Jim's YDEV550 Blog

CRITICAL READING #3: Research Methodologies The research methodologies I've read are all familiar to me based on my previous educational and professional backgrounds when I was back in the Philippines. I took up Marketing Management back in college and we had a course about market research and that's the first time I've encountered these methodologies. After getting my bachelor's degree, I worked as a Brand Manager for 4 years at one of the leading food and beverage manufacturing companies in the country. Being in that field, I've conducted and been a part of a lot of research studies for various products -- new and existing products. Looking back, what I remember was that the hardest part of conducting a research study was formulating your research question. That was the part of the project that took a lot of time; a lot of back and forth as having the right research question will more or less dictate the outcome of your project. Once you're confident th...

FIELD POST #2: Virtual Meeting with the Mentees   Last Friday, 03/13, I had a facetime meeting with Adi and Deborah. This was the first time I had spoken with Adi after meeting him at the YARI convening meeting. Prior to this, we've been exchanging emails back and forth discussing about updates regarding their research question as well as deliverables. They're very quick to respond to emails which is good. Adi and Deborah seem to have a good working relationship which makes communication easier. In some way, they also know what they want for their project and it's very refreshing just getting to know them as they talk about their past experiences and why they want to do their chosen topic. We spent some time discussing about how to refine their research question. But I think bulk of the time was spent about us exchanging ideas (or me listening to them) on what research methodologies they want to use for their research. They talked ...