Methodology Match
Two decks

All 108 cards

A standard deck of 54 cards, which is the whole game, and an additional deck of 54 (marked with a small diamond) to shuffle in once you know it. Each card has a page with its definition, the positions it fits and is in tension with, and, where there is one, a longer explanation.

Drag a card sideways to turn it over. Select it to open its page.

Positions

Where do you stand? · 12 cards
Positivism: Empiricism, the scientific methodCritical RealismInterpretivismSocial Constructionism: ConstructivismPhenomenologyHermeneutics: Interpreting texts and worksPragmatismCritical Theory: Marxism, the Frankfurt SchoolFeminism: Standpoint, situated knowledgePost-structuralismNew Materialism: PosthumanismDecolonial Thought: Postcolonial, Indigenous

Methods of Collection

How will you gather material? · 17 cards
Semi-Structured InterviewsFocus GroupsParticipant Observation: EthnographyVideo RecordingArchival ResearchReflective JournalPractice DocumentationStudio Practice: Practice researchPrototypingField RecordingSocial Media Data CollectionParticipatory Workshops: Co-design, co-creationQuestionnaires: SurveysOral HistoryExperimentsCorpus of Works: Primary sourcesAutoethnography

Methods of Analysis

How will you make sense of it? · 19 cards
Thematic AnalysisGrounded TheoryInterpretative Phenomenological AnalysisNarrative AnalysisDiscourse Analysis: FoucauldianCritical Discourse AnalysisSemiotic AnalysisContent AnalysisVisual AnalysisLudological AnalysisFilm AnalysisMusical AnalysisPerformance AnalysisHistorical Source Criticism: Historical analysisStatistical AnalysisComparative Case Analysis: Case studiesCorpus AnalysisClose Reading: Textual analysisReflection on Practice

Literature

Who are you in conversation with? · 24 cards
Michel Foucault: Power/KnowledgeDeleuze & Guattari: AssemblageTheodor Adorno: The Culture IndustryWalter Benjamin: Art & ReproductionMaurice Merleau-Ponty: EmbodimentJudith Butler: Gender Performativitybell hooks: Margin to CentreDonna Haraway: Situated KnowledgesSara Ahmed: Affect & OrientationEdward Said: OrientalismFrantz Fanon: Colonialism and the BodyPierre Bourdieu: Practice TheoryBruno Latour: Actor-Network TheoryStuart Hall: Cultural StudiesKaren Barad: Agential RealismRichard Schechner: Performance StudiesLaura Mulvey: Gaze TheoryR. Murray Schafer: SoundscapeJohan Huizinga: Play TheoryDonald Schön: Reflective PracticeTim Ingold: MakingRoland Barthes: Myth and the Death of the AuthorKarl Popper: FalsificationHans-Georg Gadamer: Fusion of Horizons

Research Ethics

What do you owe to others? · 9 cards
Benefit and Harm: Consequentialist ethicsInformed Consent: Duty-based ethicsVirtue EthicsCritical ReflexivityPositionalityDecolonial ValuesDisability Justice ValuesCare Ethics: Relationships and responsibilityParticipatory Ethics

Chance

PhD life happens. · 10 cards
Archive DiscoveryStudio Space AllocatedEthics Committee FeedbackFunding Pot AnnouncedPeer Review RouletteReading GroupBreakthrough MomentImpostor SyndromeMethodology PivotSuccessful Pilot Study

Objects of Study

What everyone is studying. · 17 cards
Paintings & DrawingsSculpture & InstallationPhotographyFashion & TextilesDesign ObjectsVideo GamesTheatre & Live PerformanceDance & ChoreographyLive Music & ConcertsSocial Media ContentFilms & CinemaRecorded Music & AlbumsExhibitions & CurationAudience ResponseAesthetic ExperienceYour Own PracticeMethodology Match: This game. Yes, this one.