Design Thinking and Designerly Ways of Knowing in Operational Research Practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 131-164
Author(s):  
Christina J Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Operational Research ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Research Practice

In-between practice: working in the ‘thirdspace’ of sensory and multimodal methodology

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Hurdley ◽  
Bella Dicks
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Sensory Ethnography ◽  
New Space

This article discusses how emergent sensory and multimodal methodologies can work in interaction to produce innovative social enquiry. A juxtaposition of two research projects — an ethnography of corridors and a mixed methods study of multimodal authoring and ‘reading’ practices — opened up this encounter. Sensory ethnography within social research methods aims to create empathetic, experiential ways of knowing participants’ and researchers’ worlds. The linguistic field of multimodality offers a rather different framework for research attending to the visual, material and acoustic textures of participants’ interactions. While both these approaches address the multidimensional character of social worlds, the ‘sensory turn’ centres the sensuous, bodied person — participant, researcher and audience/reader — as the ‘place’ for intimate, affective forms of knowing. In contrast, multimodal knowledge production is premised on multiple analytic gaps — between modes and media, participants and materials, recording and representation. Eliciting the tensions between sensorial closeness and modal distances offers a new space for reflexive research practice and multiple ways of knowing social worlds.

Operational research practice as storytelling

2007 ◽  
Vol 58 (12) ◽  
pp. 1535-1542 ◽  
Author(s):  
J H Klein ◽  
N A D Connell ◽  
E Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Operational Research ◽  
Research Practice

Is Reflexivity Enough? Addressing Reflexive Embodiment, Power, and Whiteness in Sport Management Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-43
Author(s):  
Joshua D. Vadeboncoeur ◽  
Trevor Bopp ◽  
John N. Singer
Keyword(s):  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Sport Management ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Psychology Education ◽  
Explicit Consideration ◽  
Good Research Practice ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
Good Research

In this article, the authors drew from the epistemological and methodological considerations of neighboring social science fields (i.e., counseling psychology, education, sociology, and women’s studies), which suggest a reevaluation of reflexive research practice(s). In discussing the implications this reevaluation may have for future sport management research, the authors contend that such dialogue may encourage scholars to understand that, while adopting a reflexive approach is good research practice, it may also mean taking a closer look at how our biases, epistemologies, identities, and values are shaped by whiteness and dominant ways of knowing and, in turn, serve to affect our research practice. Thus, this may allow all researchers, with explicit consideration for those in positions of conceptual, empirical, and methodological, as well as cultural and racial, power, to acknowledge and work toward a more meaningful point of consciousness in conducting sport management research.

scholarly journals Re-imagining the dialogic spaces of talanoa through Samoan onto-epistemology

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 79-88
Author(s):  
Jacoba Matapo ◽  
Dion Enari
Keyword(s):  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Process Ontology ◽  
Philosophical Position ◽  
Institutional Ethics ◽  
Research Protocols ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Research Scholarship ◽  
Relational Space

This article proposes a Samoan indigenous philosophical position to reconceptualise the dialogic spaces of talanoa; particularly how talanoa is applied methodologically to research practice. Talanoa within New Zealand Pacific research scholarship is problematised, raising particular tensions of the universal and humanistic ideologies that are entrenched within institutional ethics and research protocols. The dialogic relational space which is embedded throughout talanoa methodology is called into question, evoking alternative ways of knowing and being within the talanoa research assemblage[1] (including the material-world). Samoan epistemology reveals that nature is constituted within personhood (Vaai & Nabobo-Baba, 2017) and that nature is co-agentic with human in an ecology of knowing. We call for a shift in thinking material-ethics that opens talanoa to a materialist process ontology, where knowledge generation emerges through human and non-human encounters.     [1] The concept of assemblage developed by Deleuze and Guattari (1987) refers to a process of temporary arrangements or constellations of objects, expressions, bodies, qualities and territories that create new ways of functioning. The assemblage is a multiplicity shaped by a wide range of flows and emerges from the arranging process of heterogenous elements (Livesey, 2010).

scholarly journals Learning ethics from an echidna: Embedding Indigenous knowledges at the core of ethical research practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 205979912097692
Author(s):  
Michelle Dickson
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Indigenous Knowledges ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Written Form ◽  
Cultural Interface ◽  
Ways Of Being

I am an Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander2 (Koori3) researcher and am privileged to work at the Cultural Interface with Koori ontologies, epistemologies and axiologies within a Western academic paradigm. I deeply engage with my Koori ways of seeing and ways of knowing the world and those things sustain me as I navigate working in the Cultural Interface. However, I feel my Koori ontologies, epistemologies and axiologies are not often valued or understood as ways of being, knowing and doing within a Western academic space. This is particularly the case when I share a Yarn4 that I learned somewhere in my lifespan and apply it to teaching or research within a Western context. However, many of those Yarns are the foundation of my learning and knowledge, have inspired me and inform and guide my research. This article describes how Yarns learned through my own life have informed my development as a researcher and have guided the ethics, methodology and methods in my research. Throughout the article I will share several Yarns (in a written form) that I used as part of my doctoral research methodology, as I Yarned with Team Members,5 about navigating research ethics, about establishing my own research methodology and about how I ensure respectful research practice founded on Indigenous knowledges.

scholarly journals Directions for research practice in decolonising methodologies: Contending with paradox

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 205979912110062
Author(s):  
Tamara A Lipscombe ◽  
Antonia Hendrick ◽  
Peta L Dzidic ◽  
Darren C Garvey ◽  
Brian Bishop
Keyword(s):  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Cultural Assumptions ◽  
Incremental Approach ◽  
Research Praxis

The complex nature of colonisation presents with the potential for paradoxes in decolonising approaches, hence, fixed conventions and methods are discouraged. In this way, decolonising methodologies concerns interrogating dominant conventions in research that have typically excluded alternative ways of knowing from academia. This raises concern about the issue of breaking conventions, when it is potentially difficult to realise that one is depending upon them. An incremental approach to the research process and subsequent knowledge generated provides opportunity to challenge the conventions that typically dictate research praxis. In addition, fostering epistemological transformation and pluralism presents a solution to problems derived from dominant cultural assumptions and practices. My aim for this article is to extend upon the literature pertaining to decolonising methodologies, with this contribution of focusing on the research process as a means to avoid paradox in the decolonial intention. Accordingly, a process imperative that focuses on how researchers do research, over the tendency to focus on outcomes, emerges as a strategy to identify and contend with paradoxes within decolonial work. A questioning convention is posited as a means for mining the assumptions and biases of the dominant culture that would otherwise ensnare ones thinking. Consequently, research may be better liberated from oppressive colonising practices that are tacit within research and academic conventions. Narratives are provided throughout for illustrative example, and to better explore the concepts named.

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