Featured Image: section of Royston High Street, East by Leigh
22 Nov 2019
So formative Presentation is on Wednesday and I am not ready at all. I am not even exaggerating.
I realise that while I’ve done loads of research into curation and social change with the interviews, readings and videos, there is a lot less content about research and research methods. In fact, I’m so thin on the ground with that I may fall through the ice come Wednesday!
So commence frantic googling because the only book I have at home about research is Gray & Malins and I suspect I need a more diverse pool of sources. Speaking of diverse pools, I realise that a large chunk of my bibliography is from online sources and a few books. I was having a bit of a hissy fit about this but I think I’m just going to accept this as a limitation of my research.
It is simply not possible for me to get a lot of traditional reading done at this point. For learning (or entertainment), I listen to audiobooks, podcasts, TED talks and YouTube channels. I tend to only read content after very targeted searches. Borrowing from UAL libraries hasn’t worked out too well for me either. I live outside of London and come in mainly for classes because train tickets are pricey! The last library book I borrowed, someone put in a request for it within a week of me getting it and then it was a mad scramble to get it back to the library in time because I was not scheduled to be in London that week. Looking at the wider ‘context’ of my life I have made peace with doing the best I can with what I have to hand. For me, this course is happening on top of a husband, a 6-year old and an 8-year old, a part time job, a one-woman art business with ongoing fine art commissions and projects.
To address this internet-heavy bibliography, I have been seeking out as many varied sources as I can online – videos, journals articles, websites, book excerpts, blogs, corporate website, educational websites, articles from non-Western researchers. It’s all online but at least there is a variety in the type and source of the information I’m using. Hopefully this will keep things somewhat balanced in my project.
Fingers crossed!
Stacey
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References
Gray, C. and Malins, J. (2017). Visualizing Research : A Guide to the Research Process in Art and Design. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
