Part A: Introduction and Research Design
This includes:
Research Aim, Research Context and Literature Review (30 Marks)
For this research you choose one of the research aims listed below:
Making sense of feelings and emotions
Increasing self-awareness
Understanding and making sense of a trigger (‘A Critical incident’).
The research context is based on which professional identity you feel describes you now and or your future aspirations:
HRM = CIPD located at https://www.cipd.co.uk/learn/career/profession-map
Marketing = CIM located at https://www.cim.co.uk/more/professional-marketing-competencies/
Financial Management = ACCA located at http://www.accaglobal.com/uk/en/member/standards/rules-and-standards.html
Management = CMI located at https://www.managers.org.uk/policies/code-of-conduct-and-practice
From the professional body to frame your research choose at least 3 behaviours or values or professional standards (this is dependent upon the professional body).
For this part you are required to write at least 1000 words on your choice of research aim, the choice of professional body context and how you will approach this reflection as a literature review using academic citations of the approach to journaling (e.g. writing through the mirror; metaphorical approaches; artistic approaches; critical incident; mirror metaphors; cycles of reflection; experiential approaches; biographical approaches).
Research Design, Methodology and Method (40 Marks)
The purpose of this part is for you to critique and justify your research design in terms of your methodology (e.g. reflexive dialogic action research; reflexivity; auto-ethnographic practices; arts based or a bricolage of methodologies) and your method (Cycles of reflection e.g. Gibbs cycle or Gardner Cycle; JOHARI window; your personal cultural texts including your approach to coding these as qualitative data) and a critique of the research design (this is where you discuss and evaluate your researcher voice and the challenges you faced completing this critical qualitative inquiry).
This should be at least 1000 words and you are expected to have academic citations to support your critique and evaluation of your research design, methodology and method.
You are required to provide a full bibliographic list of academic citations (all readings which you have cited in text and also read but not cited) using the Harvard referencing system. This does not count towards the word count.
Part B: Digital Storyboard (30 Marks)
This is the presentation of the analysed personal cultural texts in the form of a ‘storyboard’. The storyboard can be presented as either (choose 1 only);
At least a 1000 word Critical Incident Analysis
At least a 1000 word Creative Writing
Whichever method of presentation you choose you should include a list of sources which have been used to create the storyboard (not counted in word count).
