1. Why We Contextualise Research
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Engaged Excellence in Research and Teaching Practices
Why We Contextualise Research
Research 1, Session 14, Day Three

2. Learning Outcomes By the end of the session, you will be able to:
Justify your research within a theoretical/epistemological context
Appreciate the need to contextualise your research

3. Contextualising Your Research
Need to place it within a specific world view and epistemology
Need to explain and justify the methodology you proposed to take
Explicitly build on previous research (for example filling a gap)
Be shown to contribute a new research insight
Critically reflect on previous research or add new insights
Contextualising one’s research within the academic context means you:

4. Activity: What Research Paradigms Can You Hear?
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5. Activity
As a group, identify the research paradigms and plot them on the continuum below:
Now place your research your question on the continuum.
(5 mins)
Positivism
Interpretivism

6. The content is authored by:
Professor Mark Hepworth,
Professor in People’s Information Behaviour, Centre for Information Management, Loughborough University
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