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Learning to be a better researcher… by being a research participant
Researchers are egocentric… the research they do stems from their interests and motivations. That’s a given. Within interpretive research methodologies this egocentric position is tempered by the...
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case study ~ research design, methodology, method?
Since the early 80s when I did my MA degree I have been steeped in “case study research,” and I have the deepest respect for those who have articulated the importance of focusing on the particular in...
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learning by example
If you think you will do interpretive or critical research it will be helpful to see what this kind of research looks like. Reading other studies is a window into the research process as well as the...
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methodology as recipe
A challenging idea for many graduate students learning how to do interpretive and critical research is that one must make a commitment to a research methodology. The two most common errors/scenarios...
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Filmmaking and Research
Can filmmaking deepen and broaden the scope of rigorous scholarship? On June 27, 2016, Joel Bakan, Phillip Vannini and Charles Menzies discussed this question. Organized by UBC’s Public Scholars...
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narrative and social change
There is the telling of a story and the hearing of a story. Researchers often focus on telling the story, whether it is an individual, organizational or cultural story. If narrative is a fundamental as...
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narrative inquiry ~ what does it look like?
If you are searching for understanding about what narrative inquiry is, here are some starting points. There are a number of journals that focus exclusively on narrative analysis/inquiry and so you...
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A very short note on mixed methods
The many guises of mixed methods… Mixed methods are used when there are two or more types of: ➢ research questions ➢ sampling procedures ➢ data collection procedures ➢ data ➢ data analysis ➢...
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Inclusive, anti-racist writing & knowledge representation
The new semester begins for many Universities with a ‘scholar strike,’ an action to draw attention to the Black Lives Matter movement, but also to all forms of racism and the privilege that many Whites...
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Indigenous and anti-racist methodologies
This new semester begins for many Universities with a ‘scholar strike,’ an action to draw attention to the Black Lives Matter movement, but also to all forms of racism and the privilege that many...
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