Category: ARTSCHOL 200 2020

Stephen Winter’s research is undoubtedly useful. When asked about how he became interested in his research on abuse, he answered because of its relevance. His research is immediately useful for the whole world. It is a...

What’s relevant to you? Seems like a broad question, but relevance can produce greater effects than we might expect.   Jennifer Frost’s research into the 26th amendment and the progression of youth voting rights in...

As a researcher, it is often easy to lose your goal during research as you become exposed to more knowledge. The staggering amount of sources that are available for study can at times seem overwhelming, and against this...

  Research is inherently scientific, whether us Arts students would like to admit it or not. However, common-sense understandings of research are inherently based on a Western construction of “science”, thus, can scientific...

What does it mean to be “of age” or to be deserving of political inclusion? Kiwis who are too young either to vote or to be taken seriously by adults often undertake actions which are quietly political anyway.  For example,...

Erin Griffey’s research showed Renaissance women were obsessed with ‘natural beauty’, wanting clear, luminous skin, healthy hair and a slim yet curvy figure. What I found really interesting was how these feminine beauty ideals...

Victoria Munn and Erin Griffey’s research is centralised around ideas of beauty in the Renaissance age and how the ideals, methods of beauty inform or parallel with our own understandings of beauty in 21st century in the western...

Patrick Thomsen’s seminar on genealogies of knowledge and the construction of research questions made me reflect on why I even want to do research. He described the complexities of the social world, such as how the several...

Research by Stephen Winter aimed to tell the stories of people who made claims of historic abuse in New Zealand state care and to investigate New Zealand’s monetary redress program.    I found this research intriguing as a...