Category: ARTSCHOL 200 2020

Anthropology is fascinating. I love the way it makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar. However, whilst studying it I have often thought about the ethical nature of producing research on a culture that is not your...

Reflecting upon the power and inequity in research panel seems to stir up ideas about the negotiation of power in the research setting. It appears as though this is a complex issue with many answers, however, no completely right...

While the Science Scholars strive for accuracy in their research, we Arts Scholars one-up them by discussing why that accuracy is worth striving for; in arts-speak, we examine the ethical implications of certain discursive...

As a student of Global Studies and Sociology, my learning often centres on people and social structures. This involves a fair amount of generalising and theorising about people whom I have no lived experiences with. For example,...

The Power and Equity in Research Panel made some points that really hit home, for me at least. Jemaima Tiatia-Seath and Daniel Hernandez both talked about being an ‘outsider’ in your field of research: Tiatia-Seath...

There is a fine line researchers walk when it comes to bonds with participants, one that I had never really thought too much about until the session with Tracey McIntosh, Nicole Perry, Carisa Showden and Jemaima Tiatia-Seath....

The research panel discussed the way power sits with those producing academic literature. The production of knowledge historically, and often still today, favours an established western system while side-lining or silencing...

An overarching theme I have observed in this course is that as a researcher, you need to be honest. So the first thing I need to confess is that for reasons beyond my control, I regretfully missed out on a good portion of the...

In reflecting on this seminar, I was drawn to the ideas of Dr Tiatia-Seath as researchers being leaders who serve. This idea was illustrated by a Samoan proverb she shared with us ‘to be a leader one must serve.’ Although the...

On Friday evening while watching One News, my attention was drawn to a graph reporting an increase in the New Zealanders receiving a job seeker benefit due to the COVID 19 pandemic. To an unsuspecting eye, there seemed to be a...