OUGD501:Context of Practice 3 Introduction

• 40 credits
• Up to 9000
• Practice based research 
• individually driven
• look at learning outcomes
• critical methodology (how we research/investigate the topic) 
• synthesis, re-thinking practice and theory
• can work with the same title as long as it's original work 
• try to define a subject be as specific as you possibly can

Contextual Studies behind: 
what factors sit behind your chosen subject? 
how have historical, cultural, social, technological economic political and other factors influenced it? 
who are the key figures within my chosen subject? 
what is the specific history of my chosen subject? 
are there any dominant or prevailing attitudes that inform my subject? 
is my subject culturally specific?

Research Methods
how will you approach your chosen subject?
what sort of questions will you ask? why?
what methodology will you use?

methodology needs to be appropriate/unique to question

do you have to research into methods of research...
how do you maximise the effective ness of your research

make the question real word and relevant

the hermeneutic circle developed by heidegger