICY RESEARCH PRODUCTS PRACTICE

  5. Philosophy to Practice • So let’s get going – JUST DO IT! • However research is not linear – like our lives and work its messy and dynamic • SO STOP we need to unlock the stuff in relation to you and your area • Then we need to locate and link some ideas/issues that impact on your area. YOU NEED A CREATIVE CORE – the mystical AIM !

  6. Concepts & Contexts • So in mapping out your area and some issues there in we need to look at them – coz they connect to much deeper debates • Remember are we in an ‘evidence game’ • This relates to some questions on ‘Truth’ or ‘truth’ ‘The most fundamental truths about ourselves and the nature of the world we live in, as well as the rules for arriving for at such knowledge, could be established by philosophers…philosophy provided ‘foundations’ the research done’ (Benton and Craib, 2001: 1). • Philosophy wrestles with this, which feeds into research approaches

  7. The Myriad of Wellness • What do we mean?

  8. Concepts & Contexts • Proposal, Practice, Problem?: what gets you going – there’s an idea/problem in there YOUR AIM! • Before we return to your contexts/issues remember the problem of YOU! • Cycle of Reflexivity - take account of your ‘logi bubble’ your world view • Often concepts/analytical spectacles if you will help us see the taken-for-granted the world differently • Thinking differently helps us in the creative quests of our areas – gives us the USP of our AIM

  9. CONSUMERISM Marcuse Zizek Featherstone Brohm Foucault Bourdieu Derrida Bauman Bhabha Adorno Big 3: WMD Grainger-Jones Waters Johnson & Scholces Berridge Kreitner Getz Henry Heywood Bull Bowdin LIFESTYLE IDENTITY DISCOURSE of IEM PRACTICE POLICY Consumption, Production & Governance of Events MANAGEMENT

  10. Thinking Tools! • Catalogue of Concepts: Get Some Glasses & Start Thinking Analytically! • Business & Management: Grainger-Jones; Waters; Johnson & Scholces; Porter; Kreitner; Reid & Saunders; Henry; Priest & Ewart; Handy; Covey • Socio-Cultural: Marx; Weber/Ritzer; Marcuse; Zizek; De Bord; Foucault; Bourdieu; Deleuze & Guattari; Derrida; Butler; Elis & Dunning • Business/Socio-cultural: Pine & Gilmore; Jensen; Buxton; Kurzwell – an on and on! • Back to you and your idea/problem/AIM ?

  11. Some References • Benton, T. and Craid, I. (2001) Philosophy of Social Science: the philosophical foundations of social thought, Baisingstoke, Palgrave. • Bryman, A. (1992). Research methods and Organisation Studies. London, Routledge. • Flick, U. (1999). An Introduction to Qualitative Research. London, sage. • Haralambros, M. and M. Holborn (1995). Sociology: Themes and Perspectives. London, Harper Collins. • Honderich, T., ed. (1995) The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press • Jenks, C. (1998) Core Sociological Dichotomies, London, Sage • Johns, N. and D. Lee-Ross (1998). Research Methods in Service Industry Management. London, Chapman & Hall. • Jorgensen, D. L. (1989). Participant Observation: A Methodology for Human Studies. London, Sage. • Lechte, J. (1994) Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From structuralism to postmodernity, London, Routledge • Lincoln, Y. S. (2001). 'Engaging Sympathies: Relationships between Action Research and Social Constructivism'. Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice. P. Reason and H. Bradbury. London, Sage: 124-132. • McQueen, R. and K. Knussen (2002). Research Methods for Social Science: an introduction. London, Prentice Hall. • Miles, S. (2001). Social Theory in the Real World. London, Sage. • Park, P. (2001). 'Knowledge and Participatory Research'. Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice. P. Reason and H. Bradbury. London, Sage: 81-90. • Reason, P. and H. Bradbury (2001). 'Introduction: Inquiry and Participation in Search of a World Worthy of Human Aspiration'. Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice. P. Reason and H. Bradbury. London, Sage: 1-14. • Rowan, J. (2001). 'The Humanistic Approach to Action Research'. Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice. P. Reason and H. Bradbury. London, Sage: 114-123.

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