Lecture- Research and Epistomology

Key points for preparing a research project:

- Embrace the fact you don't know things, that's how progress is made.

- Connection making increases ideas- what you know vs what you don't know, and who does know-> benefit of group crits

- Get out there and BE PROACTIVE, think of new and useful ways to gather research

- Some parts have to be put to the side, as topic should be very direct-> put it on the back burner and allow it to still inform practice

"Research is creating new knowledge" - Neil Armstrong

Research is NEW, the purpose to research is to fit the brief

Broader research- scope and scale, driven by CoP module, going out and getting primary research-grade makes it relevant

3000 word limit put on to limit size and scale and scope of research

How does what you want to learn fit into the CoP module?

Individual and as discipline, paradigm positions-everyones is individual, helps to define question

What is there to study? (Ontology- About knowledge itself)
How can we know about it? (Epistemology)

Ontology
- The philosophical analysis of what is or can be known
- What can be known? e.g. number of people in a room (like quantitive)
- How appropriate?

Epistemology
- Analysis of scope and nature of knowledge
- How can we know it?
- Know because you're part of that circumstance
- Know because we read/saw it

Knowledge is the overlap between facts and opinions (objective and subjective)

-Using experiences/beliefs, then what are you going to prove? Combine with facts to show

-Research question will be changed in reflection to findings

Methodology includes- Approaches, techniques, analysis and interpretation

Methodology creates data