This was the second meeting of my project and I feel that now it has come to light my clear goals for the next few weeks. In this meeting we discussed a few key things that I have done over the past week. I had been struggling to visualise workload, so this meeting was of great benefit. 

We had a constructive discussion about my discourse analysis scheme which I created as well as how to improve it, including differences to my table structure and the discourses I have outlined, but also how I could use the work of other authors in order to identify a potential new discourse within my work, and then code for that. While I was assuming the new discourse would come from the text itself, after a conversation with Dan, we decided to look for alternative views in the work of others. 

We also discussed my plan for how I want to structure my report and decided that while it may make more basic sentence to go chronologically, a thematic approach would allow for more comparison and analysis. Therefore, while my first draft may be organised chronologically, I would aim for the final one to be structured thematically. 

At the end of the meeting, we had several actions to be done this week to ensure that I have a good start to week 4. 

FOLLOW UP ACTIONS:

• Make the changes needed to my discourse analysis scheme- big and small changes! 
• Start reading secondary literature to identify an additional discourse. Start with three texts only this week. This includes reading up on Purple and Blue Labour, as well as work by Judy Atkins, Burman and the others Dan emailed to me. 
• Finish practicing discourse analysis.
• Source my literature for analysis- spend one day on Ed Miliband, one day on Jeremy Corbyn and a day on Keir Starmer.