Other views of research

Lately we have been looking around at how different groups view and experience research.  An interesting take can been seen in an overview of a project by celebyouth.org, based in the School of Sport & Education at Brunel University and a collaboration with Manchester Metropolitan University. The group's aim was to look at the significance celebrities have in the construction of young people's aspirations. They have used their experiences to help inform others researching similar areas when it comes to the methods employed and this looks very useful to a number of our research areas, including Children, Young People and Education.  This includes negotiating access to schools for a research project, dilemmas encountered with youth-centred research, and ethical issues surrounding archiving data once collected.

Have a look at their recommendations if you think this may help inform your research methods.

New Arts and Humanities Databases

Anyone doing research in the Arts and Humanities will be pleased to know that we have purchased access to ProQuest's Art, Design and Architecture database collection. ProQuest describes the collection as:

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"A comprehensive survey of current publications in the fields of visual and applied arts. This collection includes the specialist indexes ARTbibliographies Modern (covering modern and contemporary art), Design and Applied Arts Index (for all aspects of design and crafts) and the International Bibliography of Art (covering scholarship on Western art history), together with a complementary collection of current full-text journals, Arts and Humanities Full Text."