Category: ARTSCHOL 200 2020

Has lockdown caused a certain kind of social alienation that can’t be undone? How can we expect to understand the world without bias when we’re all at home living virtual realities?

In the afterglow of the Power and Equity Research panel there was a growing sense of panic. This panic was rooted in the question: How can a researcher find balance? Each panel member discussed and outlined issues or barriers...

While the panel on power inequity in research presented many ideas to consider, I was particularly drawn to think further about the risks of failing to be reflective about our own positions as researchers. As having the ability...

Although I failed to attend the discussion session with Tracey McIntosh, Jemaima Tiatia-Seath, Nicole Perry and Carisa Showden, I managed to get some ideas off the lecture notes.  Carisa mentioned how much emotions we should...

Good research should never be one-sided, the researcher shouldn’t just be scrawling notes on the little ‘other’ people they observe below them. This discussion made me realise good social research is about bridging the gap...

One of the messages that resonates mostly strongly with me was Carisa Showden’s reminder that the assumptions one brings to the research process need to be treated delicately. It is far to easy to let ill-founded...

Dr Patrick Thomsen’s lecture early this semester stood out to me, for a number of reasons. His open attitude, his area of study, and, most significantly, his research method. Dr Thomsen collected his data through Talanoa,...

Let me start this reflection with a comment going back to the second week of this semester when Patrick Tomsen explained the importance of genealogy, that “it is iterative, living, and shifts with the lived experiences of...