During this second term module students trial the research methods identified in their research proposals. The module provides a forum for students to discuss and present their work in peer tutorial groups as they design, develop and execute a pilot study or element of their research using methodologies and techniques appropriate to their chosen dissertation. Student groups and faculty input are thus structured in response to the methodologies  identified across student proposals at the end of the first term. The module will support media and methods with their research origins in the arts, design and social sciences. The module culminates with a research seminar and exhibit/artefact which together communicate and contextualise both the findings of the pilot study and the research processes employed.  

World Literature in Theory provides a definitive exploration of the pressing questions facing those studying world literature today. Coverage is split into four parts which examine the origins and seminal formulations of world literature, world literature in the age of globalization, contemporary debates on world literature, and localized versions of world literature Contains more than 30 important theoretical essays by the most influential scholars, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hugo Meltzl, Edward Said, Franco Moretti, Jorge Luis Borges, and Gayatri Spivak Includes substantive introductions to each essay, as well as an annotated bibliography for further reading Allows students to understand, articulate, and debate the most important issues in this rapidly changing field of study

This reader-friendly book examines the ethical issues and questions that occur in university and professional research and will help both beginning and experienced researchers to identify ethical issues when they are conducting research.

Many students are unaware of how to get the most out of their research, whether in career terms or in terms of asking good research questions. This book addresses this issue, as well as dealing with how to move from the big picture to a specific research question.

This book takes a fresh "how to" approach to Practice as Research. At the "performance turn" it argues that old prejudices should be abandoned and that a PaR methodology and its modes of "doing-knowing" should be fully accepted in the academy. It refines Robin Nelson's earlier models for PaR but sustains the dynamic and dialogic interplay between different modes of knowledge-production in a multi-mode research inquiry. It advances strategies for articulating and evidencing the research inquiry and offers practical guidance to practitioner-researchers on how to conduct a PaR inquiry. With reference to examples drawn from a decade of supervisory, examining and audit experience, Nelson addresses - and offers answers to - the many questions students, professional practitioner-researchers, regulators and examiners have posed in this domain. To broaden the perspective and take account of differing levels of acceptance and development of programmes in PaR around the word, in Part II of the book six international contributors respond to Part I and afford cross-sights from the standpoint of their territory.

Creative Research leads the reader through the key knowledge, practices and skills of research methods in the study of design management and focuses on defining the research problem, deciding on a research process and undertaking a research project as a student at undergraduate or postgraduate level or as a practitioner within the creative fields. In addition to this, techniques and procedures for collecting and analysing different types of data are examined and analysed in detail. The skills necessary to promote the effectiveness and validity of research within the creative industries are highlighted in case studies, all of which also demonstrate what a well-designed research project can achieve.

Beginning your research project:

Please note that your supervisor will also recommend resources to support your specialism and/or field

• Austin, J. L. (1975). How to do things with words. England: Oxford University Press.
• Candy, L. (2006). Practice based research: A guide. CCS Report, 1, 1-19.
• Crotty, M. (1998). The foundations of social research. Meaning and perspective in the research process [google books version]. Retrieved from https://play.google.com/books.
• Evan s, D., Gruba, P., & Zobel, J. (2011). How to write a better thesis [google books version]. Retrieved from https://play.google.com/books.
• Holliday, A. (2002). Doing and writing qualitative research [google books version]. Retrieved from https://play.google.com/books.
• Huber, A., (2017). Telling the Design Story. Taylor & Francis.  ISBN 9781351849210 ISBN-13 1351849212
• Malins, J., Gray, C., Bunnell, K., & Wheeler, E. (1995). Appropriate Research Methodologies for Artists, Designers, and Craftspersons: Research as a Learning Process. Malins and Gray.
• McNiff, S. (2008). Art-based research. Handbook of the arts in qualitative research, 29-40.
• Ridley, D. (2012). The literature review: A step-by-step guide for students. Sage.
• Thomas, G. (2013). How to do your research project: A guide for students in education and applied social sciences.  London : SAGE Publications.
• Wolcott, H. F. (2005). The art of fieldwork (2nd ed.) [google books version]. Retrieved from https://play.google.com/books.

Methods and Methodologies:

These resources relate to a range of research methodologies. Some of them may be of use to you.

