The first week

The week's activities are fitting together nicely; I am able to appreciate the need to have revisited and been exposed to, for the first time in terms of some aspects, as an overview, the varied nature and individualistic nature of research as a creative enterprise. The research journey has no defined beginning or end, although the publication aspects focus research in particular ways; and approaches and methodologies are as varied and contested as there are researchers. The tenacity and passion of researchers has been fascinating and explains how the boundaries of research are constantly being pushed forward. I am now so fully aware of how necessary it is to engage in the 'languages' of the various dsiciplines and in practice one needs to be mindful of differences. The parallels with what Bill Bryson describes have been so useful.