1. RESEARCH QUESTION
2. RATIONALE (Why do you want to research this topic? What impact will this have on your practice?)
3. CONTEXTS (What are the immediate contexts in which your theoretical and practical research will be
situated? Political? Social? Technological? Aesthetic? Cultural?)
4. THEORETICAL APPROACH (Identify no more than two potential theories that will help structure your
research – must be appropriate to the theme/question)
5. METHODS (Secondary: theorisation, semiotic analysis, textual analysis, content analysis, discourse
analysis / Primary: surveys, interviews, focus groups, creative method, observations)
6. PRACTICAL OUTCOME (what do you plan to produce/develop?)
7. RESOURCES (what resources will you need to access?)
8. SUMMER READING LIST (find 5 books that you will endeavour to read in preparation for CoP3 - related to
either 3 or 4 above)
9. TIME MANAGEMENT (Plan of actions from now)
Compile your proposal into a (minimum) 10 slide presentation.
Tips and Advice:
- Choose your research topic VERY carefully. Don't attempt to tackle something that you have no experience or knowledge about- I should base it on something that I am passionate about or something that is personal to me.
- Don't forget about the practical brief!!! don't not aim to finish the essay before I start my practical, this will not work!
- Choose a topic that will help me and my practice. Make the module meaningful in relation to my overall development
- Use theory meaningfully but don't over theorise
- There are no "off the shelf" methods of structuring an essay
Other subject areas that we draw on in design subjects might be:
- Media Studies/audience studies
- Cultural studies
- Pop culture
- Celebrity studies
- Poststructuralism
- Gender studies
- Sociology
- Psychology
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