Practice-Based Research in the Humanities

Practice-Based Research in the Humanities

Session facilitator: Dr Robert Edgar This session is intended to present theories associated with practice-based research (PBR) in the Humanities, with a focus on literature and creative writers. The aim of this session is for Practice Based Researchers to further contextualise their practice. This includes some notes on reflection, autoethnography and reflective practice. This session would be useful for students undertaking PBR, staff supervising PBR and for PBR supervisors who are building resources for UKCGE applications. Learning Outcomes To develop an understanding of theories of practice based research To connect existing modes creative practice to practice-based research methodologies To understand the function of reflection and iteration as a core methodological approach This session will take place in QS/111 (Quad South lecture theatre). To book your place via Eventbrite, please click here....
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Qualitative research beyond the interview: creative and visual methods

Qualitative research beyond the interview: creative and visual methods

  Session facilitator: Dr Dai O'Brien There are many qualitative data collection tools which can be exciting and creative to use, either as stand-alone methods or in combination with interviews. In this session Dai will reflect on some of the creative, visual data collection tools he has used in his own research and give demonstrations of these methods. Learning Objectives At the end of this session, attendees will be able to: Choose a creative and visual qualitative research tool suited to their needs Recognize the strengths and weaknesses of different visual/creative qualitative data collection approaches Perform qualitative research using a range of visual and creative approaches This session will take place in HG/137. Please click here to reserve your place via Eventbrite....
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Ethnographic Fieldwork

Ethnographic Fieldwork

Session Facilitator: Professor Lee Higgins In this session, we will discuss an ethnographic approach to research with particular attention to participant observation. We will locate the strategy as a form of qualitative research developing from anthropology. Examples will be predominantly taken from an ethnomusicological perspective and provide an opportunity to critically consider the approach. Learning Outcomes: Contextual understanding of ethnography Examples of implementation This session is taking place in HG137 To book a ticket, please visit Ethnographic Fieldwork Tickets...
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Creative Methods in Research

Creative Methods in Research

Creative Methods in Research – Discussion and Clinic Divine Charura and Matthew Reason   The use of creative methods in research – including drawing, photography, creative writing, collaging, vlogging and more –  is now established across disciplines ranging from health to education, psychology to the arts. Creative methods involve inviting participants to engage in an active creative task through which they can communicate their lived experiences and draw out insights and meanings. It has particular affordances in exploring experiences that might resist verbal articulation, whether affective, traumatic, emotional, aesthetic, and when working with individuals or groups who might be resistant to traditional research methodologies.  In this session Divine Charura (counselling psychology) and Matthew Reason (arts) will share examples of the use of creative methods in their own research and discuss its potential, its challenges and is practice.  As well as discussion, we also hope the session will act as a ‘clinic’, in which anyone attending can bring along their own experiences or plans for using...
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Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling

Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling

Session facilitated by Dr Robert Vaughan A beginners introduction into the popular structural equation modelling software MPlus. This session will introduce beginners to the basic commands and procedures needed to analyses quantitative data using a range of flexible yet powerful analytical techniques. No experience is needed and example results will be provided so that students can refer back to this session with their own data. Learning outcomes: How to upload, save, and open data on MPlus. Basic introduction to the Mplus language. How to interpret basic Mplus output. This session is taking place on Microsoft Teams, and may be recorded. ...
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Speaking and writing your thesis

Speaking and writing your thesis

Facilitator: Professor John Tribe Session Overview: PhD students devote a huge amount of time to their research methods, data collection and analysis. They are then often left to get on with the writing and sometimes completely overwhelmed by the task of compiling a thesis of 80000 words. But writing requires just as much care as the research itself. This session will discuss the elements of good writing. In fact it will encourage you to take pride in beautiful writing which is a delight to the reader. And we’ll also think about how to make your research presentations engaging too.   Learning Outcomes: 1. Reflect on and improve the writing of your PhD 2. Reflect on and improve the speaking of your PhD This session will be recorded. ...
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The Conversation media training

The Conversation media training

Facilitator: Jack Marley RDF Indicator: A1 Programme: PGR Research Skills Programme 2021-22 Theme: Academic Skills Session Overview: The Conversation is a news analysis and opinion platform of articles written by academics and funded by more than 70 UK and European universities. Working with an editor, researchers write short pieces that deliver academic expertise directly to the public. York St John University has partnered with The Conversation since 2018, with our academics amassing a readership of well over a million people via the platform. If you’ve not written for The Conversation before or would just like a refresher session, please come along to one of the online workshops that are being run exclusively for members of the academic community at York St John. You’ll gain valuable insights into writing for a general audience and find out what The Conversation can offer for your research and academic profile. The workshops are run on Zoom by an editor from The Conversation, and you only need to attend one. Booking is essential and places are limited....
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Theory, media and film

Theory, media and film

Session facilitator: Professor Steve Rawle Session Overview: There are so few academic disciplines as publicly maligned as Film and Media Studies (now often under the umbrella of Screen Studies), despite the centrally of forms of media to our everyday lives. Yet, Media Studies remains a political hot potato. In a discipline where there are also sharp divides between theory and practice, this raises the question of how Film and Media Studies theorises contemporary media cultures and defines its political contribution and impact.  How should you approach systematic searching for theoretical literature? When does theorising stop and critique or other methods begin? This session draws on a near-20-year journey in film and cultural theory, often at the lower-end of cultural distinction. It considers how to approach ‘theory’ as both an object and a critical framework, including: methods for evaluating and synthesising theory; theoretically-informed criticism; the ethics of theory; and generating impact as a theorist.   Learning Outcomes: Identifying appropriate theoretical approaches The pitfalls of theory and theorising To book your place, use this link to Eventbrite here: Book now...
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Transforming Creative Practice into a Creative Research Project

Transforming Creative Practice into a Creative Research Project

Session facilitator: Associate Professor Vanessa Corby, Professor of Theory, History and Practice of Art All processes of making be they in the disciplines of creative writing, design, performance, fine art, film or music, I would argue, can be research driven. They engage with a field but find it wanting; there’s a gap to be filled, an itch to scratch, something to be said, an experience to be shared or rearticulated. When that’s not the case, in my experience, there’s a tendency to find the practice wanting, because it can lack conviction, integrity and, to parrot the REF, originality, significance and rigour. Learning Outcomes: This workshop offers strategies to identify, articulate and pursue the research dimensions of practice. As such it will be useful for postgraduate researchers who need to meet the learning outcomes set for their programmes and practice-based staff who work within the definitions of research set by the REF. Rather than present a toolkit of how to academicize your work to...
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Democratic methodologies – Whose voices are heard?

Democratic methodologies – Whose voices are heard?

At a time of flux in the world when we are seeing democratic decay in a range of countries and environments, democratic methodologies are necessary in research to further democracy on a micro and macro level. This session will explore how we might consider different voices in research and the ethical issues that might arise. Learning Outcomes: 1) Participants will have a good understanding of what Democratic Methodologies are. 2) Participants will understand the need for Democratic Methodologies in a range of research settings. 3) Participants will engage with a range of ethics conundrums. Book now This session will be recorded....
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