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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Reflexive research"”.
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The construction of shame in feminist reflexive practice and its manifestations in a research relationship
… spaces, it has historically been under-researched and under-theorised. However, a burgeoning of literature in recent years has brought an increasing awareness of shame as a pathogenic force. An investigation of this noxious affect is especially pertinent in the context of qualitative …
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“NYAM CHIEM” RECONSTRUCTING AND PERFORMING NIGHTMARE: A DANCE RESEARCH IN PERFORMANCE OF SLEEP PARALYSIS.
… dance work of the creative process, research and performance presentation of the piece “Nyam chiem.” This thesis examines the phenomenon of sleep paralysis through a personal reflexive research. The work challenges the notion that sleep paralysis is evil, revealing the phenomenon as a …
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Process is just as critical as results: using community-based participatory research to unite environmental justice and sustainability
… do this, I drew on community-based participatory research methods to elicit stakeholder perspectives on a local waterway remediation project in Milwaukee, WI. The objectives of my thesis were twofold: 1) conduct interviews to understand stakeholders’ definitions of injustice, as well as views on …
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To a Better Understanding of Professional Practice: Provider Decision-Making When Delivering HIV Services
<p>Over the last several decades an abundance of research has been conducted on HIV/AIDS. These studies have focused on the infection, impact of the disease on the health and quality of life of people living with the infection, and on treatment effectiveness. However, limited studies are available …
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Gender, sexuality, and the body: Exploring the lived experiences of gay and queer marathoners
… conversations, written personal stories, and my reflexive research journal, subjects' narratives were analyzed thematically and then submitted to a discourse analysis. While revealing the subjects' recitation of dominant discourses regarding gay sexuality, the analysis also suggested marathoning …
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The 'wicked' problem of employability development in HE degree programmes: Experiences, Understandings and Peceptions of Lecturers and Students
… and social reasons. Though many policies, research and practices have tried to address the issues and challenges employability development in HE faces, to date it remains a ‘wicked’ problem for higher education.Through a close up research framework, this study explored and examined the …
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The Influence of Immigration Status on the General Health Outcomes of Adult BAME Migrants in East London
… and environmental factors. The background of the research, justification, and goals are established in Chapter 1, emphasising the critical need for a sophisticated comprehension of migrant health disparities in extremely diverse urban environments. In Chapter 2, the literature is reviewed, and a …
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Transnational identity, historical entanglements and the living archive: between Medu & me
… be opened is an audio-visual exhibition and self-reflexive research project that unpacks transnational identity, historical entanglements, and the living archive, through Medu Art Ensemble as the case in point. The project expands on the relationship ‘between Medu and Me', as a method of engaging …
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"What if this really happened?" Using critical literacy practices and dystopian fiction to mediate self-efficacy with at-risk readers
… removal from their home campus. This action research study was conducted in order to determine what happens to these students’ self-efficacy for reading and their identity as readers when critical literacy practices were used in combination with dystopian fiction. Two published tools were …
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Cultural Transposition: Exploring Meanings of and Strategies for Cross-Cultural Transfer of Organizational Practices
<p>The research objective is to study the phenomenon of transferring organizational practices which are conceptualized in one culture to another different culture. The purpose of the study is (1) to understand how cultural values and beliefs are manifested in behavior; (2) to explore how the …
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A transdisciplinary exploration of interpretability and trust of advanced software with the Australian Proptech community of practice
This research explores the notion of interpretability and trust of advanced software in the context of the Australian Proptech community of practice. It does so through a transdisciplinary qualitative and reflexive research methodology that embeds findings with a creative artefact: an ethnographic …
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The social construction of the New Zealand WWOOFing experience: A study of the world wide opportunities on organic farms programme
… investigates an increasingly popular but little researched tourism- related phenomenon: the World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) programme (Deville, Wearing, & McDonald, 2016a). The programme has been framed as an alternative form of tourism (McIntosh, 2009; McIntosh & Campbell, …
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Mapping multilingual ecology: Exploring sociocultural aspects of learners’ investment in EFL in Pakistan
… of Pakistan in the so-called "War on Terror". Research and policy documents often link better English education in the country with promoting tolerant views about the western developed countries. Students from upper social classes often have access to quality instruction in private schools as …
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Prototyping the Exhibition: a practice-led investigation into the framing and communication of design as a process of innovation
A challenge ignited the research outlined in this thesis. Design is increasingly being framed (across academia and industry) as an integral method and strategy for social, cultural and economic innovation. How is this value to be communicated within the museum context, which is more commonly rooted …
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Exploring ethnography and digital visualisation: a study of musical practice through the contextualisation of music related projects from the Seán Ó Riada Collection
… of digital visualisation and ethnographic research. The investigation utilises a two-pronged approach to examine music related projects from an archive, the Seán Ó Riada Collection, and focuses on how mid-twentieth century Irish artist Seán Ó Riada rose to prominence. Humanities scholars …