This document provides an overview of the CTEC810 TransD Research Methods course at AUT for semester 1 of 2020. It includes the course goals, structure, schedule, assessment tasks and expectations. The course aims to develop students' research literacy and appreciation of different approaches to knowledge. It will cover various research methodologies and require students to plan and present their own research project. Key dates include the start of classes on February 24th and exam weeks in early June. Students will need to demonstrate the capacity to evaluate and apply different research approaches in their assessments.
All 275 slides for the course "TransDisciplinary Research Methods" taught in 2020 at Auckland University of Technology. Course design by Ricardo Sosa sosa.ricardo@gmail.com
There are some motivational elements for publishing. These elements are important for young researchers and faculty members. We should also keep in mind the quality indices such as h-index or impact factor associated with publications.
Find out how to translate a written document into an oral presentation and uncover creative ideas to maximize your communication of findings using NVivo in the defense of your dissertation.
In this session, PhD students will investigate the significance of developing a research agenda and its role in professional development. Participants will explore how to craft and refine their own research agendas. Participants are invited to bring their research agendas (or statements of research interests) to share/critique.
All 275 slides for the course "TransDisciplinary Research Methods" taught in 2020 at Auckland University of Technology. Course design by Ricardo Sosa sosa.ricardo@gmail.com
There are some motivational elements for publishing. These elements are important for young researchers and faculty members. We should also keep in mind the quality indices such as h-index or impact factor associated with publications.
Find out how to translate a written document into an oral presentation and uncover creative ideas to maximize your communication of findings using NVivo in the defense of your dissertation.
In this session, PhD students will investigate the significance of developing a research agenda and its role in professional development. Participants will explore how to craft and refine their own research agendas. Participants are invited to bring their research agendas (or statements of research interests) to share/critique.
It has become imperative to conduct funded research in today's highly resource constrained landscape of higher education. We must understand the attributes of research the mindset of researcher and the requirements of funded research.
Getting Started and Finishing your Dissertation Using NVivoQSR International
In Part 1 of this 4-Part series we will look at the way NVivo has been discussed in other dissertations, usually in methods and findings, provide tips from committee members and NVivo consultants about communicating findings; and give you a sense of the end-game so you can start putting the pieces together!
A workshop for academic librarians on using qualitative methods for user assessment and research in the library. Part 3 focuses on coding qualitative text in light of your research questions or goals, as well as highlights one option for qualitative research software.
Research Methods in Library and Information Science: Trends and Tips for Rese...Lynn Connaway
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni. 2017. "Research Methods in Library and Information Science: Trends and Tips for Researchers, Students, & Professionals." Presented at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, March 31, 2017.
Calling all graduate students and postdoctoral fellows: do you want to be a university faculty member? This presentation offers advice on how to secure an academic job, and even advice on whether this is right for you. The picture of the black book half way through? That's the book you bring with you to the interview with questions for each meeting, research and teaching plans, and other notes to get you through the interview process confidently.
The presentation was given in fall 2014 at the University of Waterloo, organized and hosted by Co-operative Education & Career Action (CECA).
Not sure how to navigate your dissertation journey. See how NVivo can help explore diverse approaches to a literature review; as well as share tips for connecting the literature review to the ongoing data collection and analysis.
Find strategies for your dissertation when it comes to handling data that honor principles such as informed consent and the protection of identities. And see examples of the way NVivo can be discussed in an IRB approval.
Doctoral Symposium Slides from ACM International Conference on Interactive Su...Stacey Scott
The ISS Doctoral Symposium, held with the ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS) 2016, is a forum in which PhD students can meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced Interactive Surface researchers in an informal and interactive setting.
To participate, students submit a paper that describes the problem that their thesis aims to address, their research methodology, the work they have completed thus far, and the plan for the full dissertation work. Doctoral Symposium papers are published in the ISS conference companion distributed at the conference and archived in the ACM Digital Library.
Accepted students present their work to a panel of senior researchers in the ISS field, and participate in an intensive workshop around ISS research and profession career development. They also obtain free conference registration.
