#student research

[howdoyouexpressloneliness]

How do you express loneliness?

Hi everyone,

I’m currently writing my master’s thesis in social work on the topic of loneliness. After already having written a bachelor's thesis on loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown using a questionnaire as a research tool, my thesis supervisor and I came to the conclusion to stay on the same topic but handle it with a different approach.

Everyone has had experiences with loneliness in their life. No matter if they felt lonely themselves or heard about it, seen it on TV or read about it. Within my master’s thesis I want to explore the different ways people express loneliness. The research question of the master's thesis is therefore: "How do you express loneliness?".

My idea was to base the research on submissions. Within the submissions everything is possible, no matter if it is textual or written, artistic, videos, songs, photography or anything else that might help contextualize loneliness. (Examples could be: poems, texts, essays, haikus, lyrics, paintings, drawings, collages, videos, songs, photos etc.)

Please send your submissions to the Google Forms page created for this purpose: https://forms.gle/dF8xYQYz51ncUwSp9

Or to the e-mail: expressingloneliness@gmail.com

(If you’re German or can speak the language, please make sure to submit your work in German because that is the language the master’s thesis will be written in. But I am grateful for any and all submissions)

All submissions are confidential and will only be used for the purpose of research for my master’s thesis. All submissions are anonymous and any information to any personal information will be anonymized.

If you have any questions or suggestions please make sure to reach out to me! You can find me at the e-mail address: expressingloneliness@gmail.com or @howdoyouexpressloneliness on tumblr.com.

Thank you for participating!

[stemgirlchic]

research is so cool bc like i want to explore something and i just can. like they let me. it's legal and everything. i want to find the answer to a question and then i do. does this make sense guys? i want to know something and in a few hours or days or weeks or months or years i know it.

[hexlix]

Hi, everyone! My name is Nate - I'm a UI/UX student looking to develop an app for pet owners. ^-^/ We're looking to collect data on the struggles that pet owners face and where the main pain points of pet ownership are! This survey should take no more than 5 minutes, and if you're willing to participate in an interview afterwards, I would be most appreciated!

Please reblog so I can get some good data!

[constance-mcentee]

Maurice and Me

Sunday, 26 November 2023

In reading “Mutually Exclusive: Being Gay and Being a Man in E.M. Forster’s Maurice” by Kimber Foreman (https://scholar.umw.edu/student_research/469/), I think I’ve gained an insight as to why this book resonated with me so much.

In Maurice by E. M. Forster, the title character struggles with being gay in Edwardian England. Being gay is a social impossibility, as men are supposed to be masculine and masculinity means heterosexual. This is the only normal way to be, and Maurice is assured by those whom he consults to cure him that he’s perfectly normal and, therefore, not gay.

Growing up, I felt that I was not anything but a normal person. Sure, I had different tastes in music and entertainment than my peers, but that didn’t make me abnormal. No. Being bisexual or otherwise bending gender roles was something the Decidedly Not Normal did. People like Boy George or Prince. Not me.

Oh, boy.

I didn't think I could possibly be queer. I was just a normal boy whose political ideas tended toward feminism. And, why not? Girls and women seemed less violent than boys and men, and I lacked the ability or interest in aggression.

Perhaps being queer, transgender, and Catholic during the Reagan regime wasn’t so different from being a gay man in Edwardian England.

[neanderthalfunerary]

Term Paper: Mortuary Practices in the Symbolic Culture of Neanderthals

Abstract: The significance of burial rituals for Homo neanderthalensis throughout their time on Earth attests to a rich symbolic culture and a cognitive capacity for social organization and connectedness, yet a sparse fossil record restricts comprehensive understanding of behavioral processes driving both unique and widespread interment techniques.

From pinpointing the advent of intentional burials, to finding distinct patterns within chronological and population groupings, there are no easy answers to the questions posed by available literature. Examining funerary site features alongside constructs such as symbolic culture, sociality, and modernity requires a reinterpretation of models rooted in our own species’ characteristics.

Nevertheless, it is clear that Neanderthals shared a complexity akin to that of early Homo sapiens, and future findings will only enhance our understanding of their advanced connection to the environment and peoples around them.

[dyl-pickleee]

Howdy gamers

I've been working on a research team looking into attitudes surrounding sustainability for about 6 months, and it would mean the world to me if y'all would take our survey and send it to as many people as you can! Only requirement is you must be over 18, but if you can't take it, share it!

Reblog to expand sample size (literally)!!!!

[obaewankenope]

For someone's studies. Kinda fun to do. Animals and gender, good mix.

