Dissertation Proposal: Street Food Vending
Please read the outline, marking criteria, and relevant literature very carefully. If you have any question, please don't hesitate to ask!
Here are some advice:
Regarding readings on the topic …
To have a good understanding on the topic, literatures on urban regulations, urban public space, street food vending etc. would be helpful. These will help you in introducing previous work on the issue + how your proposed topic will contribute to the knowledge in that subject area and geography in general. Take the readings I sent you as a starting point, then take a look at some other papers in the reference lists (especially Koch, highly recommended).
Regarding research methods…
You might want to do some readings on qualitative methods in human geography e.g. observational and ethnographic methods, interviews. While reading, ask yourself:
- why you chosen the techniques? What would be the strengths of these approaches in comparison to others?
- how and when you might want to adopt these techniques in your study?
- how do they work?
- What are the problems you might encounter and how will these be overcome?
- how would you analyse the material at the end?
For ethnography – what to observe?
For interviews – what questions to ask? (Appendix: a draft interview schedule + sample questions)
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