{"id":10362,"date":"2026-04-22T15:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobgriffithsphoto.uk\/?p=10362"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:49:13","slug":"semester-1-week-3-dissertation-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobgriffithsphoto.uk\/?p=10362","title":{"rendered":"Semester 1 Week 3 – Dissertation Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After looking back through my notes, calendar entries, work commitments, photo library and even all of my messaging apps I just could not work out what I had been doing for the third week in semester 1 of my Level 6 part one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It came up as I was working through my blog (this blog you’re reading) to pull out the relevant sessions for a quick link document that will be submitted. Where was this week in the blog? Where were my scribblings in the OneNote app? Nothing. I looked in the Canvas App where all of our modules are planned and the assignments are submitted to.I found this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yet nothing directly referencing this, and when I talked to Gavin about this today (22nd April 2025) he suggested that it might be related to the Tuesday session rather than the Wednesday. That’s right, last year I was attending on Tuesdays and then picking up the work for the following Wednesday too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did this in the canvas app and the following popped up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thinking about this, it was a two week set of tutorials with half of us meeting the tutor on Wk3 and half meeting him in Wk4. I remembered an email that had the lists of students so went back to the day or two before the Tuesday and found it. I was having my review and dissertation tutorial in Semester 1 Week 4 and that is documented in my blog already.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I know I was in Uni on the 7th October and I was researching for my dissertation, so where did I research? Thats correct, the library of course. If I did any research I would have documented in my OneNote so I go and look in the section called Dissertation Rseaerch and there it is. My notes from the day. So here they are, I present to you a very small amount of research that contains Wikipedia references (bleurgh) and I would have dug further into the information as there are no references to Wikipedia in my degree dissertation, as I have been advised that this is not always a solid source for information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dissertation Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

7th October 2025 in Wolves Library<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DISSERTATION RESEARCH<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grief and Photography – Not just loss of persons but items, places, buildings etc\u2026 Link it to the Shirehall and other older buildings that I’ve photographed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wolfgang Tillmans – https:\/\/www.tillmans.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iain Sinclair – https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iain_Sinclair<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

London Orbital Film<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paradise Lost: Birmingham\u2019s Central Library and the Battle over Brutalism<\/a><\/blockquote>