Introduction

 

• What kind of topics are you interested in researching?

I am interested in researching about autism, stigma and eating disorders.

• What initial research questions might be starting to emerge for you?

Is autism a precedent for eating disorders? How does autism affect eating disorders?

• What are you interested in researching - people, groups, communities, documents, images, organisations?

All, but especially people and documents.

• Do you have an initial ideas for the kinds of methods that might help you to gather useful knowledge in your area of interest?

Yes, discourse analysis and interviews.

• What initial questions do you have about those methods? What don't you understand yet?

I am not clear how to implement them in practice.

• Do you perceive any potential challenges in your initial ideas: either practical challenges, such as gaining access to the area you want to research, or the time it might take to gather data; or conceptual challenges; such as how the method you are interested in can produce 'facts', 'truths', or 'valuable knowledge' in your chosen area?

Yes, it is a challenge to be able to access the target population, for example.