Proposed Research Question or Theme

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Initial Proposed Research Question or Theme:
How Does Higher Education Effect/Encourage Lad Culture?

(Research Behind) What research needs to be undertaken into the general and specific contexts of the Research Project?
Historical/cultural/social/technological/economical/political/important illustrators/thinkers/writers/philosophers. Any dominant/prevailing attitudes? Subject culturally specific?

• Sport/society initiations 'welcome drinks'
• Interviews
• Lad culture - effects, incidents, examples of things happening?
• Sex 'scoring' girls become conquests - objectified.
• Do uni's with more mature students not have this lad culture as much?
• Competition- does this fuel lad culture? 
• Pack mentality from the way they dress - fancy dress on nights out- recognisable as a pack.
• Start uni in new place not knowing anyone - need to find a group/pack to identify with?
• No authoritative elders with an impact on the social side of uni - no one stopping the behaviour or witnessing it. The older students in charge of societies encourage the behaviour to get the group to bond. 
• 'lad points'

(Research Through) What approaches could be taken and what processes, methods, materials and tools could be involved in the Research Project?
How will you approach the subject? What questions will you ask? Why? Methodology- psychology research methods- collating results infer and why? Strategy/qualitative vs quantative/how will you use illustration as a strategy. Video interviews/ questionnaires. Methodology - get books from library- theories. Sociological/theory - acknowledge at start of project - epistemology- thinking through doing/reflective practice- Schon.

• Media Coverage
• Geordie Shore/Made in Chelsea/ The Only Way is Essex - all the same age group roughly, all different parts of the country and different social/class groups.
• It's not a new thing - peacocking - animalistic/ primeval
• Identify another way of identifying 'lad culture' from throughout history: boys going off to war etc.
• Look at history/magazines how are they showing the ideal way to be portrayed? Spray tans, gym, gains/ do you even lift? hashtags on instagram etc gym obsessed youth get paid for endorsing fitness products - less to do with going out for runs and nature and more to do with fitness in the gym environment- weights - more about aesthetics than health. 

(Research For) What preparation or investigations needs to be undertaken for the Research Project to take place?
HOW will you investigate it/ do you have to research into methods and techniques? Do you need to research into materials/media etc. Maximise effectiveness of research.

• Interviews 
• Questionaires 
• New wave banter
• 21 Jump Street - Channing Tatam - Role reversal/ Challenges lad culture.
• Bad Neighbours - American uni lad culture… is our new phase of lad culture influenced by american uni society e.g. fraternities and sororities.
• Research into research methods such as quantitative vs qualitative and think about reliable and bias sources etc.

(Research In Front of) What research needs to be undertaken regarding who the project is for?
Who is the research project for? Who is your audience for? In a context- professional. Can anyone use/make use of your project/research? How? Collaboration? Shakes you out of your stylistic comfort zone. How would your tone of voice change if you targeted your research as a different audience?

• Where do women come into this? What does this do to women and how do they effect 'lads' - are boys trying to impress each other or impress girls. 
• What do boys who aren't lads feel about them?
• Would lads refer to themselves as lads? if not is it because they feel there are negative connotations? 

Sources of further Research (Illustrators, Books, Websites)

• Identify the different lad cultures in different casts of Geordie Shore, The Only Way is Essex and Made in Chelsea - can use as easy case studies - also how do people perceive them. 

Suggestions for a revised Research Question based on the above?