scholarly journals Editorial: Geoscience communication – planning to make it publishable

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-506
Author(s):  
John K. Hillier ◽  
Katharine E. Welsh ◽  
Mathew Stiller-Reeve ◽  
Rebecca K. Priestley ◽  
Heidi A. Roop ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
First Aid ◽  
Contextual Knowledge ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Brief Advice ◽  
Communication Planning

Abstract. If you are a geoscientist doing work to achieve impact outside academia or engaging different audiences with the geosciences, are you planning to make this publishable? If so, then plan. Such investigations into how people (academics, practitioners, other publics) respond to geoscience can use pragmatic, simple research methodologies accessible to the non-specialist or be more complex. To employ a medical analogy, first aid is useful and the best option in some scenarios, but calling a medic (i.e. a collaborator with experience of geoscience communication or relevant research methods) provides the contextual knowledge to identify a condition and opens up a diverse, more powerful range of treatment options. Here, we expand upon the brief advice in the first editorial of Geoscience Communication (Illingworth et al., 2018), illustrating what constitutes robust and publishable work in this context, elucidating its key elements. Our aim is to help geoscience communicators plan a route to publication and to illustrate how good engagement work that is already being done might be developed into publishable research.

scholarly journals Editorial: Geoscience communication – Planning to make it publishable 

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John K. Hillier ◽  
Katharine E. Welsh ◽  
Mathew Stiller-Reeve ◽  
Rebecca K. Priestley ◽  
Heidi A. Roop ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
First Aid ◽  
Contextual Knowledge ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Brief Advice ◽  
Communication Planning

Abstract. If you are a geoscientist doing work to achieve impact outside academia or engaging different audiences with the geosciences, are you planning to make this publishable? If so, then plan. Such investigations into how people (academics, practitioners, other publics) behave can use pragmatic, simple research methodologies accessible to the non-specialist, or be more complex. To employ a medical analogy, first aid is useful and the best option in some scenarios but calling a medic (i.e. a collaborator with experience of geoscience communication or relevant research methods) provides the contextual knowledge to identify a condition and opens up a diverse, more powerful range of treatment options. Here, we expand upon the brief advice in the first editorial of Geoscience Communication (Illingworth et al., 2018), illustrating what constitutes robust and publishable work in this context, elucidating its key elements. Our aim is to help geoscience communicators plan a route to publication, and to illustrate how good engagement work that is already being done might be developed into publishable research.

Dance Movement Therapy in Healthcare

2017 ◽  
pp. 738-756
Author(s):  
Iris Bräuninger ◽  
Gonzalo Bacigalupe
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Options ◽  
Movement Therapy ◽  
Dance Movement Therapy ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Dance Movement ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
Current State ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Treatment Documentation ◽  
Viable Treatment

Is dance movement therapy (DMT) a viable treatment modality in health care? It is well established as a form of complementary medicine. More recently, oncology, neurology, and geriatrics—especially dementia treatment— have adopted DMT, and this chapter reviews these applications in preventive, curative, rehabilitative, and promotional healthcare. The current state of relevant research is summarized, and practical vignettes illustrate treatment options in various healthcare settings with a wide range of populations. Opportunities for assessment, treatment documentation, and evaluation are highlighted. The chapter’s summary addresses DMT’s contribution to healthcare in promoting wellbeing.

scholarly journals Separating the Impacts of Climate Change and Human Activities on Runoff: A Review of Method and Application

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 2201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Zeng ◽  
Ming-Guo Ma ◽  
Dong-Rui Di ◽  
Wei-Yu Shi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Impact Of Climate Change ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Separating the impact of climate change and human activities on runoff is an important topic in hydrology, and a large number of methods and theories have been widely used. In this paper, we review the current papers on separating the impacts of climate and human activities on runoff, summarize the progress of relevant research methods and applications in recent years, and discuss future research needs and directions.

Multi-species ethnography: methodological training in the field in South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-363
Author(s):  
Harry Wels
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
And Training

PurposeTo further develop research methodologies for multi-species ethnographic fieldwork, based on researcher's experiences with multi-species fieldwork in private wildlife conservancies in South Africa and inspired by San tracking techniques.Design/methodology/approachReflections on methodological lessons learnt during multi-species ethnographic fieldwork in South Africa. The approach is rather “Maanenesque” in telling various types of tales of the field. These tales also implicitly show how all-encompassing ethnographic fieldwork and its accompanying reflexivity are; there is never time for leisure in ethnographic fieldwork.FindingsThat developing fieldwork methodologies in multi-species ethnographic research confronts researchers with the explicit need for and training in multi-sensory methods and interpretations, inspired by “the art of tracking” of the San.Originality/valueComes up with a concrete suggestion for a sequence of research methods for multi-species ethnography based on the trials and tribulations of a multi-species ethnographer's experiences in South Africa and inspired by San tracking techniques.

scholarly journals Experiments in becoming: corporeality, attunement and doing research

