Block 4 – Designing in Quality

Friday 30th August 9am – 5pm

We will cover:

  • What counts as good research?
  • Looking for signs of high quality in your own research design
  • Creative representations of research
  • Individual student presentations.

Here are details of the pre-class work you need to complete before Block 4.

What counts as good research?

1. Download Shenton 2004 and have it available as you watch this video about the paper. The video summarises a number of key points. As you watch it note ACID: something you Agree with, something that is Confusing, something you find Interesting, and something you Disagree with. Share your ACID points in the B4 Shenton ACID Test Topic [in Teams].

2. Read this #openaccess paper by Chenail. In the B4 Plumb Topic [in Teams], tell us what elements you will need to keep plumb in your own research.

Looking for quality in your own design

3. Make sure you have a soft copy and hard (printed) copy of your draft proposal with you at Block 4 (it doesn’t matter how draft-y it is!).

Student presentations

4. Prepare to give a brief overview of your study design to the rest of the class. All students will do this in the Block. The maximum time allowed is 3 minutes per presentation and this will be strictly enforced! You can have 1 slide, but no animations. You are welcome to use prompt cards or a script if that is helpful.

Creative representations of research

No pre-class preparation for this one – we will be creative in the moment!

What counts as good research?

Shenton paper | Chenail paper

ARC proposal | ARC assessing criteria | ARC rubric

Multicultural Health proposal | Multicultural Health criteria

Inner West Council: IWC-community-history-and-heritage-grants-guidelines-2018,  IWC-grant-proposals and IWCstronger-communities-grant-app

NSW Environment  Guidelines  and EoI

Two failures and a success – the painful birth of Nick’s Creating Better Futures project. You can see the finished website for practitioners here.

Yay! You’ve made it through all the Blocks!

If you have any feedback from the in-class presentations you can provide to other students in the class, please do so using the Block 4 Conversation Topic.

Now your focus should be on Assessment 2.

Use the Subject HelpDesk if you have questions relating to the Assessment.