These are the examples of various PhD projects that we will be looking at during the course with reference to how they make method statements of research method and / or research methodology. In each case we are looking for those extracts / sections from the PhD material that address research method / methodology.

These examples are not selected as “good” examples or as examples of “what-you-should-do.” These are chosen as cases, some of which are not so good, and all of which can be examined for different issues and problems. You are asked to evaluate these for yourself.

(i) The doctoral project’s communication of how the research project was organized and conducted: From reading the material, can you tell others anything about how the research was practically done? What information or content might be missing in each example?

(ii) The doctoral project’s quality of argument and discussion with respect to any wider questions of method/methodology that it may address:  From reading the material, what questions do you have for the text? What function does the general discussion serve in relation to the actual research project?

(iii) Can you identify any common themes and/or challenges across the examples you have read? What are these?

(Note: the googledrive * referenced for where things are not already open access online, will be shared with you shortly.)

CRAFT (CERAMICS)

A. Salani, Giorgio (2018) “Chapter 3 Research Methods” in Salience, qualities and narratives in the making of contemporary British hand-thrown tableware. University of the Arts London.  

https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/14059/1/Salani%2C%20G%2C%20CSM%2CThesis%20Folder_DIGITAL%20VERSION.pdfLinks to an external site.

open access

MUSIC

B, Tandberg, Svein Erik (2008) “Chapter 3 Theoretical perspectives” in Imagination, Form, Movement and Sound: Studies in Musical Improvisation, University of Gothenburg.

https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/19090Links to an external site.

open access

PERFORMANCE / THEATRE

C. Krumhobeing, Brad M.  (2018) In Performance: A Philosophical Account of the Embodied Actor, City University of New York.  Extract to read - "The Introduction"

https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3711&context=gc_etdsLinks to an external site.

open access

DESIGN

D. Ávila, Martín (2012) Extracts from Devices. On Hospitality, Hostility and Design, University of Gothenburg.

See https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/2077/28925/1/gupea_2077_28925_1.pdfLinks to an external site. 

See googledrive* for .pdf of relevant extracts

VIDEO

E. Bärtås, Magnus (2010) “Chapter 3 About methodology” in You Told Me – work stories and video essays/ verkberättelser och videoessäer, University of Gothenburg.

https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/22325Links to an external site.

open access

CURATING

F. Mende, Doreen (2013) “Introduction” and first two subsections of ”From the Desert” in THE ITINERANT: On the delayed arrival of images of socialist internationalism that confound contemporary exhibiting processes, Goldsmiths College, University of London.  pp. 14-32.

http://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/11395/Links to an external site.

open access

EDUCATION (DECOLONIAL PRACTICES)

G. Zavala, Miguel (2010) “CHAPTER 3: Methodological Approach To The Study” in An Auto/Ethnography  of Teacher Community  Organizing: Towards A Decolonizing Raza Research Methodology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/docview/861924224?pq-origsite=primoLinks to an external site.

Access is through Gothenburg University Library or through a “ProQuest Dissertations” subscription by your own university library online resources.

See googledrive* for .pdf

COMICS

H. Sousanis, Nick (2014) “Chapter 2 The Importance of Seeing Double and Then Some”, in Unflattening, Teachers College, Columbia University. (Later published in book form by Harvard University Press, 2015.)

See also http://spinweaveandcut.com/unflattening/Links to an external site.

See googledrive* for .pdf

PUBLIC ART / SOCIALLY ENGAGED PRACTICE

I. Lacy, Suzanne (2013) ”Chapter 1 Introduction” in Imperfect art: working in public; a case study of the Oakland Projects (1991-2001), Robert Gordon University.

https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/240070/imperfect-art-working-in-public-a-case-study-of-the-oakland-projects-1991-2001Links to an external site.

open access

J. Hope, Charlotte Sophie (2011) “Chapter 4. Methodology” in Participating in the ‘Wrong’ Way? Practice Based Research into Cultural Democracy and the Commissioning of Art to Effect Social Change, Birkbeck, University of London.

https://www.kultur-vermittlung.ch/zeit-fuer-vermittlung/download/materialpool/MFE0705.pdfLinks to an external site.

https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/246447/participating-in-the-wrong-wayLinks to an external site.

open access