Supervision meeting

Supervisory Meeting for Nothando Ngwenya on the 22nd of February at 2pm in Paul Kingston’s Office.

Present: NN, PK, SM

1) Had a brief discussion on the seminar presentation I gave on the 21st of February on my RDC1. Some issues, pointers I was given are
· Look at the audience and read from the computer rather than the overhead.
· Do not rely heavily on the notes, instead use them as prompts and not read continually from them.
· Just keep practising.
2) Paul gave me a leaflet on a conference to be held in Bath in September, and thought it would be useful if I managed to submit an abstract. The conference is The Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal. www.bath.ac.uk/cdas/ews/conferences
3) Stella agreed with the conference and though it would give me a wider perspective of the different methodologies used in research since the conference includes a wide range of professions; - anthropologists, historians, cultural geographers, philosophers, social policy analysts and many others.
4) We then discussed the work I should concentrate on and decided on the method chapter. I was advised to look into the philosophy of social research and see the different approaches that are available in social sciences, in order for me to be able to justify my choices against the ones I will reject. This will also aid the interviews to have a theoretical philosophical foundation.
5) Next meeting will be the 19th of March 2007 at 10:00am


Things to do by next meeting

1) Do an abstract for the bath conference.
2) Read on the philosophy of social research and write the different approaches’ definitions on an A4 side paper.