Poster Research progression with three weeks to go

For this blog I will be reflecting on how I am finding the group research project with only three weeks to go. Having participated in group research and presentation before I understand how to work in a group well, however the process is still daunting and still different to others I have done before but having done a similar process before I know how and what to do In order to get the best results possible. When looking at theories and literature I found a piece of work by Seltiz et al who argued that 'research is a way of enabling people to search again, to take another look or find out more' (Seltiz et al 1976). I am enjoying looking and researching all the different theorist around our topic of research as I have a high interest in the genre which we have all chosen to do and is also giving a taster of how to undergo my research when working on my dissertation.

When my group sat down for the first time to discuss what we were going to do we initially came up with different ideas and areas of interest that could be easily research considering we were unable to conduct primary research. From this we came up with out hypothesis and area that we were going to concentrate on, and then started to look at brief ideas and theorists that were key to gaining further knowledge and understanding even though we already had quite a good knowledge on what we were researching. From this we split the tasks up evenly and started to look at further research, which we would collect data and then collate this all together at the end ready to write up on our poster.

Now with only a few weeks left to go before the actually conference where are poster will be looked at, our group has still got lots to do. Having changed our research process and hypothesis we encountered having to look at research a whole new topic. The topic we finally decided to do was 'The societal Factors that cause Female Drug Use' this area of topic is right up my street so will be very beneficial in the long run to do. Our theories which we have decided to use are those of Durkheim, Becker, Merton and Parker et al as these have most relevance to our topic of discussion. The theories and sociological debates that I have researched have just further initiated my interest further and I am really enjoying the research I am looking at and I find I am understanding it very well which will be crucial when trying to collate the information and putting all the information together.

Sitting down and creating the poster and collating our information will be our very last step and we hope to have this finished in the last week possible. I am looking forward to seeing how it turns out once it is finished actually getting the presentation over and done with as the closer it gets the more I am not looking forward to it.