Content
1. Your research area
1. Your research area
‐ why your issue is current and important.
‐ Your hypothesis – see above
‐ show evidence of your knowledge of this topic by quoting from
newspaper articles, TV programmes, library books, websites
(secondary research).
‐ How did you refine your research area?
‐ Justification for the kinds of questions you asked your network.
Were they neutral, were they qualitative or quantitative?
2. Networks
‐ What is a network?
‐ What does your network look like? Centralised, decentralised,
distributed? Use Martin Raymond chapter on networks to help.
‐ How and why should we use networks for research?
‐ How did you use your network for this particular research?
‐ What are/were your network’s limits?
‐ How diverse is your network?
‐ Weak and strong ties.
‐ Connectors.
3. Your results
‐ Weak and strong ties.
‐ Connectors.
3. Your results
‐ what does your research tell us that’s new?
‐ Was it predictable or were there any surprises?
‐ Show your audience in graphs and tables what your network
thinks.
‐ Did you get any interesting comments – what were they?
‐ Is it the same as the current thinking in the media or books or
have you identified a new trend?
‐ What is the ‘zeitgeist’?
4. Reflection
‐ What worked and what didn’t work.
‐ Was your network adequate to answer your questions?
‐ Were your questions successful in gaining the information you
needed?
‐ Were your results skewed by your network?
‐ What would you do differently next time?
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