Dr Andrea Bundon Design and the Digital World - Session 2 Communicating your research ideas & process

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Design and the Digital World
Communicating your research
ideas & process
14th January 2015
University of Leicester

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• Digital skills training across ; Loughborough University; University of
Leicester; and the University of Nottingham.
• Focus on different stages of the research process
• Aimed at those with basic knowledge
• Organised and delivered by research staff and centred upon principles
of peer to peer learning.
• Opportunity for research staff to network across different disciplines,
schools and institutions

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• What was your motivation for signing up for the
workshop?
• What good & bad examples do you have of
communication within your research?
• Who are the different stakeholders, participants,
team members and other academics you need to
communicate with?

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Getting to know
your research team
Andrea Bundon, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University

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GETTING TO KNOW YOUR RESEARCH TEAM
• HOW will team members work together?
• What are the OBJECTIVES of the research?
• What SKILLS and RESOURCES do we have?
• How do we COMMUNICATE with team members?

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Digital storytelling as a research tool
Andrea Bundon, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University

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WHAT IS DIGITAL STORYTELLNG
• California Center for Digital Storytelling (1990s)
• Mission ‘To promote the value of story as a means for
compassionate community action.’
• Storytelling used by community activists, educators, public health
practitioners, etc.
• Used as reflective practice, pedagogical strategy, vehicle for
education, community mobilization and advocacy

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Digital storytelling is often part of the research
PRODUCT
What if it could be part of the research
PROCESS??

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Who?
Describe yourself
Why?
Discuss your reasons
for participating in this
project
What?
Skills and resources
you can contribute

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ACTIVITY
Create story
‘Me and OUR research project’

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Visual (photo,
illustration, etc.)
Text or audio
Character
(me, my skills &
resources)
Setting
(need – individual
and collective)
Plot
(what happened
to get me
involved)
Conclusion
(vision for project)