Lecture 1: An introduction to investigating social and spatial environments

Investigating social and spatial environments. Lecture 1.
Looking at the relationship between places and people (Module interest).

 Key terms for this module: 
 * Research: Process of critical investigation
 * Field: Research location (has an outdoors element, but could be the library or city).
 * Data: Information from which knowledge is made (people derive all different types of knowledge based on the same data).
 * Methodology: Research methods and reflection on how to frame questions and responses
 * Ethics: Questions of rights and wrongs (e.g is it right to do covert research and not tell those who you are researching).
 * Epistemology: Theory of knowledge. (These underly how we go about carrying out research).

There are different ways of researching within geography. These change as the discipline changes, the people within the discipline changes and there are different ideas about what geography should be about, and how society changes.

For example, geography being taught in the US is different from the geography that is being taught in the UK

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Eden project investigation : What does the Eden project do, how does it do it and how successful is it?

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