Author: Freya Wise
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Fieldwork is fun! Update
This is a quick update on my previous post now that the OU research competition is over. The previous one talked about how I made the video (which you can read here). https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/design/fieldwork-is-fun/ It was great fun to make and it was really pleasing that it won the multimedia community choice category in the recent competition: http://www.open.ac.uk/research/news/ou-postgraduate-research-poster-competition-2020.…
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Fieldwork is Fun!?
I’m researching ways to reduce carbon emissions from residential heritage buildings while retaining their heritage values. I’m focussing on Cumbria and the Lake District National Park and before the small matter of coronavirus prevented all activities I was halfway through my fieldwork. My fieldwork is made up of visits to residential buildings across Cumbria and…
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Heritage buildings, carbon emissions… and gingerbread!
One day in early October, as I was quietly wandering along, minding my own business, I was accosted by a lady from the graduate school. ‘Ah, the very person I was looking for!’ She said. My heart sank, ever since I foolishly showed up for a number of training sessions during the first year of…
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Playmobil as a design and communication tool
PhD students at the OU are encouraged to engage in ‘research dissemination’, so that we can share our research with lots of different audiences with various knowledge levels. Every year in early June the graduate school holds a Postgraduate Research Poster Competition to give us an opportunity to share our research. As a first year…