Teaching research methods in LIS programs: Approaches, formats, and innovativ...Lynn Connaway
Connaway, L. S., Dickey, T., Hartel, J., Kendall, L., Rebmann, K., Rang, T., & Yontz, E. (2018). Teaching research methods in LIS programs: Approaches, formats, and innovative strategies. Presented at ALISE 2018 Conference, February 9, 2018, Denver, Colorado.
It has become imperative to conduct funded research in today's highly resource constrained landscape of higher education. We must understand the attributes of research the mindset of researcher and the requirements of funded research.
Getting Started and Finishing your Dissertation Using NVivoQSR International
In Part 1 of this 4-Part series we will look at the way NVivo has been discussed in other dissertations, usually in methods and findings, provide tips from committee members and NVivo consultants about communicating findings; and give you a sense of the end-game so you can start putting the pieces together!
A workshop for academic librarians on using qualitative methods for user assessment and research in the library. Part 3 focuses on coding qualitative text in light of your research questions or goals, as well as highlights one option for qualitative research software.
Research Methods in Library and Information Science: Trends and Tips for Rese...Lynn Connaway
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni. 2017. "Research Methods in Library and Information Science: Trends and Tips for Researchers, Students, & Professionals." Presented at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, March 31, 2017.
Calling all graduate students and postdoctoral fellows: do you want to be a university faculty member? This presentation offers advice on how to secure an academic job, and even advice on whether this is right for you. The picture of the black book half way through? That's the book you bring with you to the interview with questions for each meeting, research and teaching plans, and other notes to get you through the interview process confidently.
The presentation was given in fall 2014 at the University of Waterloo, organized and hosted by Co-operative Education & Career Action (CECA).
Not sure how to navigate your dissertation journey. See how NVivo can help explore diverse approaches to a literature review; as well as share tips for connecting the literature review to the ongoing data collection and analysis.
Find strategies for your dissertation when it comes to handling data that honor principles such as informed consent and the protection of identities. And see examples of the way NVivo can be discussed in an IRB approval.
Doctoral Symposium Slides from ACM International Conference on Interactive Su...Stacey Scott
The ISS Doctoral Symposium, held with the ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS) 2016, is a forum in which PhD students can meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced Interactive Surface researchers in an informal and interactive setting.
To participate, students submit a paper that describes the problem that their thesis aims to address, their research methodology, the work they have completed thus far, and the plan for the full dissertation work. Doctoral Symposium papers are published in the ISS conference companion distributed at the conference and archived in the ACM Digital Library.
Accepted students present their work to a panel of senior researchers in the ISS field, and participate in an intensive workshop around ISS research and profession career development. They also obtain free conference registration.
Teaching research methods in LIS programs: Approaches, formats, and innovativ...Lynn Connaway
Connaway, L. S., Dickey, T., Hartel, J., Kendall, L., Rebmann, K., Rang, T., & Yontz, E. (2018). Teaching research methods in LIS programs: Approaches, formats, and innovative strategies. Presented at ALISE 2018 Conference, February 9, 2018, Denver, Colorado.
There are both challenges and opportunities in the existing scenario characterized by heavy emphasis on collaboration, digitization and onset of social media. One needs to be connected with theme, institution, industry and society. The web 2.0 technologies make it possible for a researcher to be a connected one.
OBJECTIVES:
To understand the importance of publication and its challenges.
To increase the visibility and accessibility of published papers.
To increase the chance of getting publications cited.
To disseminate the publication by using “Research Tools” effectively.
To increase the chance of research collaboration.
Delivered at Librarians as Researcher event at York St John University 25th January 2013, hosted by Academic and Research Libraries Group Yorkshire & humberside division.
