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This is the final of three episodes where I speak Dr Kaja Franck (https://twitter.com/kajafranck), Visiting Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Hertfordshire. Throughout the three episodes, we cover a wide range of topics, including the research process, the importance of space, and the supervisory relationship while doing a PhD; how to develop your own methodology; and the importance of conferences and networks in developing your research ideas.

In this third and final episode, we cover:

• The usefulness of conferences
• The role of the researcher in research and vulnerability

Kaja received her PhD studentship through the 'Open Graves, Open Minds' research project (@OGOMProject): https://www.opengravesopenminds.com/ 

Her latest research project is 'Macabre Danse' (@dansegothic) which looks at #BalletGothic. Founded by Dr Karen Graham (@kar_took) and Kate Harvey (@harveygothick).

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This is the second of three episodes where I speak Dr Kaja Franck (https://twitter.com/kajafranck), Visiting Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Hertfordshire. Throughout the three episodes, we cover a wide range of topics, including the research process, the importance of space, and the supervisory relationship while doing a PhD; how to develop your own methodology; and the importance of conferences and networks in developing your research ideas.

In this second episode, we cover:

• Developing a methodology
• Intersectionality of research areas
• Managing the supervisory relationship

Kaja received her PhD studentship through the 'Open Graves, Open Minds' research project (@OGOMProject): https://www.opengravesopenminds.com/ 

Her latest research project is 'Macabre Danse' (@dansegothic) which looks at #BalletGothic. Founded by Dr Karen Graham (@kar_took) and Kate Harvey (@harveygothick).

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This is the first of three episodes where I speak Dr Kaja Franck (https://twitter.com/kajafranck), Visiting Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Hertfordshire. Throughout the three episodes, we cover a wide range of topics, including the research process, the importance of space, and the supervisory relationship while doing a PhD; how to develop your own methodology; and the importance of conferences and networks in developing your research ideas. 

In this first episode, we cover:

• The research process, the importance of space and 'thinking time'
• Fear as part of research, and pushing yourself as a researcher

Kaja received her PhD studentship through the 'Open Graves, Open Minds' research project (@OGOMProject): https://www.opengravesopenminds.com/ 

Her latest research project is 'Macabre Danse' (@dansegothic) which looks at #BalletGothic. Founded by Dr Karen Graham (@kar_took) and Kate Harvey (@harveygothick).

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In this episode, I'm talking with free-range scholar and methodologist, Dr Janet Salmons (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jsalmons/) about using online methods to conduct research. We dig into considerations for how to use online methods, design, creativity, as well as the ethics of using these methods. Janet offers some excellent guidance and questions to think about when designing research - both for online and in-person methods. You can find her book, Doing Qualitative Research Online, from Sage Publishing. 

You can also find Janet's work on https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/author/janet-salmons-0. Use the code MSPACEQ422 for a 20% discount on SAGE research methods books, valid until December 31, 2022.

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In this, the second episode of Season 4, I talk to Sara de Sousa (https://twitter.com/sarag5), Student Success Lead at Hertfordshire Business School, University of Hertfordshire. Her work and research is on understanding and reducing the awarding gap between Black and Global Majority students, and white students, and increase retention and progression across the student demographic. We talk about undertaking using creative methods, decolonising research, and the importance of self-awareness and reflexivity in qualitative research. 

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In this episode, the first of Season 4, we dive into what it means to do a 'Professional Doctorate' with Janine Marriott (https://twitter.com/thejanine). Janine is undertaking her project, entitled ‘Dead Interesting: Public engagement in and with Sites of Cemeteries and Graveyards (UK , Ireland and Europe)' with the University of Hertfordshire. She is also the Public Engagement Manager at Arnos Vale Cemetery Trust, the case study for her doctoral research. 

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In this episode Dr Sebastian Cordoba (https://twitter.com/scordoban), a Lecturer in Psychology for the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at University of Suffolk, explains and explores queer research paradigms, and we discuss what being a queer researcher really means. Sebastian is currently turning his dissertation into a monograph for the Routledge Gender and Sexualities in Psychology series. He is also collaborating on a research project entitled AutOnoME which examines how neurodivergent gender minority youth experience online spaces.

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In this wide-ranging conversation with PhD researcher Victoria Holt (https://twitter.com/victoriabee27), we talk about feminist research, the importance of reflexivity and researching marginalised groups. Victoria is a doctoral researcher at the University of Roehampton (https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/victoria-holt), exploring sex workers’ experiences of domestic and familial abuse. She is an activist with the Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement (SWARM) (https://www.swarmcollective.org/) in the fight for the decriminalisation of sex work, which is core to the work and research she undertakes.

