The seminar will take place on Tuesday, May 28th, from 15:30 to 17:00 (NU-4B47). You can find more information below.
After the seminar, drinks will be hosted at the KIN Center for Digital Innovation on the fifth floor of the main building at VU. Please register your attendance by replying to your invitation by Wednesday, May 22nd the latest (for catering purposes).
Abstract
Despite the centrality of research phenomena, the process of their definition is often neglected and reduced to a simple choosing of pre-established subjects of interest. However, good research not only includes empirical work aimed at more or less ‘given as fact’ phenomena. It also involves phenomena construction: that is, the process of generating and establishing phenomena to investigate and theorize. In the presentation I contend that phenomena construction is not separate from, but integral to, both the empirical and theorizing phases in research. As few phenomena are truly ‘given’ or straightforward to observe, good research calls for careful and creative construction of the phenomenon under investigation. I propose and elaborate a framework that enables researchers to generate and establish research phenomena beyond those currently available in their specific area of interest and, based on this, to produce more imaginative and impactful research.