46. Action Research Cycle Design and Schedule

“the student participants are intended to be the main beneficiaries, whilst their professional practices, communities and wider society are the secondary beneficiaries” – UAL Code of Practice on Educational Ethics.

Time Plan

Monday 4th Nov – Friday 8th November

  • Finalising of interview questions and focus group questions
  • Planning and contacting interviewees and focus group participants
  • Reading around confirmed subjects and methodologies
  • Creation of initial design proposals for interventions: workshops, suppliers map, planning tools, visual poster displays

Monday 11th – Friday 15th November

  • Interview with staff member (tbc costume technician – could be scheduled later on in research depending on availability and used in a reflective capacity)
  • Focus group with performance students (tbc three performance students)

Monday 18th – Friday 22nd November

  • Reflection on interviews and focus groups, initial data analysis and synthesis

Monday 25th – Friday 28th November

  • Adaptation of resources and micro interventions for use in practice
  • Writing of questionnaire and or/other data collection for workshops and resources distributed

Monday 2nd – Friday 6th December

  • Tbc Distribution of resources micro interventions (and data collection)
  • Tbc Clothes swap/ mending workshop (and data collection)
  • Tbc Observation of resources in the space (and data collection)

Monday 9th – Friday 13th December

  • Tbc Clothes swap/ mending workshop and questionnaire about both the workshop and the resources
  • Interview with staff member (tbc costume technician)

Monday 16th – Friday 20th December

  • Synthesis of data overall, evaluation, interpretation, and reflections

(Above: Image of mind map created before and after tutorial with Catherine)

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