You can find Victoria's blog here: https://forgedintimacies.wordpress.com/

You can find Alison Phipps's blog here: https://phipps.space/

You can also find SWARM on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sexworkhive

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In the second half of a two-part episode 5, I speak to Diana Tremayne (https://twitter.com/dianatremayne) about netnography as an approach, and also the insights and challenges of being part of a community that you are researching.  

Diana is a lecturer at the Carnegie School of Education at Leeds Beckett University, and she has recently completed her doctoral research into online teacher learning communities.

You can find her blog here: https://anotherfeblog.wordpress.com/

Some further resources

Costello, L., McDermott, M.-L. and Wallace, R. (2017) ‘Netnography: Range of Practices, Misperceptions, and Missed Opportunities’, International Journal of Qualitative Methods. doi: 10.1177/1609406917700647.

Williams, M. L., Burnap, P. and Sloan, L. (2017) ‘Towards an Ethical Framework for Publishing Twitter Data in Social Research: Taking into Account Users’ Views, Online Context and Algorithmic Estimation’, Sociology, 51(6), pp. 1149–1168. doi: 10.1177/0038038517708140.

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In the first of a two-part episode 5, I speak to Diana Tremayne (https://twitter.com/dianatremayne) about her research, where we focused on the doing of a PhD. We talk about the process of doing and writing, and discuss some of the challenges that PhD researchers need to overcome to be successful. 

Diana is a lecturer at the Carnegie School of Education at Leeds Beckett University, and she has recently completed her doctoral research into online teacher learning communities.

You can find her blog here: https://anotherfeblog.wordpress.com/

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In this episode, I talk to David Carpenter (https://arma.ac.uk/speaker/david-carpenter/) who works as a trainer for the Health Research Authority, the UK Research Integrity Office (https://ukrio.org/) and the Association of Research Managers and Administrators. We talk about the paradigm of virtue ethics, what it is, and what it means to researchers and participants. David comes to this episode with a wealth of knowledge and experience of what ethics means to research, and how we can embed ethical practices to become better researchers.  

If you are interested in reading further, check out this article:

Morris, M. C. and Morris, J. Z. (2016) ‘The importance of virtue ethics in the IRB’, Research Ethics, 12(4), pp. 201–216. doi: 10.1177/1747016116656023.

And if you missed it, check out the first Do Better Research podcast on Conducting Ethical Research: https://anchor.fm/suzanne-albary/episodes/Do-Better-Research-S1-E2-Conducting-Ethical-Research-ejvceq 

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In this episode Dr Angelika Strohmayer (https://twitter.com/tripsandflips_), a Senior Lecturer in Northumbia University’s School of Design (https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/s/angelika-strohmayer/), explains and explores feminist research paradigms, and we discuss what being a feminist researcher really means. 

Throughout the episode, we talk about a range of resources you can use and read to learn more about feminist research (skip to 23:00 to hear Angelika outline some key readings), including:

Bardzell (2010) 'Feminist HCI: taking stock and outlining an agenda for design'. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1301–1310. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/1753326.1753521

Phippes (2020) Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism. Manchester University Press. (Other work by Dr Alison Phipps: https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p188060-alison-phipps/publications)

Vergès (2019) A Decolonial Feminism. Pluto Press. 

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In this episode, I talk to Dr Sarah Warnes (https://www.mgmt.ucl.ac.uk/people/sarahwarnes), Associate Professor in Education at the UCL School of Management. 

We talk about what methodology actually means, how to understand and write about it, and how to explore your methodology as part of a research project. 

In this episode, we talk about the 'research onion' from Saunders et al (2012) - an open access version can be found here: https://research-methodology.net/research-philosophy/

Warnes, Sarah (2015) Exploring the Lived Dimension of Organisational Space: An Ethnographic Study of an English Cathedral. PhD thesis, University of Essex. Available here: http://repository.essex.ac.uk/15224/ 

In this episode I speak to Dr Javiera Atenas (https://twitter.com/jatenas), Senior Lecturer in Learning and Teaching Enhancement at the University of Suffolk (https://www.uos.ac.uk/people/dr-javiera-atenas). Javiera currently works in developing critical data literacies amongst academics and supporting institutions in developing open education and science policies. We talk about data activism – what it is and the impact it has on research and researchers.  

