18 hours to go!!!

tomorrow is the last day!! therefore everyone is frantically writing their research proposal! had a meeting with james today. had a chat about the structure of my paper as well as some points on which i could elaborate/tidy-up. this was useful as i had a fair bit written down before i met him but realized i needed to add more issues to the paper, more specifically- theory! it has meant i have a lot more work to do now...but its a good thing as the direction has made me understand whats more important etc. and actually made me more aware of the way in which to set about writing such a proposal.

the structure of my paper is fine, i think i have understood the methodologies quite well and explained that section fairly ok. i dont think the literature review is great but theres still time to improve on that! every minute really does count... the objectives/aims/research questions have been ironed out. everything is coming to plan and i finally have a grip of whats going on and where to go next, just wish i had a little more time....oh well.......

nearly there!!!

85 hours and 21 mins left until the end of year, as you can guess i can not wait!! bit sad with the whole finishing thing but thats how it goes. i have been telling melik for weeks that i have been really looking forward to our last lecture....that would really mean the end of classrooms and teaching for me, but the last lecture was cancelled!!! i missed my last undergraduate lecture as well, oh well theres that for the education send off! we have now passed the bulk of the work and have just our research proposal remaining. wednesday will be a great day (or not) to remember...

so far the proposal is going good. i have managed to set aside some time for it while i had my other bits of coursework and thats allowed to a bit of research. the struggles i had with answering "is there a decline...?" have not gone a bit as i have managed to find some more info. i still need to find some more up to date info though. last meeting i had with james he told me to consider the whole market on the supply and demand side rather than focussing on one area at a time, this helped. considering the bigger picture actually makes it easier to focus on certain things. the structure of my dissertation is taking more shape now. meeting with james and the discussions we have as well as me doing the research makes it clearer on how to approach the topic.

question i would consider: "are electronic music events in the uk seeing mass closure due to frailties in event design?"

so all tidied up with james input, this comes to!!

Research Ojective:
To investigate the role of event design and production in the decline of the electronic music market...

Research questions:
Has the market for electronic music events followed the same patterns of decline as the wider electronic music market?
Does Event design and production have an impact on consumers' consumption of electronic music?

So there we go for now....this time tuesday should be my final blog.....but as ive taken a bit of a liking to this i shall continue until my dissertation is finished!!!