Monday, December 05, 2005

In need of focus

This might be a bit off topic - but I have some concerns that arose today:

As someone who is relativly new to this academic gig I am just getting used to the way things are done. The type of research I'm involved in seems, often, like reportage.... let me explain.... a colleague and I were talking about this today. I identified a feeling I've had while involved in this work with the creative industries it often goes something like this:

'I used to be someone who created stuff and now I am someone who reports on other people creating stuff'

A part from seeming somewhat depressing, I wanted to get to something else, I mean research in other fields is often about innovation, discovering things and creating things. So my question to myself is:

'how am I innovating? what am I creating?'

1 comment:

Charlotte Carey said...

Actually you might be interested in some narrative methodologies I've been working with, the whole thing of having people see their situation or an event that has happened as a story and tell it as a story is really interesting. I have some colleagues who also do a lot of work with pictures, drawings etc. so there is definitely scope for developing creative ways of eliciting data.