Javiera has some fantastic resources available on 'Understanding critical data literacy beyond data skills' here: https://zenodo.org/record/5155667#.YSZbR45KiUl

And her latest research can be found: Atenas, Javiera. (2021). The Datafied Present and Future. In Understanding Data: Praxis and politics. UK: HDI - Data, Praxis and Politics. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4698609

You can find out more about Data Activism here: https://data-activism.net/ 

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In this episode, Dr Katherine Allen presents her research: "We need to hold the hope for this: feminist epistemology, patriarchal realise and the uses of utopianism" as part of the knowledge exchange talks organised by the University of Suffolk Gender and Sexuality Research Interest Group (https://www.uos.ac.uk/content/gender-and-sexualities-research-interest-group).   

Find Dr Katherine Allen online (https://www.uos.ac.uk/people/katherine-allen) and on twitter (https://twitter.com/alwaysalreadyun)

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In this episode, I’m talking to Dr Christopher Huggins (https://www.uos.ac.uk/people/dr-christopher-huggins), Associate Dean for Learning, Teaching and Student Experience and Associate Professor in Politics at the University of Suffolk. Chris is a mixed methods researcher whose profile focuses on subnational politics in Europe and the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union. In our interview, we talk about accessible quantitative and secondary research with a focus on his published short article entitled “Did EU regional spending affect the Brexit referendum?” (https://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2018.1544852).

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In this episode, I interview Andreea Tocca (https://www.uos.ac.uk/people/andreea-tocca), Research Development Manager at the University of Suffolk. Andreea is a multidisciplinary Academic with 20 years of experience in higher education and practical practice in the healthcare sector. 

In this episode we talk research funding - how to plan research projects, how to find funding, and how to be successful in funding bid writing. 

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In this episode, I interview Dr Helen Kara (https://helenkara.com/). Helen is an independent researcher and prolific writer, with a background in research methods, health, social care, and the third sector. 

Her two latest books are available from Bristol University Press: Creative Research Methods in Education, co-authored with Narelle Lemon, Dawn Mannay and Megan McPherson (https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-research-methods-in-education), and Creative Writing for Social Research, a practical guide, co-authored with Richard Phillips (https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-writing-for-social-research).

In this episode we talk about how fundamental writing is to our research practice, and how we can consider it part of our methods. Helen offers some fantastic advice for making our writing better, and how to work with feedback from supervisors and reviewers.

We discuss dialects and language in academic writing; you may be interested in Young (2010) 'Should writers used they own English?' Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 12(1) pp. 110-117 (https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1095&context=ijcs) 

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In this episode, I interview Dr Kat Duffy (https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/business/staff/katherineduffy/), Lecturer in Marketing at the Adam Smith Business School, at the University of Glasgow. Kat is a researcher of consumer culture with a particular interest in the digitalisation of consumption. Her work is published in international journals including Consumption, Markets and Culture, Journal of Marketing Management, and Gender, Work and Organisation. She is an interpretivist researcher whose approach is and broadly ethnographic, using methods such as semi-structured interviews, wardrobe audits, videography and netnography.

Show Notes

In this episode, we talk about a range of fantastic resources. Here are a few:

Hall, S.M. & Holmes, H. (2020) Mundane methods: innovative ways to research the everyday, Manchester University Press, Manchester. (https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526139719/) 

Shaw, D. and Duffy, K. (2020) Save Your Wardrobe: Digitalising Sustainable Consumption: Further Insights. Documentation. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.(URL: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/227237/1/227237.pdf) 

Shaw, D. and Duffy, K. (2019) Save Your Wardrobe: Digitalising Sustainable Clothing Consumption. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (URL: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/188107/1/188107.pdf) 

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In this episode, I get the chance to interview Dr Will Thomas (https://willt486.github.io/), Associate Professor of the Suffolk Business School (https://www.uos.ac.uk/content/suffolk-business-school), about  his reflections on contract research through the methodology of autoethnography. We talk about the process of autoethnography, including what it is and how to do it. We also talk about his experience of contract research, and lessons learned. 

You can read Will & Mirjam's research in: Thomas & Southwell (2017) ‘Hate the Results? Blame the Methods: An Autoethnography of Contract Research’ in Vine, Clark, Richards & Weir (eds.) Ethnographic Research and Analysis: Anxiety, Identity and Self, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 233-252.

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In this episode, I speak to Mike Seal, Professor of Education and Social Mobility at the University of Suffolk (https://www.uos.ac.uk/people/professor-mike-seal). Mike talks about a range of research projects that he has engaged in, and focuses on what he calls a 'maverick methodology', Participatory Action Research (PAR). This methodology is the focus of his book Participatory Pedagogic Impact Research: Co-Production with Community Partners in Action, available from Routledge (https://www.routledge.com/Participatory-Pedagogic-Impact-Research-Co-production-with-Community-Partners/Seal/p/book/9780367590000). 

