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Michelle A. Hoyle

How I Talk About Searching, Discovery and Research in Courses « Easily Distra... - 0 views

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    "I recently boiled down some of the advice I try to give students about how to carry out searches and formulate research questions, which I'll reproduce here. I start with the basic insight that I've picked up from Swarthmore's library staff, that the point where many students struggle in research is not with finding credible or authoritative sources once they've settled on a topic but with understanding what is researchable or knowable within the constraints of the assignment, the resources, the disciplinary framework and so on. I feel as if too many of my colleagues are still focused on the former issue rather than the latter one, still too worried that students aren't finding the "right" sources that have scholarly legitimacy in favor of Wikipedia or whatever they can find on as full-text at 2 a.m. I don't think this is a big issue both because I have a much higher opinion of Wikipedia and such than many of my colleagues and because I find that students actually have fairly good skills for finding properly authoritative sources and material. As long as they've gotten the research framed correctly at the outset, that is. So what I focus on is processes of discovery that students should use to find out what's known and knowable, how researchable a particular question is, what the shape or character of information about that question looks like, and how to make smart decisions about where to invest labor and time in developing a research assignment. "
Heather Davis

The concept of 'researcher as research instrument' within the hinterlands of research - 1 views

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    The notion of researcher as research instrument is a central one to most qualitative inquiry. This is a blog and readings I posted after giving a presentation to the QI SIG at RMIT in May 2009.
Michelle A. Hoyle

Social Research Methods Toolkits (from the ESRC National Centre for Research ... - 0 views

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    Can be interesting, complex, and experimental in themselves. Realities is part of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods, based in the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Live at the University of Manchester. Here we find out what Realities Toolkits are, and give links and abstracts for a small selection of the resources. Text taken directly from an email sent by the Morgan Centre, to the 'postgrad' academic JISC email list:
Bex Hewett

Research Questions-Characteristics-Worksheet.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 2 views

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    Useful discussion on explaining the tension that should be inherent in RQs to grab attention and establish the importance of research
Bex Hewett

Essential Guide to Doing a Research Project - 1 views

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    Some really useful powerpoint slides designed to accompany Zina O'Leary's "Doing Your Research Project" - covering everything included in the general research process
Bex Hewett

Qualitative blog diaries - 2 views

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    Using blogs as a diary in research
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    Thanks for this Bex, it's always good to get references to this sort of material. I have had a research blog since Nov 2008 and see it as a way to strengthen 'the researcher as research instrument' that is me. I wrote a guest post on thethesiswhisper.wordpress.com blog a couple of months ago on social media and the phd and there are a few more references in that. See http://thethesiswhisperer.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/social-media-and-your-phd
Heather Davis

Feudalism and academia: UK academics' accounts of research culture - International Jour... - 0 views

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    [Article] Feudalism & academia: UK academics' accounts of research culture http://is.gd/k72Ae (Int J Qual Studies in Education) #KM $
Jeffrey Keefer

Online QDA - Welcome to online QDA - 1 views

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    Online QDA is a set of learning materials which address common issues of undertaking qualitative data analysis (QDA) and beginning to use Computer Assisted Qualitative Data AnalysiS (CAQDAS) packages. We aim to complement courses run by, for example, the CAQDAS Networking project, many independent trainers and the large number of undergraduate and postgraduate social sciences research methods training courses.
Liz Thackray

Social Science PhD Internships at Microsoft Research New England (Spring & Summer 2011) - 0 views

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    If only I was a bit younger - this looks like a super opportunity for anybody with the space in their life to follow up on it
Jeffrey Keefer

From activity to learning: using cultural historical activity theory to model school li... - 3 views

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    Research project on using CHAT, Cultural Historical Activity Theory, in a project about library programmes, showing the steps in using the methodology.
Michelle A. Hoyle

Who cares about authority?! « The Thesis Whisperer - 0 views

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    "Your librarian tries to ensure that what goes on the shelves is authoritative, but it goes without saying that you will be much more of an expert in some aspects of your field. This means you have to accept some of the responsibility for checking out your sources. Are they fit for purpose? Postgraduates should think about authority too. When you're researching a subject, you need to be sure that your sources are authoritative. This is of paramount importance when you come to write your literature review or to cite references in the body of your thesis."
Ailsa Haxell

An ethnography by any other name - 1 views

Agar, M. (2006). An ethnography by any other name... Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 7(4). Retrieved from http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/a...

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started by Ailsa Haxell on 09 Jan 11 no follow-up yet
Debbie Prescott

The Qualitative Report: An online bi-monthly journal dedicated to qualitative research ... - 1 views

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    Bex Hewett posted a link from this journal earlier on blog diaries. This is the home page. I've just got some useful information about using a case study from here (vol 3, issue 4). Useful journal! Thought it was worth posting again :-)
Bex Hewett

The Anatomy of a Perfect Landing Page - Formstack - 2 views

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    Useful tips for making a webpage engaging and giving the right message from the off. Useful tips for research blogs!
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    Thanks Bex, to this i would add http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html people scan online in an F shape, so position whats there accordingly
Bex Hewett

Developing a Research Question - 1 views

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    From bedfordresearcher.com
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