scholarly journals Collaborative Training in Research Methodology: a case of Malaysia and Laos

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-84
Author(s):  
Wah Yun Low ◽  
Aliyyah Nuha Faiqah Azman Firdaus ◽  
Azirah Hashim ◽  
Bouasavanh Keovilay ◽  
Vong Deuan Osay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
English Language ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
National Development ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Asean Countries

One important aspect of the ASEAN vision is that ASEAN countries strive for equitable economic development and therefore concerted efforts must be made to narrow the development gap between ASEAN countries. This is prioritised in the Initiative for ASEAN Integration which outlines several activities that are designed to assist CLMV countries achieve deeper regional integration while supporting national development priorities and inclusive development. While there has been improvement, there is still significant variance in development achievements. The gaps are wide not only in achievements in income but also in education and health outcomes. This case study provides a description of a Malaysian and Lao collaboration in English language and research methodology training and the challenges faced in doing social science research among Lao academics. The collaboration addresses the developmental divide through knowledge exchange, engagement and collaboration, and capacity building in development between the parties involved.

scholarly journals Post Qualitative Inquiry in an Ontology of Immanence

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. St. Pierre
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
History Of

Because post qualitative inquiry uses an ontology of immanence from poststructuralism as well as transcendental empiricism, it cannot be a social science research methodology with preexisting research methods and research practices a researcher can apply. In fact, it is methodology-free and so refuses the demands of “application.” Recommendations for those interested in post qualitative inquiry include putting methodology aside and, instead, reading widely across philosophy, social theories, and the history of science and social science to find concepts that reorient thinking. Post qualitative inquiry encourages concrete, practical experimentation and the creation of the not yet instead of the repetition of what is.

Social Science Policy in India

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swarup Dutta ◽  
S.V. Narayanan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Science Education ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
National Development ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Funding Policy ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Institutional Infrastructure ◽  
Precarious Situation

This chapter discusses the policy related to social science research (SSR) in India since independence. Several committees have recognized the importance of social sciences and made numerous recommendations regarding the need to encourage and promote SSR as well as its use in public policymaking. The study shows that the policymaking in relation to SSR in India is in a precarious situation. Various education policies insisted more on science education and research and pitched for giving enhanced support for the scientific research in universities for national development, largely bypassing SSR. The study shows that although there is institutional infrastructure, the goal of the SSR in India is ambiguous as there is no clear strategy for the promotion of SSR. Moreover, there is no funding policy and no serious effort to identify the gaps in SSR in India.

Environmental monitoring of riverine plastic contamination in Asia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Olsen ◽  
Rachel Hurley ◽  
Nina Buenaventura ◽  
David Eidsvoll ◽  
Hans Fredrik Braaten ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Large River ◽  
Plastic Waste ◽  
Considerable Proportion ◽  
Monitoring Methods ◽  
River Systems ◽  
Routine Monitoring ◽  
Asean Countries

<p>Rivers have been identified as an important pathway for the release of plastic waste to the oceans, connecting land-based sources to the marine environment. Asian rivers, in particular, have been highlighted by several published studies as contributing a considerable proportion of global macro- and microplastic release. To evaluate this, several parallel projects (ASEANO, SINOPLAST, INOPOL) have commenced environmental monitoring of riverine plastic contamination in China, India, and several ASEAN countries. Monitoring is being undertaken in selected study catchments, which have been identified based on their geographical context and their relevance to global plastic contamination. They include several rivers that have been reported as being amongst the most contaminating systems in the world. Macroplastic flows in the active river channel will be assessed, as well as the role of the riverbank zone in the storage and transport of plastic waste. Monitoring of riverine microplastic contamination will also be included in some countries. The aims of this environmental monitoring is to: i) provide estimates for the flux of plastics to the ocean; ii) identify appropriate and optimum methods for routine monitoring of riverine plastic contamination; iii) supply qualitative and quantitative data on macroplastic flows and contamination to support social science research that is also taking place within these river catchments; and iv) provide data for the calibration and validation of riverine plastic transport models.</p><p>This presentation will give an overview of monitoring plans and preliminary findings and experiences from these ongoing projects. This will include a discussion about the ways in which monitoring methods have been adapted to river systems with different morphologies and flow regimes, and to satisfy different research questions across the projects. The complexities associated with undertaking environmental monitoring in large river systems will also be addressed.</p>

Rebraiding Photovoice: Methodological Métissage at the Cultural Interface

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Standpoint Theory ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Cultural Interface

Photovoice, the most prevalent participatory visual research methodology utilised within social science research, has begun making its way into Indigenous contexts in light of its critical and pedagogical potential. However, this potential is not always actualised as the assumptions that undergird photovoice are often the same ones that (re)produce inequalities. Working from the notion that methodologies are the space in between theory, methods, and ethics, this manuscript works with/in the cultural interface between the Western theories that shape photovoice (i.e., standpoint theory, praxis) and Indigenous analogues (i.e., Nakata's [2007a, 2007b] Indigenous standpoint theory, Grande's [2004, 2008] Red pedagogy) in order to differentially (re)braid photovoice. Following a thumbnail description of these four bodies of scholarship, a concept key to photovoice (i.e., voice) is differentially configured with, in, and for the cultural interface to provide research considerations for various stages of participatory visual research projects (i.e., fieldwork, analysis, dissemination).

Why Post Qualitative Inquiry?

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780042093114
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Language Representation ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology

This article explains that post qualitative inquiry is not a pre-existing humanist social science research methodology with research designs, processes, methods, and practices. It cannot be accommodated by nor is it another version of qualitative research methodology. It refuses method and methodology altogether and begins with poststructuralism, its ontology of immanence, and its description of major philosophical concepts including the nature of being and human being, language, representation, knowledge, truth, rationality, and so on. Its goal is not to find and represent something that exists in the empirical world of human lived experience but to re-orient thought to experiment and create new forms of thought and life.

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