Individual reflective journalling - Week 1
I have found the first week at the Laidlaw Research summer to be profoundly invigorating and I am enthusiastic about the coming weeks for how the project should pan out!
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Hana,
It sounds as though our meeting Ashad and seeing the proposed spaces helped make both the barriers and the potential of the project much more tangible. The large number of people he has had sign up is interesting and offers encouraging evidence of potential demand, but it also raises an important research question: what is required to convert initial interest into attendance and then sustained participation?
As you investigate this, consider what those registrations tell you — and what they cannot yet tell you. How were they collected, who is represented, and what might prevent interested residents from participating regularly - these might be questions you could put to Ashad? The distinction between expressed interest, access and long-term engagement could become an important contribution to your report.
Your commitment to considering intersectional experiences is also valuable. Try to make this concrete in the next stage of the research. Rather than treating women, disabled people, ethnic communities or low-income families as separate categories, how might factors such as gender, income, transport, caring responsibilities and cultural expectations combine to shape an individual’s opportunities?
In your next reflection, I would be interested to hear more about one of the barriers that surprised you and how it has changed a specific part of your research design.
Thank you very much for the feedback! I will ensure that I keep this in mind for next week!