{"id":167,"date":"2015-06-30T15:33:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T15:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walesdtc.ac.uk\/onlinematerials\/?p=167"},"modified":"2021-09-21T11:15:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T11:15:52","slug":"how-to-get-clear-about-method-methodology-epistemology-and-ontology-once-and-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walesdtp-legacy.cardiff.ac.uk\/onlinematerials\/how-to-get-clear-about-method-methodology-epistemology-and-ontology-once-and-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get clear about method, methodology, epistemology and ontology, once and for all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video recording from a workshop by Professor David James\u00a0at the ESRC First Year Student Conference in Cardiff, January 2015.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Watching this video will take just under forty minutes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By definition, doctoral research is of high quality in the conventional senses of having a robust design, appropriate techniques of data-gathering and analysis, being original, having high ethical standards, having clear links with previous research and so on.\u00a0 In the social sciences, good doctoral research is often reflexive as well: this may take the form of a straightforward assessment of strengths and weaknesses, or it may mean a stronger kind of reflexivity (such as that advocated by Bourdieu and some feminist scholars).<\/p>\n<p>In this workshop, Professor James asks us to\u00a0consider a further sense in which doctoral research on any topic can be reflexive and \u2018critically self-aware\u2019,\u00a0\u00a0starting\u00a0with the question \u2018what\u2019s the link between the concrete details of my method and more abstract matters, such as values and world-views?\u2019 \u00a0He looks\u00a0at the <em>necessary <\/em>inter-relationship of four elements, namely method, methodology, epistemology and ontology, and some\u00a0<em>practical <\/em><em>implications <\/em>of this for the integrity and coherence of doctoral research.\u00a0 The workshop is NOT designed for people doing philosophy doctorates.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b83ZfBoQ_Kw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The slides for Professor James&#8217;s\u00a0talk, along with an archive of social media discussion, can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walesdtc.ac.uk\/conference\/programme\/how-to-get-clear-about-method-methodology-epistemology-and-ontology-once-and-for-all\/\">conference website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video recording from a workshop by Professor David James\u00a0at the ESRC First Year Student Conference in Cardiff, January 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[45,47,46,31,48],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-methods-2","tag-epistemology","tag-methodology","tag-ontology","tag-research-methods","tag-weltanschauung"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walesdtp-legacy.cardiff.ac.uk\/onlinematerials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walesdtp-legacy.cardiff.ac.uk\/onlinematerials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walesdtp-legacy.cardiff.ac.uk\/onlinematerials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walesdtp-legacy.cardiff.ac.uk\/onlinematerials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walesdtp-legacy.cardiff.ac.uk\/onlinematerials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/walesdtp-legacy.cardiff.ac.uk\/onlinematerials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/walesdtp-legacy.cardiff.ac.uk\/onlinematerials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walesdtp-legacy.cardiff.ac.uk\/onlinematerials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walesdtp-legacy.cardiff.ac.uk\/onlinematerials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walesdtp-legacy.cardiff.ac.uk\/onlinematerials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}