Presentation by Antonio Teixeira, Universidade Aberta, EDEN Senior Fellow, Albert Sangra, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, EDEN Senior Fellow, Margarita Tereseviciene, Vytautas Magnus University, Deborah Arnold, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, EDEN Senior Fellow and Nilza Costa, University of Aveiro at the 2018 European Distance Learning Week's fifth day webinar on "How EDEN Network can Support PhD Students and Research? " - 9 November 2018
Recording of the discussion is available: https://eden-online.adobeconnect.com/p71or8njhqk4/
Lectures from NTNU courses IT3010 and TDT30. See http://www.idi.ntnu.no/emner/it3010/ for more information. This lecture gives practical information about the course for the students.
This presentation looks at some of the issues of supervising research students at a distance and the tools that can be used to support students' research and writing process.
Computers and Learning Research Group: Research methods in open education: I...Robert Farrow
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To contextualise this approach, an accessible and brief description of the types of methods typically used in research into education and educational technology will be provided. Some of the contrasting philosophical, epistemological and ontological commitments of different research paradigms will be used to differentiate alternative methodologies. Theoretical perspectives will be outlined but not fully explored.
State-of-the-art approaches will be explored and their relevance for open education explained. The presentation will use examples of current doctoral research to highlight the use of different methods, and will convey insights into using different methods as shared by the researchers. This includes reflections on using different methods, and advice for conducting similar work.
Finally, the presentation will offer up for discussion a provisional model of open scholarship including open practices (agile project management; directly influencing practice; radical transparency; sharing research instruments; social media presence; networks); open science (open access; open data; open licensing); digital innovation (HCI; data science; open source technologies); and normative elements (challenging dominant narratives; promoting social justice; and reducing barriers to educational access).
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3. Welcome to #CTEC810
This paper expands and develops your views about ways
of conducting research
Goal: to grow your literacy and respect for other
approaches to knowledge
5. Success in #CTEC810:
Capacity to plan a research project being aware of the
methodological decisions and implications
6. 2020 Semester 1
24 February First day of classes
10 April - 14 April Easter break
15 - 24 April Mid-semester break
2 - 19 June Exam weeks
19 June Last day of semester
CTEC810 2020
26 Feb
w1: Definitions of research: types, levels, goals.
Research, search, practice. Research design.
Pathways. Research outputs.
04 Mar
w2: Types of Research Questions. Working title.
Mapping the research landscape. Abstracts.
Justification and positioning.
Formative assessment due: PGR1 Working title and
abstract
11 Mar
w3: Feedback on working titles and abstracts.
Literature reviews, precedents, grounding. Expected
contribution.
DCT Faculty Colloquium One: Sustainability & Ethics
Friday March 13th 4 to 6 pm: WE230
18 Mar
w4: Surveys, questionnaires, and interviews.
Assumptions, uses, results, contributions, criteria of
quality.
25 Mar
w5: Experiments and user testing. Computational
simulations. Assumptions, uses, results,
contributions, criteria of quality.
01 Apr
w6: Participatory, action research, practice-based,
Research through Design. Assumptions, uses,
results, contributions, criteria of quality.
08 Apr
w7: Ethnography, fieldwork and case studies.
Assumptions, uses, results, contributions, criteria of
quality.
15 Apr
Mid-semester break week 1
22 Apr
Mid-semester break week 2
29 Apr
w8: Philosophy. Creative, queer, indigenous,
feminist methods. Assumptions, uses, results,
contributions, criteria of quality.
DCT Faculty Colloquium Two: Feedback & self-
reflection. Friday May 1st 4 to 6 pm: WE230
06 May
w9: After Method. Design/Plan of the Study
workshop
13 May
w10: Student presentations to supervising staff
20 May
w11: Ethics, resources and time planning. Citation
and references.
27 May
w12: PGR1 writing workshop.
Summative assessment due: Final PGR1 as sent to
supervisors
03 Jun
AUT Exam week 1
10 Jun
AUT Exam week 2
Deadline to submit signed PGR1 to programme
leader
7. Code of Conduct and Expectations
• Respect
• Student agency: participation
• Openness
• Be brave!
