IRP Session 01 2023 2024 v01

Independent
Research
Project
Contexts
Thursday 9th May
Overview
● Research Recap
● Contexts - an explanation
● Activity 1 - Finding your own contexts
● Activity 2 - Writing for your context
● Sharing
Overview of IRP Thursdays
9/5/2024 16/5/2024 23/5/2024

CONTEXTS QUESTIONS METHODS
Researching Context Setting Questions Choosing Appropriate

and Subquestions Methods
Adapting for Context

Writing for Different
Research Plans
Audiences
Overview of IRP Thursdays
30/5/2024 6/6/2024
RESEARCH RESEARCH
SURGERY 1 SURGERY 2
Facilitating peer Developing research

support further
Assessment recap
Term 3 Key Dates
● Essay & Project Documentation : 12/7/2024
● Public Event : 18/7/2024 - 21/7/2024
● Symposium (Assessment) : 24/7/2024 - 26/7/2024

Month Week Activity Writing Making Testing
31 Personal Tutorials (Individual)
33 Independent Research
May 34 Personal Tutorials (Individual)
June 38 Independent Research
40 Independent Research + Submission
41 Public Event
Research Recap
Why research is important
● Research lets you prove your work is significant
○ You know it’s unique because you’ve researched existing work
○ You know it’s important because you’ve researched real world issues and debates
○ You know it’s effective because you’ve researched it’s impact with audiences
● Research lets you expand the scope of your work

○ Connect your work with a broader range of issues and topics
○ Engage with a wider variety of audiences and collaborators
○ Discover different contexts for your work
● Research is a useful professional skill

○ Supports interdisciplinarity
○ Is used in many IED graduate careers
Why rigour is important.
● Ethics - It’s essential to make sure your research does no harm to
yourself or others.
● Transparency - Being clear about your methodology allows others
to know how you got your results, and in what contexts they are
valid.
● Reproducibility - A clear and effective methodology allows others
to test your results, or apply them to their own work.
● Trust - All of this allows other people to trust your research. If you
can’t prove your research is trustworthy, you will not be able to use
it.
IRP Learning Objectives
A. Intellectual Engagement
A2 Adapt and combine appropriate concepts and vocabularies from appropriate

intellectual frameworks to frame your conceptual approach, and engage actively
in critical discourse.
C. Professional Development
C1 Develop an individual practice-based and research-led approach that relates to

the context within which you wish to practice.
C3 Compose presentations of your work for others, ensuring they make the subject
engaging and legible to your audience.
Contexts for Research
Academic Research: Conferences
TRU Libraries
Papers Workshops Posters

Academic Research: Journals
Academic Artistic Journals

Publishers
Academic Research: PhD
BBC
Conference Case Study: Workshops
Commercial Research
Anna Dziubinska Amelie Mourichon
R&D Market Research UX Research

Commercial Research and Practice: Case Study
Artistic Research
- Developing an understanding of key subject areas
- Co-creating with participants or collaborators
- Translating and mapping information into legible creative
experiences
Artistic Research: Case Study
UVA (Istanbul, 2022) Phases

Sound Design: Dave Meckin
Design Research
Gina Baum Shontelle Xintong Cai
Materials Systems Processes

Design Research: Case Study
Further Example Contexts for Research
● Festivals
● Magazines
● Funders
● Blogs
● Websites More examples here
● Awards
● Podcasts
● Television
● Charities / NFP
● Investors
Questions?
Activity 1: Finding Your Context - 45 mins
This first task is about finding the existing references and contexts
which support your work.
1. Identify 3 references which are important for your project.

Try to choose different types of reference (e.g. a book, an artwork,
an article, a performance, an interview etc.)
2. Analyse the context for these references. Where did you find
them? Who published them? How are they archived or distributed?
3. Add these to your Padlet and share with your group. Go
round your group so everyone has a chance to discuss their
references.
Activity 2: Writing for Context - 45 mins
In this task you will start aligning your project with a specific context.
1. Choose one destination context from the examples you
found in Activity 1. E.g. a particular journal, conference, festival,
magazine, etc. Select one that is most relevant to your work.
2. Look at more examples from this context and analyse the
style of writing. How is work introduced in this context? What kind
of information is important?
3. Draft a 200 word description of your project using this style.
4. Upload to Padlet!

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Independent

9/5/2024 16/5/2024 23/5/2024

Researching Context Setting Questions Choosing Appropriate

Adapting for Context

Facilitating peer Developing research

● Essay & Project Documentation : 12/7/2024

● Public Event : 18/7/2024 - 21/7/2024

● Symposium (Assessment) : 24/7/2024 - 26/7/2024

31 Personal Tutorials (Individual)

32 Personal Tutorials (Individual)

May 34 Personal Tutorials (Individual)

37 Personal Tutorials (Individual)

June 38 Independent Research

40 Independent Research + Submission

● Research lets you expand the scope of your work

● Research is a useful professional skill

A2 Adapt and combine appropriate concepts and vocabularies from appropriate

C1 Develop an individual practice-based and research-led approach that relates to

Papers Workshops Posters

Academic Artistic Journals

Anna Dziubinska Amelie Mourichon

R&D Market Research UX Research

- Developing an understanding of key subject areas

- Co-creating with participants or collaborators

- Translating and mapping information into legible creative

UVA (Istanbul, 2022) Phases

Materials Systems Processes

1. Identify 3 references which are important for your project.

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