Mike's latest book is: Seal, M. (ed) (2020) Hopeful Pedagogies in Higher Education: Dancing in the Cracks, Bloomsbury Press, London & New York.

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In this episode, I speak to Professor Mark NK Saunders (https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/business/saunders-mark.aspx) from the Birmingham Business School. Mark has published widely on both research methods and Human resource management, and has authored books such as Research Methods for Business Students and Keeping your Doctorate on Track, and has publishes over 100 journal articles and book chapters. In this interview, we talk favourite research projects, how many interviews are enough in qualitative research, and some tips and tricks for getting research back on track when things start to go wrong.  

Selected publications discussed in this episode:

Townsend K and Saunders MNK (2018, editors) How to keep your research project on track: Insights from when things go wrong Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

Saunders M and Lewis P (2018) Doing Research in Business and Management (2nd ed) Harlow: Pearson

Saunders MNK and Townsend K (2016) ‘Reporting and justifying the number of interviews participants in organisation and workplace research’ British Journal of Management 27.4, 836-852

Saunders MNK, Dietz G and Thornhill A (2014) Trust and distrust: polar opposites, or independent but co-existing? Human Relations 67.6 639-665

In this episode, my guests attempt to teach me (a qualitative researcher) about quantitative research. I speak to Dr Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman (http://globalhealth.port.ac.uk/team_member/dr-mohammad-mahbubur-rahman) about his research and finding the story in quantitative data, and Dr Shahidul Islam (https://www.uos.ac.uk/people/dr-shahidul-islam) helps explain some of the key features of quantitative research. 

The Guests...

Dr Mohammad Rahman is a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Health and Care Professions at the University of Portsmouth, and Dr Shahidul Islam Lecturer in Accounting at University of Suffolk Business School. 

Dr Mohammad Rahman's work can be found here: 

Rahman MM. (2014) 'Estimating the Average Treatment Effect of Social Safety Net Programmes in Bangladesh' The Journal of Development Studies 50 (11), pp. 1550-1569 (https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2014.887688) 

Show notes...

In this episode, Dr Shahidul Islam talks about a specific research paper of interest:

Jie Chen, Woon Sau Leung, Marc Goergen (2017) 'The impact of board gender composition on dividend payouts' Journal of Corporate Finance, Volume 43, pp. 86-105 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2017.01.001) 

Shahidul also talks about using Google Finance data, which can be explored here: https://www.google.co.uk/finance

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In this episode, I speak Dr Catherine Price (https://warwick.ac.uk/study/csde/gsp/eportfolio/directory/pg/live/u1455901/) about her research using below-the-line comments in online news articles. We’ll be thinking about using secondary data for research purposes, including what kinds of data can be used, where we can find it, and what issues there might be in evaluating it

The Guest...

Dr Catherine Price's work on foodbank use using secondary data collection methods can be found here:  Price, C., Barons, M., Garthwaite, K. and Jolly, A. (2020) ‘The do-gooders and scroungers’: examining narratives of foodbank use in online local press coverage in the West Midlands, UK, Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, vol xx, no xx, 1–20, DOI: 10.1332/175982720X15905998323834

Further Resources...

This is a great text on using secondary data for research: Smith, E. 2008, Using Secondary Data in Educational and Social Research, McGraw-Hill Education, Berkshire

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In this episode, I speak to two fantastic researchers Dr Jan Wilcox (https://www.uos.ac.uk/people/dr-jan-wilcox) and Dr Suzanne Culshaw (https://www.bera.ac.uk/person/suzanne-culshaw) about their use of visual methods in their PhD research. You'll hear how they employed visual components to their methods to enhance their data collection, providing focal points for participant discussions. They'll also be sharing some tips on how to include visual methods in your own research design. 

The Guests...

Dr Jan Wilcox's PhD thesis can be found here: Wilcox, J. (2019) The Incredibles: Investigating what it is like to be a portfolio worker. PhD thesis, University of Essex. (available here: http://repository.essex.ac.uk/24924/)

And Dr Suzanne Culshaw's paper on her research can be found here: Culshaw, S. (2019) ‘The unspoken power of collage? Using an innovative arts-based research method to explore the experience of struggling as a teacher’. London Review of Education, 17 (3): 268–283. (DOI https://doi.org/10.18546/LRE.17.3.03) 

Further Resources...

If you're interested in further exploring the use of creative methods in research, I absolutely recommend Dr Helen Kara's Creative Research Methods in the Social Sciences: A Practical Guide, a preview for which is available from Google Books (shorturl.at/lyKW0) or the newer second edition is available to pre-order now (https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-research-methods). 