• Enjoy and have fun
• Engagement
• Feedback/forward
8. The “R word” at AUT
• Doctor of Philosophy: Undertake advanced research,
develop their careers, make significant contributions
to society. Obtain advanced specialist/discipline
knowledge that makes an original contribution to a
particular field of enquiry; A mastery of body of
knowledge in the field of study; An advanced
capacity for critical appraisal of relevant scholarly
literature / knowledge; An advanced ability to
initiate, design, conduct and report research;
personal, professional, intellectual integrity, respect
and understanding of the ethical dimensions of
research…
https://autuni.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/sdwstg/research/prores/EURx-IDfvPpKjubUKqcJewABKAu7THik4-8Q4eT8CjJR-g?e=Ywya92
9. The “R word” at AUT
• Master’s: Show evidence of advanced knowledge
about a specialist field of enquiry or professional
practice; Demonstrate mastery of sophisticated
theoretical subject matter; Evaluate critically the
findings and discussions in the literature;
Research, analyse and argue from evidence;
Work independently and apply knowledge to
new situations; Engage in rigorous intellectual
analysis, criticism and problem-solving.
Demonstrate a high order of skill in the planning,
execution and completion of a piece of original
research; Apply research skills to new situations.
https://autuni.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/sdwstg/research/prores/EURx-IDfvPpKjubUKqcJewABKAu7THik4-8Q4eT8CjJR-g?e=Ywya92
10. What the “R word” means to you…
• Study, reading, critical thinking + stress
• Thinking from a new perspective
• Establishing new facts, new conclusions
• Systematically
• To explore a theme to influence or guide my practice
• Learn what is to think what could be
• Searching for new knowledge in/outside of us
• Immerse yourself into knowledge
• Find answers*
• Being open to being wrong
• A genuine curiosity
• An itch you need to scratch
• Purpose: to improve
• Challenging yourself
14. Research and Search
• To search:
• to inquire, investigate, examine, or seek; conduct an examination or investigation.
• Check, comb, examine, explore, go through, hunt, inspect, investigate, look, probe
• To research:
• to make an extensive investigation into
• Analyse, consult, explore, investigate, probe, scrutinise, experiment, inquire
• Primary, secondary research
• Research purposes:
• Exploratory, descriptive, explanatory, action research
16. Ontology
What is the nature of reality?
Epistemology
What can we know about reality?
Methodology
How can we go about building that knowledge?
Methods
What actions can we implement to build that knowledge?
Findings
What can we grasp, collect, analyse, evaluate, apply?
17.
18.
19. A Dog Has Died
by Pablo Neruda
My dog has died.
I buried him in the garden
next to a rusted old machine.
Some day I'll join him right there,
but now he's gone with his shaggy coat,
his bad manners and his cold nose,
and I, the materialist, who never believed
in any promised heaven in the sky
for any human being,
I believe in a heaven I'll never enter.
20. Clinging to the pleasures of human–animal companionship, Victorian
animal lovers may have perversely complicated the deaths of pets
and lost sight of other animals as they strove to account for that
most complex of simple things—loving and feeling loved.
21.
22. Research Design
• Methodology, method
• Methodology: the philosophical bases of the study
• Method: a plan of the strategies used to pursue the
research question. Describes tools, instruments,
apparatus, procedures, steps
• Research design: choice of methodology which shapes
the research questions and type of research inquiry
• Questions:
• What is yet to be known? (a gap in knowledge)
• How are questions asked? (problematisation)
• Who will benefit from my research? (ethics)
• How can we study this? (methodologies)
• What motivates this? (justification)
Salkind, N. J. (2010). Encyclopedia of research design (Vols. 1-0).
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412961288
27. Qualities and Criteria for Evaluating
Digital Design Literacy in Education (CC),
(4+4/5+3), 2020-9
This project develops a qualitative understanding of the state-of-the-actual in
terms of students’ use, experiences and understandings of everyday digital
technologies and their ability to deploy more advanced technologies as a
means to proactively engage in the design of digital artefacts.
The project will produce a taxonomy for students’ digital design literacy both
in relation to understanding existing digital technologies and engaging in the
design of future digital technologies, and deliver a conceptual model for
educators to evaluate students’ digital literacy as part of curriculum-based
education.
