Part 1: Academy High Spots, 17 - 21 Sept. 2007

The 1st week of the Academy has been great and gave new insights into the following: conducting reproducible research; narrowing a topic and reading extensively around it; issues to consider in enhancing postgraduate research; Masters students may not necessarily publish articles from their theses; current research thinking in disciplines; terminologies in use; technologies such as blogs provide opportunities to get into researchers' online environments; practical experience in creating blogs and sharing knowledge through this medium; refreshed my knowledge about documents/census records as original source materials; role of information professionals in opening up hidden resources to researchers and defining performance indicators in research.


This has been a great help in rethinking my research methodology and the extent of my literature review. I was convinced on the the importance of "deep transformative theory" in the production of new knowledge;