Core Podcast

Lead by Malé Luján Escalante

Research Methods in postgraduate studies are often the most boring and most dreaded classes, and they shouldn’t be!!

We created Core Podcast Series to support a program of independent studies, for students to get out of lecture theatres and online lectures. CORE invites to listen, read and reflect on their own time.

Each Core Episode has a corresponding Activity Log, with a reading list carefully curated to include seminal but also contemporary texts, to include resources for different ways of knowing and from authors of different genders and cultural backgrounds. At UAL:LCC the series had seminar companions, where students bring questions to a panel of design researchers. There are no presentations, the seminars aim to show the broadness of Design Research and its engagements across disciplines, domains and sectors.

CORE's main objective is to demystify big words in Research Methodology (ontology, epistemology, axiology, positionality), that put off students with no research background or with research backgrounds in other disciplines, or students for whom English is a second language. By making Research Methodology language more accessible, CORE hopes to become a springboard for students to jump into research by themselves. More importantly, CORE pumps to go beyond big words into conversations that matter: how research affects and is affected by power.