The ideal candidate has a background in digital design, child-computer
interaction, participatory design, design research in the area of emerging
technologies, with the ability to conduct empirical and intervention-based
research.
Research questions:
• Which competencies supports children’s ’digital design literacy’?
• What are the evaluation criteria that applies to digital design literacy with
emerging technologies?
• How is digital design literacy supported in a progressive development
through educational levels?
https://phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/open-and-specific-
calls/phd-call-2020-9/
28. Surveillance and user involvement in the
healthcare sector (4+4/5+3), 2020-8
The purpose of the PhD project is to develop a framework
for creative solutions to the practical challenges and
ethical dilemmas which arise with the introduction of
surveillance technologies to manage the issue of elderly
with dementia walking away from their homes. The project
involves planning, execution and evaluation of a number of
user-involving design processes such as workshops and
tests. The PhD project thus engages with central issues in
the use and development of technologies and workflows
to manage elderly with dementia’s wandering behavior.
Qualified applicants should have competencies in
qualitative methods and knowledge about humanistic
aspects of the use of ICT.
It is also a requirement that the applicant can understand
Danish.
Relevant educational backgrounds include information
studies, digital design, anthropology or similar.
https://phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/open-and-specific-
calls/phd-call-2020-8/
29. PhD scholarship within the project: “PREDICTING
RESPONSE - AI FOR 3D PRINTING BIOPOLYMERS IN
ARCHITECTURE” at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine
Arts, School of Architecture
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of
Architecture, posts vacant PhD scholarship as of 1
February 2020
Predicting Response is a 4 year project funded under
Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) Thematic
Research on Digital Technologies. The research
project assembles a cross disciplinary team drawn
from architecture and chemical engineering
This project investigates the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for
creating predictive models for unpredictable material practices in
architecture. AI and the use of advanced generative, search and
predictive models are established parts of contemporary
architectural modelling. This project hypothesises that machine
learning can be employed to develop new bio-based graded
material practices for architecture informed by material
performance and integrated with intelligent fabrication. With a
special focus on biopolymer composites, the project examines
how machine learning can be used to predict behaviour and
grade these with versatile non-standard robotic 3D printing.
Designing with biopolymers necessitates solid understanding of
material behaviour both as a finished material and during setting.
These states are radically different; where wet setting states are
highly pliable and thixotropic, dry states are structurally rigid.
Subproject 1 develops models that predict material
transformation during setting and final structural performance.
The project supports UN Sustainable Development Goal 8.4
(Improve global resource efficiency in consumption and
production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from
environmental degradation) by developing new methodologies
for sustainable production.
Center for Information Technology and Architecture
https://kadk.dk/CITA
30. PHD POSITION IN NARRATIVE
COGNITION AND DECISION-MAKING IN
MIXED REALITY SYSTEMS (7-20001)
At the Technical Faculty of IT and Design
- Department of Architecture, Design
and Media Technology, Aalborg
University Copenhagen – a PhD position
is available within the general research
programme Media, Architecture &
Design. The PhD stipend in Narrative
Cognition and Decision-making in Mixed
Reality Systems is open for appointment
for a 3-year period starting from April 1
2020 or soonest thereafter.
The PhD project aims at modelling and predicting human decision-
making by characterizing subconscious brain processes using mixed
reality technologies (MRT) and advance biometric signal processing.
The PhD candidate will investigate key aspects of narrative cognition
that may have an implicit influence in decision-making processes when
story elements are mediated through MRT with the purpose of
advising, prompting or persuading subjects into particular courses of
action, choices and decisions.
In particular, the candidate will investigate decision-making processes
that may be related to cognitive “narrative faculties” such as hindsight,
foresight, closure, emotional immersion and inference making, for
instance. The interdisciplinary methodology will combine tools and
techniques from MRT (VR and/or AR), interactive digital storytelling,
and a suite of integrated psychophysiological methods (EEG, HR, GSR
and eye tracking) in order to study key cognitive processes and affective
states elicited by narrative rhetorical devices in immersive technologies.
