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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...

ethnography

started by Ailsa Haxell on 09 Jan 11 no follow-up yet
Heather Davis

http://metatheoria.com.ar/Index.php/m/article/viewFile/32/16 - 5 views

metatheoria.com.ar/...16

philosophy methodology metatheory

shared by Heather Davis on 06 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Heather Davis on 06 Jan 11
     
    The nature and structure of scientific theories, Moulines, 2010
  • Ailsa Haxell on 09 Jan 11
     
    Thanks for posting this Heather, I found it useful in clarifying what is/isnt theory, and differentiating between theories that get referred to as weak or strong
Heather Davis

Understanding Diagrams - 0 views

www.factoryschool.com/...whatis.html

phdchat

shared by Heather Davis on 05 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Heather Davis on 05 Jan 11
     
    RT @brendam: Diagrammatica: a collection of graphic images that show another way to see theoretical arguments http://bit.ly/eAhECW #phdchat
Heather Davis

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

www.informaworld.com/...ntent=a931812457~frm=titlelink

HE research

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  • Heather Davis on 05 Jan 11
     
    [Article] Feudalism & academia: UK academics' accounts of research culture http://is.gd/k72Ae (Int J Qual Studies in Education) #KM $
Jane Davis

Phdchat 24 November 2010 - 1 views

www.scribd.com/...Phdchat-24-November-2010

PhD

shared by Jane Davis on 03 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Jane Davis on 03 Jan 11
     
    Phdchat archive 24th November 2010
Jane Davis

YouTube - Grounded theorists and some critiques of grounded theory - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

grounded theory PhD

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  • Jane Davis on 03 Jan 11
     
    A simple outline of criticisms of grounded theory. Mainly a lack of practicality for Phd students, institutional requirements and non-adherence
Jane Davis

YouTube - Grounded Theory - Core Elements. Part 1 - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

grounded theory PhD youtube

shared by Jane Davis on 03 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Jane Davis on 03 Jan 11
     
    Very straightforward introduction to Grounded Theory in standard lecture mode
Jane Davis

How big is my topic? | Brains - 2 views

brains.parslow.net/1639

PhD Parslow

shared by Jane Davis on 28 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Jane Davis on 28 Dec 10
     
    Really interesting post on the 'concept' ...
Heather Davis

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

leadershipliteracies.wordpress.com/...earcher-as-research-instrument

qualitative inquiry researcher as research instrument

shared by Heather Davis on 24 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Heather Davis on 24 Dec 10
     
    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.
Bex Hewett

Qualitative blog diaries - 2 views

www.nova.edu/...index.html

qualitative diary

shared by Bex Hewett on 23 Dec 10 - No Cached
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  • Bex Hewett on 23 Dec 10
     
    Using blogs as a diary in research
  • 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
E Jackson

Home - 0 views

www.socialresearchmethods.net/...index.php

research methods methodology reference PhD academic qualitative

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  • Hans Oberg on 22 Dec 10
     
    Research Methods Knowledge Base
E Jackson

Positivism & Post-Positivism - 1 views

www.socialresearchmethods.net/...positvsm.php

shared by E Jackson on 23 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Positivism & Post-Positivism
    • E Jackson
      E Jackson on 23 Dec 10
       
      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...
  • 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.
  • We use deductive reasoning to postulate theories that we can test.
  • ...10 more annotations...
  • The positivist believed in empiricism -- the idea that observation and measurement was the core of the scientific endeavor.
  • post-positivism is a wholesale rejection of the central tenets of positivism
  • One of the most common forms of post-positivism is a philosophy called critical realism.
  • 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.
  • the critical realist is critical of our ability to know reality with certainty
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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!
Bex Hewett

The value of a PhD - Plenty of Room Blog | Nature Publishing Group - 1 views

blogs.nature.com/...the-value-of-a-phd

PhD

shared by Bex Hewett on 22 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • 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!
  • 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!
  • 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!
Bex Hewett

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

www.sfu.ca/interest.htm

theory building PhD

shared by Bex Hewett on 22 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Bex Hewett on 22 Dec 10
     
    Paper about what makes a social theory "interesting" from 1971
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