[townpostin]

XITE Gamharia Hosts Seminar on Global Business Adaptation

Students and faculty gather for seminar on adapting to global economic changes A seminar titled ‘Adapting Business and Economy to Global Transformation’ was organized by the Business Administration Department at XITE Gamharia (Autonomous) on June 29, 2024. JAMSHEDPUR – The Department of Business Administration at XITE Gamharia (Autonomous) hosted a seminar focusing on the theme of adapting…

[discoursets]

[legodna]

You guys wanna see a science Lego set? Well, here's Lego DNA!

With a scientifically accurate DNA model, and a historically accurate lab + 5 scientists!

Aims: to promote science to kids and honor Rosalind Franklin.

Less than 4,000 votes needed to get it considered as a real official Lego set to be sold worldwide!

If you like it, please support here and share with your friends: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/c92cd95b-49e7-46ec-b844-ac6482c51139

[demeter-deliveredcbd]

CBD Users Please Interact!

Hello! I am a student researching how to better different communities, and specifically trying to better the CBD online purchasing experience. Please fill out the form below if you are a CBD user with input to give and wish to help out! This is a super short form too so we really appreciate it!!

Thank you everyone!

[ncfcatalyst]

A Look into Gender Studies at NCF: What interdisciplinary research looks like

Gender Studies has long solidified itself as a pertinent field of study in universities, having emerged in the 1970s from Women’s Studies. Gender Studies was established at New College in 1995 and “draws on curricula across the campus (and beyond) to introduce students to the complex focal problem of ‘gender,’” according to the official New College webpage. A spotlight is in order to highlight…

[rowanofferelden]

Hi! My name is Lucia and I am a PhD student in ancient history. I am currently working on a small project about fanfiction and what it can teach us about the creation of mythology in the Graeco-Roman antiquity. For that, I need your help. Please answer the following questionaire about fanfiction - it should not take more than 5minutes. This questionaire deals with a specific fanfiction phenomenon and I did not include it in the title to not influence the data. Please finish answering it even if you say no to most questions - it will still help me out immensely. After finishing the questionaire, an abstract that explains what this questionaire is actually for will be provided.

Thank you!

EDIT: Thank you for your help! This survey is closed for now. If a case can be made, there will be an update sometime later. If not, I am glad so many people had fun. Have a nice day. :)

[hexlix]

[REBLOG PLS!💖] Hi everyone! I'm a UI/UX student looking to collect some data from people who enjoy eating out! It will take less than 5min to fill out and I would really appreciate taking the time to provide data for us!

[jstor]

Searching best practices on JSTOR

Hi Tumblr researchers,

As promised, we're going to dive into some best practices for searching on JSTOR. This'll be a long one!

The first thing to note is that JSTOR is not Google, so searches should not be conducted in the same way.

More on that in this video:

Basic Search on JSTOR

To search for exact phrases, enclose the words within quotation marks, like "to be or not to be".

To construct a more effective search, utilize Boolean operators, such as "tea trade" AND china.

Advanced Searching on JSTOR

Utilize the drop-down menus to refine your search parameters, limiting them to the title, author, abstract, or caption text.

Combine search terms using Boolean operators like AND/OR/NOT and NEAR 5/10/25. The NEAR operator finds keyword combinations within 5, 10, or 25 words of each other. It applies only when searching for single keyword combinations, such as "cat NEAR 5 dog," but not for phrases like "domesticated cat" NEAR 5 dog.

Utilize the "Narrow by" options to search for articles exclusively, include/exclude book reviews, narrow your search to a specific time frame or language.

To focus your article search on specific disciplines and titles, select the appropriate checkboxes. Please note that discipline searching is currently limited to journal content, excluding ebooks from the search.

Finding Content You Have Access To

To discover downloadable articles, chapters, and pamphlets for reading, you have the option to narrow down your search to accessible content. Simply navigate to the Advanced Search page and locate the "Select an access type" feature, which offers the following choices:

All Content will show you all of the relevant search results on JSTOR, regardless of whether or not you can access it.

Content I can access will show you content you can download or read online. This will include Early Journal Content and journals/books publishers have made freely available.

Once you've refined your search, simply select an option that aligns with your needs and discover the most relevant items. Additionally, you have the option to further narrow down your search results after conducting an initial search. Look for this option located below the "access type" checkbox, situated at the bottom left-hand side of the page.

Additional resources

For more search recommendations, feel free to explore this page on JSTOR searching. There, you will find information on truncation, wildcards, and proximity, using fields, and metadata hyperlinks.

[thesecrethistori-an]

PhD Day 38 (yesterday): this time for real, I finished doing all the changes my supervisor suggested so I have finally fully submitted my grant proposal!