Nick LapthornHead of Centre – Juniper Hall Field Centrenick.jh@field-studies-council.org

QualitativeQuantitativ

e

Primary Secondary

RESEARCH

GIS and NEW TECHNOLOGIES

20th Century

Fieldwork?

21st Century

Fieldwork?

STYLES

LOCATIONS

Sustainable transport

Eco/carbon footprints

Energy audits

Food miles Activity patterns

Place checklists

Exciting new opportunities

Weather-watch

Flood-risk determinatio

n

Catchment manageme

nt

Exclusion by gender /

age

Use and miss-use of

green spaces

Tourism profiles

Sustainable

communitiesRoof

hydrographs

Clone townsRe-

branding the 24hr

city

Shoreline manageme

nt

Lifestyle analysis

Place profiles

Right to roam

Ecological value

Studentification

Mobility pathways

Think maps

Impression maps

Stakeholder views

Less need to measure in minute detail.

Holistic and topical studies.

Greater opportunity for ‘qualitative’ approaches.

Greater relevance of topics to everyday situations.

Find data

Select and Sort

Synthesise and Analyse

Record and Report

Lots of choice

Range of articles newspapers

Guardian & Independent

GeoFactsheet

GeoFile online

GeoNews Review

Geography Review

Geographical ‘dossier’

Remember to use their websites

Try the exam boards

Google Books Search http://books.google.com/

Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/

Who published the information◦Organisation/Agency/Individual

Who wrote the information◦Expert or interested individual?

The age of the material

Why the material exists◦Academic research/Special interest groups

Library •Has helpful staff to help you

find things. Organised!

•Provides free access to print and paper copies of items, e.g. journals

•Archived information available

•Doesn’t always have what you want

•Not always up to date copies

•Closes after hours

•Cant always take out reference copies

•Nearly all in written form

Internet •Open all hours

•Provides access to global resources, e.g. newspaper from India

•Complete multimedia experience

•Updated information

•Two way communication

•No universal system of cataloguing and organising resources

•Anyone can publish things

•May have to pay for internet time

•May have to pay for some resources

All about participant observation: “people writing”

A picture tells a 1000 words?

Oral Histories Direct participant observation (movements

and flows) – covert or overt? Focus groups Personal video (extended) interviews Diary of an event, e.g. city food festival

Keep personal observations in a field note book / diary

Price Prediction: High – Med – Low

Actual Average Price (approx): £___________

Price Prediction: High – Med – Low

Actual Average Price (approx): £___________

Price Prediction: High – Med – Low

Actual Average Price (approx): £___________

Price Prediction: High – Med – Low

Actual Average Price (approx): £___________

Gold lettering in TNR, British Racing green

Gold lettering in TNR, British Racing green

Curved facade to allow more display space

Curved facade to allow more display space

What if all the shops in the street were like this? Who would(n’t) come?

What if all the shops in the street were like this? Who would(n’t) come?

Sophisticated, high quality, traditional

Sophisticated, high quality, traditional

“GIS has the ability to store, retrieve, manipulate and analyse a range of spatially related data”

The user can:

• ask questions of data related to the map

• search for patterns and distributions

• investigate the underlying relationships between different sets of data

Article in Geography Review: March 2007

Spatial UnderstandingEnquiry learningIdentifying relationshipsVocational elementMotivation

FREE EXPENSIVE

EASY TO USE COMPLICATED

Often web based

BASIC SOPHISTICATED

Sometimes a ‘cut-down’ version

DIGITAL MAPPING (eg. Anquet, Memory Map)

MAPPING LAYERS (eg Magic, Census, Google Earth)

INTEROGATIVE GIS(eg Aegis, ArcInfo)

GA GTIP Pagehttp://www.geography.org.uk/projects/gtip/gis/http://www.geography.org.uk/projects/gtip/thinkpieces/gis

RGS GIS Pagewww.gis.rgs.org

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