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My research question
“What practical guidance can be provided to address the needs of recent (0-5 years post university) black UAL graduates, who do not or cannot participate in UAL’s traditional mentoring programmes?” The context of my role is outlined in my first blog post.
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Protected: Project Findings
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Notes on my Mixed Methods Approach to my ARP
Following on from my IP unit, I would like to explore the idea of a mentoring-inspired Action Research Project. The project will likely involve multiple explorations of different methodologies and experiments. When I was initially considering ways to gain the necessary insights to develop a mentoring guide for graduates, I thought a questionnaire would be…
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Participant – facing documents
Below is a questionnaire I constructed and intended to be my primary method of research. However, I showed an iteration of questionnaire to a workshop to be reviewed by my tutorial group and others before sending it to potential participants. The feedback from my colleagues was overwhelmingly that it could come across as auditing the…
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Ethics
First attempt at Ethics Form The feedback on my initial Ethics Form helped me to not just think about the Ethics outlined in the BERA guidelines but also helped me to consider how to expand the parameters of my project and the way in which I could involve colleagues. John’s comments on mindfulness, values and…
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Rationale
My rationale for choosing this topic and research question is simply because I identified a need for such a resource but did not have the capacity to address it until now. As a Graduate Employability Specialist, I frequently work with graduates who are unable to join traditional mentoring programmes due to a variety of factors.…
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References
Adams, T., 2021. Tony Adams: “The Art of Autoethnography”. YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-CyUBLhk6Q [Accessed 15 December 2024] Banks, S., 2016. Everyday ethics in professional life: social work as ethics work. Ethics and Social Welfare, 10(1), pp.35-52. DOI: 10.1080/17496535.2015.1126623. Bhagat, D. & O’Neill, P. (eds.), 2011. Inclusive Practices, Inclusive Pedagogies: Learning from Widening Participation Research in…
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Intervention
I work in the Careers and Employability department as a Graduate Employability Support Specialist. My role means that I interact and support students in their final term and recent graduates up until five years after leaving UAL. The students and graduates are from any college, school and discipline. This means that I am often expected…
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Race blog
The resources provided all showcased differing approaches to addressing racism, ranging from studies, reports, and experiments that touch on topics such as Critical Race Theory, Institutional Racism, and lived experiences. Although all of them were interesting to me, the two that resonated with me most were a clip from The School That Tried to End…