The candidate should possess a combination of: Technical/Engineering
skills (mixed reality and immersive technologies, programming, machine
learning or multivariate statistics); Experience, familiarity or strong
interest in cognitive sciences, neurosciences, psychology or affective
sciences; Experience, familiarity or strong interest in narratology or
interactive digital storytelling.
https://www.vacancies.aau.dk/show-
vacancy/?vacancy=1083724
32. AUT Formats (or pathways)
• Format Three
• Practice understood as the site of research,
not to illustrate theory
• Includes an artefact/performance/or other
approved output and exegesis for
examination
• The term ‘thesis’ encompasses the artefact
and the exegesis as a whole
• The exegesis relates directly to the practice-
oriented work and as such does not have a
research topic or question of its own.
• Its purpose is to elucidate and clarify the
relationship between the central concept,
key contexts, focus and methodology of the
practice-oriented work, thereby setting the
thesis in its relevant critical context.
https://autuni.sharepoint.com/sites/sdw/research/prores/Pages/default.aspx
• Format One
• Traditional research structure, wholly written
• Format Two
• Master’s and doctoral students may include
in their submission for examination
manuscripts prepared as they progress
through their degree.
• Requires a comprehensive overall discussion
and conclusion chapters.
• The student required to be the principal
author, with a stated contribution of <80%
• PhD: a minimum of two manuscripts
submitted to a peer reviewed journal
• Masters: a minimum of one manuscript
submitted to a peer reviewed journal
34. Research Outputs
• ≥ 90 pts = thesis
• 60 pts = dissertation
• Artefact, performance or other approved
output
• Exegesis
• Option 1: exegesis is completed prior to
examining the practice
• Option 2: a reflection and final refining of
the exegesis follows the examined exhibition
or performance
• Peer-reviewed:
• Journal papers
• Book chapters
• Conference papers
36. Keywords
• Break up your topic into main concepts
• Define keywords for each concept
• Include synonyms using a thesaurus
• Test your keywords by searching databases
• Try adding method keywords and reference keywords
• Identify a small set of sources that you find more relevant
• Refine and include keywords from those sources
• Keep a record of your best keyword(s) and combinations
• Learn the advanced search operators
• Consider related papers
• Create alerts
• Find your way: journals, conferences, key authors, special
issues and reviews, edited books…
Example:
Empathy, Design, Creativity
↓
Empathy, Designers, Creativity
↓
Empathy, Designers, Creativity, Users
↓
Empathy, Designers, Creativity, Users, Ethnicity
↓
Empathy, Designers, Curriculum
↓
Empathy, Designers, Curriculum, Games
37. Weekly homework
• Define your keywords and test them searching a catalogue
like Google Scholar or a database in AUT Library
• Select five (5) papers that tackle a theme/problem/project
of your interest. From different sources & authors
• Analyse and comment on:
• The titles & keywords of these papers
• Their research purpose (why did they do that work?)
• Their research questions or themes (what did they do?)
• Their contributions (what did they find?)
• How are these 5 papers similar/different?
Title Purpose RQs
Ref01
Ref02
Ref03
Ref04
Ref05
38. Instructor
Dr Ricardo Sosa
• https://www.aut.ac.nz/profiles?id=rsosa
• ricardo.sosa@aut.ac.nz
• Twitter: @designcomputing
Recent publications:
• Accretion theory of ideation. Design Science, doi:10.1017/dsj.2019.22
• Creativity in graduate business education. Innovations in Education and
Teaching, doi:10.1080/14703297.2019.1628799
• Innovation Teams and Organizational Creativity: Reasoning with
Computational Simulations. She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and
Innovation, doi:10.1016/j.sheji.2018.03.004
• Metrics to select design tasks in experimental creativity research. Part C:
Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, doi:10.1177/0954406218778305
• The A-Z of Creative Technologies. Transactions on Creative Technologies,
doi:10.4108/eai.10-4-2018.154460