Category: SIPDesign

Reflexivity Statement Questions taken from: Creative Research Methods in the Social Sciences: A Practical Guide Helen Kara Kara, H (2015) Creative Research Methods in the Social Sciences: A Practical Guide. Bristol: Policy Press p.72 How do I define my identity? How does that affect my research practice? I am a black, mixed-race woman who was… Continue reading Reflexivity Statement

Ethics Email This is the email I sent to people I was in meetings with during the focus week. __________________________________________________________________ Hi all! I have been conducting an action research project as part of my PGcert focused on meeting and gathering amongst colleagues. In the first stage, I am analysing through text and image, a combination… Continue reading Ethics Email

PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication Self-initiated Project Ethical Enquiry Form Participant name: Miriam Elgon Cohort: A Tutor name: Catherine Smith/John O’Reilly Please describe your research question (or focus of your research):   Can I meet with my colleagues in a more intentional way?   When I use  ‘intention’ I mean it as… Continue reading Ethics Form 2

Can you in a sentence describe ‘intentional’. And in a couple of sentences preamble, what is your ‘concern’ (in the language of AR). Yes, done. When I use  ‘intention’ I mean it as ‘deliberate’ (Collins, 2022) and also to have a greater consciousness to and knowledge of the experience and activity of meeting. In terms… Continue reading Ethics Feedback Response

PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication Self-initiated Project Ethical Enquiry Form Participant name: Miriam Elgon Cohort: A Tutor name: Catherine Smith/John O’Reilly Please describe your research question (or focus of your research):   Can I meet with my colleagues in a more intentional way?   Who will be providing you with information to… Continue reading Ethics Form 1

Choosing experience-based and arts-based methods My use of these methods fits into a larger context where research has increasingly been becoming more ‘sensory and embodied.’ (Pink, 2015, p.1276 cited in Brown and Collins, 2021) A change has occurred in what is considered data (Brown and Collins, 2021, p.1275), the idea that some methods are more… Continue reading Design Reflection

Action Plan 2 1.Design Reading and Planning 2. Gather Recorded formal and informal meetings for one week Kept a text and visual diary recording the experience of being in the meetings. Text Material: Brief Descriptive Notes Visual Material: Diagrams: Physical Set-Up Shapes: Tone and Action Colours: Emotions Images: Tone, Action and Emotion 3. Analyse Analysed… Continue reading Action Plan 2

1.Record and Read Record formal and informal meetings in a fixed period of time Formal Meeting – Audio Recorder Informal Meetings and feelings about all meetings – Diary (2 weeks) Read about Different aspects of meeting, talking and interaction The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker Good to Great, Jim Collins Dare to Lead, Brene Brown… Continue reading Action Plan 1