Action Plan

In the space below, write a summary of your research project. Remember your ‘elevator pitch’ in Briefing 1, and include a summary of what your research project is investigating, the activities your research will involve and why you have chosen this area to research The questions below will help you evaluate your two objectives against the ‘SMART’ criteria, to make sure that they are specific, measurable, advantageous, realistic and time-limited.

Summary

I am investigating the difference between what is eaten and grown in a speciafic area of Coventry (CV1). I intend to use a mixture of qualitative and quantitative methodology: to produce collaboratively written recipe poems out of an in-depth interviews, to do so in a way which is demographically accurate: with a sample frame, for representativeness.

As part of your research experience, you are required to set two clear and achievable goals that will motivate you to develop your research skills and knowledge Identifying these objectives will help you to make the most out of your experience and will enable you to measure your development as a researcher. These goals could include learning how to access archives, attending a conference, working in a research team or attending a training workshop, but be creative and think about what is relevant for your project.

Development goal 1

1.1 What is the challenge or skill that I would like to develop?

I would like to learn how to obtain a representative sample.

1.2 What am I going to do to achieve this?

I am going to network with Sociology staff and students, to research experts working outside of academia, to identify relevant literature in the library, and to ask questions of census staff.

1.3 Why have I chosen this particular objective?

I am intrigued by the question the idea of representability in poetry.

1.4 How do you know this is achievable within the timeframe and with the resources available?

I will be able to comment on the issue of representabilty and document my efforts to achieve it - whether or not I did.

1.5 When will I achieve this by?

By the end of the first four weeks of my project I'll have my frame (or will have given up on one). Within six weeks, I would like to have gathered my poems, to enable time for their analysis.

1.6 How am I going to know that I have been successful?

I will know why I am asking the my interviewees to be interviewed

Development goal 2

2.1 What is the challenge or skill that I would like to develop?

I would like to compare qualitative and quantitative research data

2.2 What am I going to do to achieve this?

I am going to acquire information on what is grown in CV1 allotments through a spread sheet, to use qualitative methods to write recipe poems

2.3 Why have I chosen this particular objective?

I would like to promote the place of poetry in a research university

2.4 How do you know this is achievable within the timeframe and with the resources available?

I will limit my data to a small geographical area, including in terms of population

2.5 When will I achieve this by?

The end of my project (the middle of August)

2.6 How am I going to know that I have been successful?

I will have a coherent written anaysis of what happened