Tuesday, 17 February 2009

Reading and Ranting

The presentation is done and despite panicking prior it was helpful to be forced to put my 'kinda, something, sortas' into a slightly more coherent structure. Unfortunately it didn't seem as coherent when vocalised as I thought it did on paper but I'm going somewhere, I think. I was happy with my feedback and it was helpful to see the direction my fellow students are taking also. I have just sat down to fill in my written proposal and am finding it hard to pin down objectives as they seem to change day by day as I read more or get stuck on another tangent. I suppose this is the natural progression of research however I'm almost feeling a little overloaded with possibilities and fear a good lot of time could be sacrificed exploring a path which I will later decide I don't want to include - I never was a particularly decisive person. 

I know I'm in the early stages at the moment, but it's fast becoming apparent how much research immerses you. I've caught myself a few times recently in the midst of normal conversation with friends that I manage to turn into some sort of topic investigation, or in one case, an argument. A close friend of mine looking to buy a flat in the near future told me how he would never buy a flat in a 'new-build' because local housing policy states that 50% of the flats must be filled with local residents... which he doesn't want to share his halls with... but he doesn't want to live in any other postcode... what!? A subsequent rant by me ensued about social integration, community development and gentrification where before I knew it I was spitting out all sorts of academic babble at him. I'm not quite sure when I will next be invited to dinner there but the passion with which I started my little tirade did demonstrate how involved I'm becoming with what I'm reading. I do genuinely care about it and I don't believe I'll be able to write 15,000 words on something I don't about so that's good to know I guess.... now I just have to figure out how to squeeze events into all that somehow. 


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Lydia Kotini said...

Hello Bronwyn,

perhaps you could research whether people refuse to attend an event or are more likely to attend another because of its location (or even more specific its exact postcode!!) if you focus only in London, UK. Does the venue make a difference to them agreeing to going and paying for an event or not. Or you could even measure the importance of the venue to the (prospect) attendee. For example, would they go to the event because they want to attend it regardless of its location and venue?
I found it a bit ridiculous that "businesses" would choose a restaurant over an other due to its location and not so much to its content/food/atmosphere as it implies a "higher" status..
I think it will be extremely useful research in identifying the difficulty of choosing and booking a venue and it will be a great marketing tool for those that are in the "preferred" locations.
Hope it helps a bit,
Lydia

20 February 2009 at 09:10

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