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In this episode, we’re be thinking about how we might use social media to gather research data. We’ll also talk briefly about netnography (https://youtu.be/F8axfYomJn4), and in our interview for this week, with Kerry Jordan-Daus (https://twitter.com/KerryJordanDaus), we’ll hear some of the issues with this particular methodology.

Further resources on using online research methods can be found courtesy of the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (https://scgrg.co.uk/online-research-methods) and the National Centre for Research Methods (https://www.restore.ac.uk/orm/site/home.htm).

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This episode will explore the use of interviews and focus groups as methods for data collection, and some of the nuances and challenges of using online technologies to facilitate them. We’ll be talking to two guests: Dr Sue Hollinrake (https://www.uos.ac.uk/people/dr-susan-hollinrake), Associate Professor in Social Work at the University of Suffolk, and Kat Nudds (https://www.linkedin.com/in/katnudds/), the Career Coach with the mindset of a personal trainer (https://www.thecareerpt.co.uk/) and Talent Development Partner at Derivco Sports.

Dr Sue Hollinrake's research can be found here: Dix, G., Hollinrake, S. and Spencer, S. (2019) Co-producing Community with Disabled Researchers and Citizens: the Challenges and Potential for Successful Collaboration, in Participatory Social Work: Research, Practice, Education, Granosik, M., Gulczynska, A., Krostrzynska, M. and Littlechild, B. (eds), Krakow: Jagiellonian Press.

And here: Hollinrake, S., Spencer, S. and Dix, G. (2019) Disabled citizens as researchers – Challenges and benefits of collaboration for effective action and change. European Journal of Social Work, 22 (5) pp749-762. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2018.1564736

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In this episode, we'll be hearing about the literature review. We'll be thinking about what goes into a good quality literature review, and how to structure our planning for this hugely important section to our research project. We'll be talking to Lizzie Mapplebeck, Director of the Suffolk Alliance Mental Health Transformation Programme and MBA student at the University of Suffolk (https://www.uos.ac.uk/courses/pg/master-business-administration-mba).

Raul Pacheco-Vega, PhD offers some great resources on his blog on the literature review: http://www.raulpacheco.org/resources/literature-reviews/

Pat Thomson also has some great advice on her blog: https://patthomson.net/category/literature-review/page/2/

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In this episode, we will be talking about research ethics. We’ll be speaking Fiona Ellis, co-founder of the Survivors in Transition (https://survivorsintransition.co.uk/), a Suffolk-based charity who support men and women who have experienced sexual abuse in childhood. As you can imagine, Fiona has a range of ethics experience, not only from her role within SITS, but also as a member of the University of Suffolk institutional ethics committee. We also speak to Dr Will Thomas (https://willt486.github.io/), associate professor of the Suffolk Business School, about his research and the importance he places on an embedded approach to ethics.

The Guests...

Dr Will Thomas's latest publication is available now: Thomas W. Hujala A. Laulainen S. And McMurray R. (2018) (eds) The Management of Wicked Problems in Health and Social Care. London: Routledge (https://www.routledge.com/The-Management-of-Wicked-Problems-in-Health-and-Social-Care/Thomas-Hujala-Laulainen-McMurray/p/book/9781138103627) 

His research with the Co-Op is: Hollinrake S. Thomas W. Tocca A. and Cavenagh P. (2016) ‘Food Shopping and Eating Habits in Later Life: Implications for Retailers and Public Health in Contributing to the Well-Being of Older People’ in Baho, S.M. and Katsas G.A. (eds) Making Sense of Food. London: Inter-Disciplinary Press

Show Notes....

Adam D. I. Kramer, Jamie E. Guillory, Jeffrey T. Hancock (2014) 'Emotional contagion through social networks,' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jun 2014, 111 (24) 8788-8790; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1320040111 (https://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full) 

You can find out about the Milgram Experiment here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

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In this, episode one, we’ll be exploring what we mean by research, and why we do it. We’ll be talking to some active researchers – Dr Tom Vine and Dr Fran Hyde of the Suffolk Business School (www.uos.ac.uk/business) - about their research journeys and what they enjoy about engaging with research. We’ll also be thinking about where research projects come from, both from within our workplace and deciding what to study as part of a research project.  

The Guests...

Dr Tom Vine has a new book out! Check it out here: Vine, T. (2021) Bureaucracy, London: Routledge (https://www.routledge.com/Bureaucracy-A-Key-Idea-for-Business-and-Society/Vine/p/book/9781138483316) 

Dr Fran Hyde's latest paper from her PhD research can be found here: Hyde, F. (2020). Harry’s most important work. Marketing Theory. Vol 20(2) pp. 211–218 (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1470593119897777?journalCode=mtqa)

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