Good academic writing depends on being clear about your method. This workshop offers a focused, practice-based space to think carefully about how research questions in food studies are framed and how methods are chosen in response.
This is a process course—one geared toward teaching you how to do good research in food studies. This process has two parts, each with many smaller objective questions that we will try to answer:
1.Formal methodology—what is research, what are some various ways to do research and what are the philosophical bases behind these methods? Which techniques prove most fruitful in studying food? How do we use them? What are their variations?
2. Developing your own research interests—how can understanding the methodology and food research scene help you to find your own research niche in food studies? What interests you and why? How do you propose to study it? What is its potential significance and what are its foreseeable obstacles? How can you hone a general interest into a researchable area?