Doing Research in Design

Doing Research in Design

A comprehensive exploration of design research methods, with particular focus on the social impacts of design.

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Christopher Crouch coordinates Higher Degrees by Research in the School of Communications and Arts at Edith Cowan University, Australia, and is Professor in the School of Art and Design, Southwest University, Chongqing, China. He is author of Modernism in Art, Design and Architecture (1999) and editor of Subjectivity, Creativity and the Institution (2009) and Contemporary Chinese Visual Culture: Tradition, Modernity and Globalisation (2010). Jane Pearce is Senior Lecturer in Education at Murdoch University, Australia, and author of Identity and Pedagogy: Critical Reflections on Teaching in a University (2008).

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Introduction
1. Positioning the Designer
2. What Do Designers and Researchers Do? Thinking, Doing and Researching
3. Practice and Praxis, Reflection and Reflexivity
4. Thinking about Research: Methodology
5. Doing Research: From Methodologies to Methods
6. In the Picture: Ethnography and Observation
7. Understanding Through Story: Narratives 8. Using Case Studies and Mixed Methods
9. Action Research
10. Writing About Research
Bibliography Index