Research Proposal

Research Proposal

1. Rationale

   • Important landscape - vital understanding
   • Gap in literature - research social effects
   • Growing market (ethic enclaves) - aid policy making

2. Methods

   • Ethnography?
     • 6 months provide enough time?
   • Focus groups
     • With sexual minorities - understanding sense of place
   • Interviews
     • Observations of interactions/conflict
       • Police
       • Security
       • Charities
   • Data Analysis
     • Police records - trends
     • News articles

3. Risks and Ethics

   • Research
     • Rigorous and well planned
     • Factual
   • Researcher
     • Understand challenges - research subjects: sexual minorites
     • Time of day
     • Political correct
   • Researched subject
     • Anonymous/confidental
     • Aware of risks
     • Participation voluntary
     • Understood purpose, reasoning behind research and involvement in methodology

4. First thoughts

   • Diverse
   • Highly celebrated community
   • Vibrant, welcoming

5. Space

   • container of social relations
   • geographical immagination
   • co-constructed
   • relationship between people and space

6. 'Space invasion'

   • Changed dynamics of gay space?
   • Trends of violence/conflict