In February 2021, my fellow coursemates and I made a start on our live projects. Starting on Monday 15th February 2021, we all attended a week’s worth of online tutorials with our course leader, Dr Ryan Burns. He talked us through the live project process; the assessments involved; he also gave us tutorials on how to use the online library resources at our disposal and how to create an ethical review using BREAM (the Brighton Research Ethics Application Manager).
Personally, it took me a while to comprehend some of the more complex features involved when using BREAM, but it was a unique exercise in thinking carefully about the ethics of my project. It also encouraged me to think about how to recruit and approach participants when conducting online interviews. Furthermore, getting to grips with BREAM also encouraged me to consider issues like confidentiality and data protection.
On Wednesday, 16th February, I contacted the Rampion Wind Farm to talk about my project. I spoke with a man named Thomas, but I didn’t go into too much detail about my project other than it was a media-related project, so I asked him if I can speak with someone who specialises in communications. Thomas said that I should get a call back from the Rampion media team to talk to them about my project.
As part of this module, we all had to write up a 2,000-word project brief that mapped out what we wanted to do with our projects. I submitted my project brief on Monday, 22nd February, as a formative assessment (also known as a ‘dummy run’) for Ryan to check through it and give feedback. The formative brief didn’t have to be 100% complete, but it was a helpful exercise to see what direction I needed to take my project. Subsequently, I applied this feedback to my summative project brief and submitted it on Friday, 26th February.
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