Wednesday, 4 November 2015

Context of Practice 1 - Lecture 4 - What is Research?


  • Process = more important than outcome.
  • 'Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought' - Albert Szent-Gyorgy.

Approaches to Ideas
  • Stimulated approach - inspiration from surroundings, media, libraries etc. Development of analogies.
  • Systematic approach - constantly changing possibilities - systematically working through an approach.
  • Intuitive approach - development of thought process - many occur spontaneously.

Research - process of finding facts - facts lead to knowledge. Finding out answers to questions such as 'why' 'how' and 'what if?'
  • Primary research - developed + collected for a specific end use. Collection of that does not yet exist.
  • Secondary research - data that has already been collected.
  • Quantitative research - facts, figures - measurable data - objective.
  • Qualitative research - peoples behaviour, beliefs, attitudes - non-numerical data.

Information = adding knowledge to the person receiving it. Should be sufficient, competent, relevant and useful. 

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