2020 ◽  
pp. 147447402094955
Author(s):  
Alan Latham ◽  
Lauren B Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Research Site

Human geography has become deeply interested in a range of research methods that focus on researchers’ corporeal engagement with their research sites. This interest has opened up an exciting set of research horizons, energising the discipline in a whole range of ways. Welcoming this engagement, this paper presents a series of meditations on the process of using the researcher’s corporeal learning as a research tool. Exploring two research projects, as well as the work of the photographer Nikki S Lee, it examines how the process of becoming corporeally capable might productively be framed as sets of ongoing experiments. Framing such engagements as experiments is a useful heuristic through which to think rigorously about what such research can claim as knowledge. More controversially, the paper argues that the heuristic of the experiment helps us to attend to the varying durations of becoming in ways that much existing work has discounted. Developing corporeal capacities – gaining a skill, becoming capable of doing a particular activity – involves becoming attuned to a range of thresholds, the crossing of which open up novel and frequently unexpected perspectives. Attunement to these thresholds does not arise simply through the process of mixing in and participating in a research site. It requires careful attention to the parameters of transformation involved in being able to participate. The paper explores how such parameters might be decided upon and calibrated as part of an ongoing engagement with a research site or event. Our aim is not to artificially restrict or constrain how human geographers approach their research design. Rather it is to encourage human geographers to show more courage in their use of corporeal based research methodologies.

Aboriginal Research: Berry Picking and Hunting in the 21st Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy Absolon ◽  
Cam Willett
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Conducting Research

In this article issues around research methodology specific to Aboriginal people will be discussed. A brief historical analysis lays a foundation for the need for unique research methodologies as it pertains to Aboriginal people both as researched and researcher. Contemporary critiques by Aboriginal writers and communities will be presented in relation to the limitations and effects of Euro-western research methods. Finally, the authors will discuss issues, possibilities and responsibilities around conducting research as Aboriginal researchers.

scholarly journals Exploring a threshold concept framework to fan studies research methodologies

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mandy Rhae Olejnik ◽  
Danielle Hart
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Shared Values ◽  
Fan Studies ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Threshold Concept ◽  
Concept Theory ◽  
Concept Framework ◽  
Shared Understandings

We turn to threshold concept theory to imagine ways scholars can approach fan studies methodologies and make their research and underlying values more explicit, as well as outline what some common and shared values and foundational concepts are in the discipline. We consider notions that all fans understand and value, regardless of home discipline, and the ways such shared understandings can lead to shared and consistent research methods and methodologies. We also provide some examples and illustrations from our own experiences before concluding with a threshold concept–inspired framework for conceiving of fan studies methodologies.

scholarly journals A Comparative Discussion of the Notion of 'Validity' in Qualitative and Quantitative Research

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glyn Winter
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Similarities And Differences

The issues surrounding the use and nature of the term 'validity' in qualitative research are controversial and many. In this paper, the author attempts to establish that 'validity' is not a single, fixed or universal concept, but rather a contingent construct, inescapably grounded in the processes and intentions of particular research methodologies and projects. The first section of this work deals with the problems faced in defining 'validity' in both quantitative and qualitative research methods and will briefly review other authors' attempts to categorise it. The work will then proceed to distinguish and compare the claims to 'validity' made by quantitative and qualitative researchers, highlighting similarities and differences as they emerge. Finally, an attempt will be made to establish that an understanding of nature of 'truth' is central to any theorisation of 'validity.' It will become clear that it is the affiliations of methodologies, concerning truth, that generate varying notions of 'validity.'

scholarly journals #ChildMaltreatment and Technology

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-51
Author(s):  
Scottye J. Cash
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Research Skills

Technology may seem like a friend one day, a foe another depending on how and why it is being used. In today’s world, we are inundated with social media, smart phones, tvs, and cars. Our ability to harness technology to make our lives a better place is a noble goal, however our ability to harness technology to enhance our research skills is absolutely necessary. The current paper explores the ways in which technology has been used and can be used to better understand child maltreatment and domestic violence. Overall, the message is clear, integrating technology-based research methods and practical approaches to helping vulnerable populations is one of this generations’ paradigm shifts. Technology coupled with sound research methodologies can help move us forward in our exploration and understanding of social problems and interventions.

scholarly journals Research Paradigms and Meaning Making: A Primer

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Krauss
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Qualitative Data Analysis ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Research Paradigms ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research

An introduction and explanation of the epistemological differences of quantitative and qualitative research paradigms is first provided, followed by an overview of the realist philosophical paradigm, which attempts to accommodate the two. From this foundational discussion, the paper then introduces the concept of meaning ma king in research methods and looks at how meaning is generated from qualitative data analysis specifically. Finally, some examples from the literature of how meaning can be constructed and organized using a qualitative data analysis approach are provided. The paper aims to provide an introduction to research methodologies, coupled with a discussion on how meaning making actually occurs through qualitative data analysis.

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