[Patina] Re: questions about the field trial [summary]

[Frankland T.]

Sounds good to me! With Emilie I have three PhD students confirmed for 3 on Monday, still waiting on the other two to reply.

Tom.

From: patina-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:patina-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Earl G.P.
Sent: 09 March 2011 15:14
To: Southampton-specific mailing list for PATINA project
Subject: [Patina] Re: questions about the field trial [summary]

That looks perfect. All the bases covered.

Cheers,

G

From: patina-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:patina-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Enrico Costanza
Sent: 09 March 2011 14:44
To: Southampton-specific mailing list for PATINA project
Subject: [Patina] Re: questions about the field trial [summary]

Hello.

So I will try to summarize, please tell me if I am missing or misunderstanding something.

The most likely target population is master students in osteo-archaeology, because of the numbers.

PhD students may also be somehow involved, but their work is quite specific, and unlikely to involve shared finds.

For practical reasons, at this stage it's easier for us to interview PhD students. We do not need to interview them all in one group, we may talk with one or few of them at the time (depending on their availability and their area of work?). Tom and Angeliki are arranging that.

I think it would be useful for the interviews to address the following (not necessarily in this order):

 *   their experience on the master final projects (if they are alumni), and in particular:
    *   use of the labs
    *   use of notes
    *   do they have an initial phase where they collect a lot of data that they analyse later? or is it an ongoing collect and analyse cycle?
    *   how do they choose which finds to work on?
    *   how many finds do master students normally work on during their project? how many are references?
    *   topic assignment, and shared resources (i.e. how many people work on similar topics? do they interact? in what way?)
 *   their use of the labs, finds and notes, as PhD students (just to confirm that they would not be good candidates for part 1 of the study), in particular:
    *   what do they do in the labs?
    *   how many finds to they work on? how do they choose them?
 *   the (possible) relation between their work and the work of the master students (e.g. do they work on similar or sub-topics?), this will inform us about the opportunity to involve them in part 2 of the study
(again, please feel free to add or edit this list!)

I understand that we have digital archives on ceramics (still need to discuss with Leif about that) -- is there anything on bones?

Once we get more clear ideas about the questions above, we should be able to define how we would ideally like to involve students in the study. Then, the next step should be to look into what is realistic and practical issues related to that, by talking to academics, through Graeme.

Thanks,
Enrico

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School of Electronics and Computer Science

University of Southampton, UK, SO17 1BJ



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