For this episode, we welcome a very special guest to the studio… Emma! She’s still working away at her EdD and has been concentrating on the research design. This includes not only piloting her project on a small scale, but also getting to grips with tricky things such as her worldview, paradigm, ontology, epistemology and axiology - all long words to strike fear into researchers. 

In discussing her work in progress with Tom, she ended up providing enough content for two episodes! In this first one we concentrate on ontology, epistemology and axiology, and how understanding those things help the researcher come to understand their worldview and what that means for how to undertake a research study. 

We hope you find this a non-threatening look at plenty of big words! Next time, we’ll bring you the second half of the discussion, in which Emma concludes that she needs to dip her toe into the exciting world of participatory research. 

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Recorded in Studio B2.15 at Cardiff Metropolitan University’s Cyncoed Campus on 8th August 2024