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You are warmly welcomed to this week’s research process seminar.

Thinking about epistemology – where do we start as researchers and how to make that word more exciting than it sounds?

When we approach research, do we have an overarching structure of objectives that keeps us on topic and helps us to keep our work focused and efficient ? Instinctively, we know what we are trying to do, but so often there will be forks or bumps in the road, and some wider structural architecture is useful to help us negotiate those. We have a number of traditional choices as researchers, and while these are well suited to some types of research, they are lacking for some others. So this talk suggests a pragmatic option for media research, and one that adds value and the dimension of explanation for our work.

About the speaker:

Professor Richard Thomas is the Head of the School of Culture and Communication at Swansea University. In this role, he oversees the operations of the subject areas of English Literature, Applied Linguistics, Modern Languages, Welsh, History, Classics and Media. His research concerns the quantifying and qualifying of the trends and patterns in the coverage of economics, business, finance, politics and conflict by a range of news outlets ranging from TV and radio to online blogging and social media. He is the co-author of “Reporting Elections: Rethinking the Logic of Campaign Coverage” and has published many other journal articles and book chapters. He was the CO-Investigator in a joint Cardiff University/Swansea University project examining Alternative Political Online News. He has also been engaged in other research commissioned by and working with, media regulators. He is the Global Chair of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Degree Advisory Board, working with journalists from across the world.

Tuesday 3^rd June at 2pm

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