Observe:
Secondary research:
- Discover what policies and initiatives already exist within UAL relating to this issue (is there a gap in the research).
- Explore and unpack what burnout is.
- Impacts burnout has on students with invisible disabilities
- Look at existing frameworks from different industries/practices that could translate into education?
Primary research:
- Reach out to a Disability Advisor (or similar) for a online interview or email questionnaire.
- Run a group “discussion” with incoming students (IC) to unpack what burnout is, what it looks like and how we can collectively challenge it within the institution and within course.
- Creative Research Methods: MAKE SOME THINGS!
Reflect
Reflect upon the focus group through synthesis and analysis of research, after the focus group I will ask students to use provide feedback or document their experiences (debrief).
Plan
Building upon primary/secondary research, PLAN a second session with the IC that focuses on practical strategies to manage burnout: co-designing a “thing” (not sure what this thing looks like yet as it would be based on the analysis of the previous primary research)
Act
Implement workshop to help build practical/actionable steps on how to mitigate and manage burnout.
On three levels:
- Personal (students)
- Community (course community: their peers and course staff)
- Institutional (UAL)
Which is highlighted in Patricia Hill Collin’s book, Black Feminist Thought when she talks about the matrix of domination:
“People experience and resist oppression on three levels: the level of personal biography; the group or community level of the cultural context created by race, class, and gender; and the systemic level of social institutions. Black feminist thought emphasizes all three levels as sites of domination and as potential sites of resistance.”
(Collins, 2000)
To do:
- Ethics form – DONE
- Literature review – DONE
- Draft interview and focus group questions – DONE
- Run focus group with activities – DONE
- Transcribe and analyse primary research – DONE
- Word cloud for each questions – Done
- Visual anaylsis of participants notes/drawings – DONE
- Data poetry from free writing exerfise – DONE
- Reflect on findings – DONE
- Plan workshop – DONE
- Presentation slides- DONE