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Course: Research Methods for Art & Design

FDY-115
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\ RESEARCH DESIGN
INTRODUCTION
(Topic/Background/Objective)

METHODOLOGY
What is your overall Methodology? Qualitative/Quantitative, Worldview, Case study, Ethnographic,
phenomenology, Practice Led, Interpretive, mixed methods?

SAMPLE OF THE STUDY

Could be the following:
- Site of Research
- Events or activities that could be observed
- People who could be interviewed
- Documents that could be read

The Sample of the study is…

The Criterion for selecting the sample is….

APPROACH/CRITICAL FRAMEWORK
(Feminist theory etc)

METHODS FOR DATA COLLECTION

Secondary Sources
(Explain how you will be collecting your secondary sources)
 Primary Sources
In which of the following ways will you collect your data? Tick the relevant boxes and fill in the sections
applicable.

Observations

Interviews

Documents

OBSERVATIONS
Of whom or what? Why is this form of data collection appropriate? Will you be a participant or an
outside observer? Will you do it overtly or covertly? Why? How many times, how often, for how long,
over what period will you do this? How will you record your observations (field notes, mapping,
videotaping, audio taping etc)? Why?
INTERVIEWS
With whom? Why is this form of data collection appropriate? How many times, how often, for
how long, over what period will you do this? How will you record your interviews (notes,
videotaping, audio taping)? Why?

*Note: In findings, do keep a record of name, time, date and venue of interview
DOCUMENTS
Of what type (archives, articles, books, reports, curricula, images, student work...)? Why is this
form of data collection appropriate? Why are these specific documents relevant? Where and how
will you get them?
ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
LIMITATIONS
 Research Plan

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