Research Methods Workshops

Research Methods Workshops

Project Team: Cecilia De Marinis, Dorotea Ottaviani, Alice Buoli
Year: 2016
Places and Institutions: RMIT Europe (SP) - Glasgow School of Art (UK) - Estonian Academy of Arts (EN) - KU Leuven, Ghent (BE)

We differentiate between Methods and Methodology in practice-based research. “Method” is intended as a body of techniques and tools to investigate the practice; “Methodology” refers to the PhD process and to the structure of the doctoral training. It refers to the scaffolding, the framework on which researchers can base their procedures and strategies.

Research Methods are the specific “tools” of the research and the practice and at the same time the subject and the object of study of the PhD: therefore we can recognize a circular process of development from the beginning to the end of the PhD. 

A variety of methods are developed by d within the methodological framework of the PhD model. The workshops look at what mechanisms candidates deploy to refine their research methods inside the common methodological framework provided by the PhD.

The workshops interpret the PhD as “a journey”, which cannot be categorised, but rather oriented into the methodological framework of the PhD providing candidates with an open “tool-box”. 

The research leading to these results has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007- 2013/ under REA grant agreement n° 317325. ADAPT-r ITN Project