Readings

Please make sure you read these two papers at some point this semester!

Fujii, L. A. (2015). Five stories of accidental ethnography: turning unplanned moments in the field into data. Qualitative Research, 15(4), 525-539. doi:10.1177/1468794114548945

MacIntosh, R., Bartunek, J. M., Bhatt, M., & MacLean, D. (2016). I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: When Research Questions Ought to Change. Research in Organizational Change and Development (pp. 47-82).

You should also look at the methods cards – these are brand new resources developed specifically for this subject. We will be using them in the Block classes. They give an introduction to key approaches, details of specific designs, and examples of research.

The DR Lab Readings pdf contains many references organised according to different methodologies and design approaches.

The Designing Research Lab involves a high degree of independent study. There are required pre-block preparation activities for of the four blocks, but these are not focused on methods texts.

Through the subject you will be developing a proposal for research on a topic and design of your choosing. It is up to you to decide which areas to focus your reading on, and to choose the most relevant readings. The list may help you get started, but is not exhaustive and you will need to do your own searches, follow up on interesting leads, and use what you have already been reading.

Given that all students will be reading different material, there is no subject Reader, and not all of the references below have direct links
for download through the UTS library DRR. UTS library subscribes to most journals, and many books are available electronically too. If you can’t access a journal article, it often works to email the author to ask for a copy.

Important: some of the items in the Reading List are books. you are not required to read the whole book, as a rule of thumb read the introduction and follow up with the chapters that are relevant or of interest to you.

You will find additional resource in the Place-based Methodologies @UTS website. This website, as the name makes clear, is dedicated to methodologies and methods used to research place. However, they are drawn from ethnographic, historical and visual methodologies and are easily adaptable to topics other than place. In particular the podcast series will give you an introduction to the ways in which UTS and other institutions’ researchers think and design their research. Check also the resources page.

We suggest you follow a few blogs (and relative Twitter accounts) that offer a wealth of practical advice and support on research:

Patter, https://patthomson.net/ @ThomsonPat
The Thesis Whisperer https://thesiswhisperer.com/ @thesiswhisperer
Writing for Research, http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/writingforresearch/about/ @Write4Research