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- What is the research question?
– The happiness of people who are supported by government in the UK
(What is the minimal lives that are assured by the UK government)
- What is the particular ethnographic focus?
– Individual value of happiness.
- Why is this of particular interest to them?
– Because the individual values of happiness are base of public health service. If people cannot feel happiness, they never satisfied with health services.
< Focus in on why they chose this topic >
- Is it exploring a context or theme that they have personal experience of?
– Throughout of my experience as a medical doctor and a consultant of global health, I recognise that one of the biggest challenges of public health is a discrepancy of what people want and the health policies. To solve this problem, I want to make clear the individual values on health.
- Is it something that they are fascinated by for other reasons?
– I have been wanting to find the answer to a question “The meaning of lives”
- What preconceived ideas are they bringing to this research?
– My work experience:
Medical Doctor (mainly as a cardiac surgeon)
Professor at a Public Health at a Japanese Medical School
Consultant for Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affaire
– My personal backgrounds
Educational background (I graduated a medical school and have PhD in medical science)
Financial background (middle class in a developed countries)
Ethnicity and Nationality as a “Japanese”
Gender (Female)
Position in my family (the youngest sister)
– My preferences
I have been preferring “stability” since I was a child.
- Reflect on how their positionality might inform how they conduct research and interpret their findings.
– At least, I have to consider my stance twice. One is if my conclusion is objective from my view. The other is that how readers of my article consider fromw their views.
– I need to find “the biases from me” and “the biases from others”. For example, Japanese, as a citizen of one of G7 countries, the difference between “the Western culture” and Japan is not that big but that for the UK citizen seems not so small. I guess it depends on the culture of news. I think it is a kind of “valve” of culture. When I write the “anthropological” articles, I need to mind this issue.
- Might their lived experience inform the way they interact with their participants?
- Do class, race, gender, sexuality, or other identities inform their approach to the research? Might it offer particular insights?
– It could be. Probably when I research about so-called “vulnerable” people, showing my vulnerable background like “Asian” “Female” “Immigrant” “who cannot use English well” support to get efficient information from subjects.
- How might this inform the interpretation of data?
– It could influence strongly to my research. I need to discuss about analyses. At least, If I publish English articles, I need to imagine how Western readers understand them. (Even if they don’t consider how non-Westerners consider their articles when they publish their articles ).