The Practicalities of doing Practice Based Research



Thursday 4th April 2019, we had a Skype call on the practicalities of doing practice-based research. All this planning now needs to become reality. Many great ideas are penned down on paper but in reality, it falls flat because they haven't been properly tested or even practically thought through. Now Daddy Leavins passed on some pretty sound advice to me which I have lived by my whole life, this is:


 "Good fortune comes to the well prepared" 

I tell this to the kids I teach and believe this motto is true of whatever venture you are following. Sport, teaching, academic research, etc. If you are well prepared, you will be successful.


Adesola spoke to us on having clear guidelines of what is going to happen and how it is going to happen so that when I come to Module 3, I am fully prepared. In Module 3, I will need to reflect upon the following:


What you planned to do? Vs What actually happened?

The gap between is not knowing. The most important data is finding your failings. The unknown. You do not know the best way to get the information what you need, and that is because you do not yet know what you will find out. 

We need to open that doorway into our research. How are you physically going to analyse your data? Will you sit in a room? Talk to people? Sketching out notes? Refer to key phrases or quotes. Practicalities include preparing equipment, ensuring it is charged and works and so on. Pre-plan where you are researching in your literature? In a specialist library? Online? Where are you collecting the data? Is it too noisy? Some important practical elements.

So, what I need to do next? I need to do a pilot interview. I also need to reflect upon how I am actually going to analyse my data. It is great to have all this data but without a detailed and well thought out analysis it is pointless to collect!



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