Opal Edmonds Middlesex BA Corse

  Methodology  1) Getting a overview of how you used it tell how the research unfolded? what approach was taken?  what data collection did you do?  How did it go from you plans?  how did it actually go?  how did this shape your project?  2) How did you analyse your data?  Autoethnography - how you notice the shift within yourself?  where is the material coming from?  Notice what changes be self reflective  where there any surprises? talk about assumptions  3) position of the researcher  - insider outsider perspective  - your lived experiences in you culture or environment  - distansiation is when you distance yourself from your study  Exercise  Where I am a insider - I am a performer researching performance techniques  Where I am an outsider - I am cannot also be an audience member at the same time.  be self aware of the people you talk about be pathetic to their background.  intersubject...

  Module 3 week 3  What is analysis?   - what is it made of?  - how do they relate to each other?  - why dose it actually work?  - how can we relate this further?  Offer a suggestion and solution to your topics  Refer to yourself and your practice when on this topic, what are you then taking forward, triangulation as said before  You can write from a you perspective then go to data or start at data and then go to you.  The stair case  - description - you don't need to dwell on this  - analysis - you need to try and go beyond, presenting argument, also within the big argument of your topic.  - evolution - most words on this  Themes  - Work backwards  - look in the themes in the literature, and data and link, refer throughout. 

Module 3, lesson 1 - Intro  Research terms:  - qualitative- personal to the person ie interviews / quantitive - numbers figures facts , servays, data  - embodied knowledge - dualistic  - mixed  - fieldwork  - autoethnographic  - data  - bias  Ethnography  - study of lived culture  - study of people and culture  - insider perspective  - interviews  Analysis   - what the effect is  - objectively looking at facts and making sense of it  - looking for patterns  - questioning  - thematic analysis , external factors effecting reserch  Phenomenology  - cause and effect  - how things happened why it happened what influenced it.  - focused on re accoutring events  - wider impact of it, socially etc  Hermeneutics  - study of interpretation  - seeing the layers of meaning  - can be interpreted in different ways  Triangulation  - your experience ...

 Module 2 , How to do presentations:  - keep presentation colours easy to read, keep video panel open. go for about 10 - 13 - points per slide you can do quotes videos  - don't overload slides, no more then 5 points  - have the information match what your saying  - don't just read a script out.  Structuring the presentation:  1) introduce yourself and your topic 2)why is it important  3) lit review, who's already written about it what did they say.  4) data collection, how you intend to collect data  5) what do you want to achieve by doing this reserch  6) summerise have refrances at the end

 Interviews  Qualitative date is used in interviews, the more form is help make sure everything is done properly.  Tip 1 - When is the best time to interview , you want them to be subjective and how there feeling there and then.  Tip 2 - You need to know and research your data before you sit down to interview.  Tip 3 - If you're going to record you need to gain consent in the recording, and also have them sign a consent form.  let them know they can access the data after you.  Tip 4 - Get a good space to do it. quiet.  Tip 5 - You don't need to transcribe your interview just take the parts you want, but use the quotes.  Tip 6 - Recognise cultural differences  Tip 7 - build a report, let them know what you do. you can restructure the question.  Tip 8 - Intersubjective digilogue, maybe sometimes the way the say things is a better way off saying It and to change you labeling  How to construct and make a interview - 10 questions in...

 Research Methods and Methodology: How am I going to approach these methods?  - Methodology is the approach and the method is how you find your information. we are aiming for a qualitative research by looking at peoples experiences.  - So we look to interviews and focus groups with open ended questions or shorter ones.  - We can also use observations to achieve this. you can give yourself a criteria and check list when doing an observation as it helps direct and keep the work specific.  - Ethnographic research is when you yourself is within the research. it will be helpful to look a research design. - Make sure your a tool in your research, you could keep a diary/reflections - Show understanding and consideration when you give a proposal.  Some ideas question to take as my project:   How do performers use storytelling to deepen their performances? Is storytelling the main way in which performers get inspiration for new work?  - no verbal storytell...