Category Archives: Action Research Project
References
Bell, J. (2010). Doing Your Research Project: A Guide for First-time Researchers in Education, Health and Social Science. 5th ed. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Open University Press, p. 30. Available at: https://www-vlebooks-com.arts.idm.oclc.org/Product/Index/155387?page=0&startBookmarkId=-1 (Accessed: 16 November 2025). Bilgin (2021) Why positionalities matter: reflections … Continue reading
Protected: Project Findings
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Participant-facing documents
Critical Friends – Have you got feedback for me? When developing my student invite draft, I sought feedback from my course leader, Ella Sharp-Mitchell, and my colleagues Mikha Mekler and Sean-Henry Fitzsimons. As a team, we are mindful of each … Continue reading
Ethics
My project evolved and significantly improved by writing the Ethical Action Plan (ARP), receiving feedback and writing it again with it and the peer group’s (Tutorial 2) considerations in mind. Conclusion It helped to shape my project, reconsider effectiveness of … Continue reading
Research question
What are meaningful connections betweenMA Innovative Fashion Production (MA IFP) students and students from other MA courses within the School of Design and Technology, and do they increase the students’ feeling of belonging to the UAL community? I settled on … Continue reading
Research Methods
Action research methodology Qualitative and iterative, reflexive Reading notes: Action Research by Costello (2003), from left to right p.3, p.4, p.6 with my annotations (2025) Data collection tool: Survey – Focus group interview The focus group interview is my intervention. … Continue reading
Action Plan
This section was used to stay on track during the project. Especially as all listed aspects of the project have gone through iterations as the project progressed. This is captured by V1 for Version 1 and so forth.
Rationale
This action research project wants to find out what the needs of MA Innovative Fashion Production (MA IFP) students are to make meaningful connections to other MA students. The results should inform the development of an intervention, such as a … Continue reading