• Crotty, M. (1998). The foundations of social research. Meaning and perspective in the research process [google books version]. Retrieved from https://play.google.com/books.
• Denscombe, M. (2010). The Good research guide for small-scale social research projects (4th ed.). England: Open University Press.
• Derry, S. J., Pea, R. D., Barron, B., Engle, R. A., Erickson, F., Goldman, R., …& Sherin, B. L. (2010). Conducting video research in the learning sciences: guidance on selection, analysis, technology, and ethics. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 19(1), 3-53.
• Gee, J. P. (2014). An introduction to discourse analysis, theory and method (4th ed.) [google books version]. Retrieved from https://play.google.com/books.
• Golden-Biddle, K., & Locke, K. (2007). Composing qualitative research [google books version]. Retrieved from https://play.google.com/books.
• Holstein, J, A., & Gubrium, J. (2004). The active interview. In D. Silverman (Ed.), Qualitative Research: theory, method and practice (pp.140-161) (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA, USA: SAGE Publications Inc.
• Jewitt, C. (2009). (Ed.). The routledge handbook of multimodal analysis [google books version]. Retrieved from https://play.google.com/books.
• Kress, G., & van Leeuwen, T. (2006). Reading images. The grammar of visual design (2nd ed.). London, England: Routledge.
• Lofland, J., & Lofland, L. H. (2006). Analyzing social settings (4th ed.). Belmont, CA, USA: Wadsworth Publishing Company.
• Marton, F. (1981). Phenomenography—describing conceptions of the world around us. Instructional Science, 10(2), 177-200. DOI: 10.1007/BF00132516
• McNiff, J. & Whitehead, J. (2003). Action research: principles and practice (2nd ed.). London, England: RoutledgeFalmer
• Miles, M. B., Huberman, M. A., & Saldaña, J. (2014). Qualitative data analysis. A methods sourcebook (3rd ed.) [Kindle E-Reader version]. Retrieved from www.amazon.co.uk.
• Mondada, L. (2012). Video analysis and the temporality of inscriptions within social interaction: the case of architects at work. Qualitative Research, 12(3), 304-333. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1468794112438149.
• Norris, S. (2004). Analyzing multimodal interaction: a methodological framework [google books version]. Retrieved from https://play.google.com/books.
• Poland, B. D. (1995). Transcription quality as an aspect of rigor in qualitative research. Qualitative inquiry, 1(3), 290-310. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/107780049500100302.
• Poland, B. D. (2001). Transcription quality. In J. F. Gubrium & J. A. Holstein (Eds.), Handbook of interview research: context and method (pp.629-649). California, USA: SAGE Publications, Inc.

• Price,D.D; Barrell J.J.  (2012) Inner experience and Nueroscience- merging both perspectives. Kindle Edition: MIT Press.

• Saldaña, J. (2016). The coding manual for qualitative researchers (3rd ed.) [Kindle E-Reader version]. Retrieved from www.amazon.co.uk.
• Silverman, D. (2011). Interpreting qualitative data (4th ed.) [google books version]. Retrieved from https://play.google.com/books.

• Smith, P.; Flowers, P.; Larkin, M. (2009) Interpretative phenomenological analysis: theory, method and research. London: Sage.

• Snow, D. A., Morrill, C., & Anderson, L. (2003). Elaborating analytic ethnography: Linking fieldwork and theory. Ethnography, 4(2), 181-200. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24047808.
• Stake, R. (2005). Qualitative case studies. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), The Sage handbook of qualitative research (pp. 443-466). Thousand Oaks, CA, USA: SAGE Publications.

• Sullivan, G. (2010) Arts practice as research- inquiry in visual arts (2^nd edition). Los Angeles: Sage.

• Thomas, G. (2010). Doing case study: abduction not induction, phronesis not theory. Qualitative Inquiry, 16(7), 575-582. DOI: 10.1177/1077800410372601.
• Thomas, G. (2013). How to do your research project: A guide for students in education and applied social sciences (2nd ed.) [Kindle E-Reader version]. Retrieved from www.amazon.co.uk.
• Thomas, G. (2016). How to do case study (2nd ed.) [Kindle E-Reader version]. Retrieved from www.amazon.co.uk.

• Van Manen, M. (1990) Researching Lived Experience: human Science for an action sensitive pedagogy. New York: The State University of New York Press.

• Varela, F. J. and Shear, J. (1999) First-person methodologies: What, why, how, Journal of Consciousness studies, 6 (2-3), 1-14. Available from: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.451.1585&rep=rep1&type=pdf [Accessed 9 July 2016].

• VOICE Project, (2007). VOICE transcription conventions [2.1]. Retrieved June, 29, 2016 from
• https://www.univie.ac.at/voice/documents/VOICE_mark-up_conventions_v2-1.pdf.
• Wolcott, H. F. (2002). Writing up qualitative research... better. Qualitative Health Research, 12(1), 91-103. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1049732302012001007.
• Wolcott, H. F. (2005). The art of fieldwork (2nd ed.) [google books version]. Retrieved from https://play.google.com/books.
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