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Bex Hewett on 23 Dec 10

Using blogs as a diary in research

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Heather Davis on 24 Dec 10

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

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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 <a href="http://thethesiswhisperer.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/social-media-and-your-phd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://thethesiswhisperer.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/social-media-and-your-phd</a></div>

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Constructivist Realism: An Ontology That Encompasses Positivist and Constructivist Appr... - 1 views

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Positivism & Post-Positivism - 1 views

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Positivism & Post-Positivism
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  This has been a useful short article for me - research philosophy is something that I "struggle" to get to grips with. Decided to spend Xmas trying(!) to understand it all...
  
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The purpose of science is simply to stick to what we can observe and measure. Knowledge of anything beyond that, a positivist would hold, is impossible.
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We use deductive reasoning to postulate theories that we can test.
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The positivist believed in empiricism -- the idea that observation and measurement was the core of the scientific endeavor.
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post-positivism is a wholesale rejection of the central tenets of positivism
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One of the most common forms of post-positivism is a philosophy called critical realism.
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Positivists were also realists. The difference is that the post-positivist critical realist recognizes that all observation is fallible and has error and that all theory is revisable.
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the critical realist is critical of our ability to know reality with certainty
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Because all measurement is fallible, the post-positivist emphasizes the importance of multiple measures and observations, each of which may possess different types of error, and the need to use triangulation across these multiple errorful sources to try to get a better bead on what's happening in reality.
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The post-positivist also believes that all observations are theory-laden and that scientists (and everyone else, for that matter) are inherently biased by their cultural experiences, world views, and so on.
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post-positivism rejects the relativist idea of the incommensurability of different perspectives, the idea that we can never understand each other because we come from different experiences and cultures.
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Most post-positivists are constructivists who believe that we each construct our view of the world based on our perceptions of it. Because perception and observation is fallible, our constructions must be imperfect.
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Post-positivists reject the idea that any individual can see the world perfectly as it really is. We are all biased and all of our observations are affected (theory-laden). Our best hope for achieving objectivity is to triangulate across multiple fallible perspectives!
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The value of a PhD - Plenty of Room Blog | Nature Publishing Group - 1 views

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Bex Hewett on 22 Dec 10

Why the value of a PhD is much more than the salary you earn at the end of it!

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Bex Hewett on 22 Dec 10

I completely agree with this article - if you're doing a PhD just to get a bigger salary at the end of it then you're probably doing it for the wrong reasons!

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Debbie Prescott on 23 Dec 10

I think the value of a PhD is "personal growth" and improvement (no matter how slushy that sounds). For me that's been the most noticeable thing and by far the best. Bex, I agree - I doubt the financial rewards (if any) would keep me going!

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Synopsis of "That's Interesting!" by Murray Davis - 0 views

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An ethnography by any other name - 1 views

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