GCOP 200- Research Proposal
WORKING TITLE (15 words maximum)
Living in the life of someone with a mental health illness
How can safe spaces be beneficial to someone suffering with a mental health illness?
OPTION 1 ( - )
AIMS OF YOUR RESEARCH:
• What is environmental portraiture?
• What is the importance of location within portraiture?
• Are safe spaces important to someone with a mental health illness?
• What beneficial impact can having a safe space have on someone with a mental health illness?
What question(s) will your study hope to answer and how does that relate to your practice?
RESEARCH SOURCES:
What secondary source material have you sourced to date?
(Include bibliography – Harvard style)
Alexander-Passe, N. 2015. Dyslexia and Mental Health. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Calman, S. 2016. Cheer Up Love. UK: Two Roads.
Johnstone, M. 2007. I had a black dog. UK: Constable & Robinson Ltd.
Sacks, O. 1985. The man who mistook his wife for a hat. London: Gerald Duckworth & co.Ltd
What primary research do you need to undertake?
What else do you think you will need and how will you go about acquiring it? (e.g. interviews, visits, exhibitions, seminars and conferences)
• Interviews with individual’s experiencing a mental health illness- I will get in contact with counselling groups, support groups etc.
• Interview and photograph individuals with a mental health illness- I will need to get in touch with individuals, including groups that I am a part of and speak to different communities e.g. support groups.
• Throughout this project I will also need to attend some exhibitions- In order to do this, I will be required to have a look online and see the dates and places for different exhibitions that are coming up, I may also be required to travel during this project in order to attend exhibitions, this will require time, planning and organisation.
PLAN:
A brief general indication of where your research needs to go from this point onwards.
• Write notes about the books which I have taken out, in order to further my research
• Create a survey and think of the questions that I want to include within it, that will then be shared with individuals within the college, and also a site called ‘shared in Plymouth’.
• Create a draft plan of what I want my essay to look like and what I want to include.
• Carry out further research into what artists relate to the work that I will be creating.
• Send out emails to different groups, e.g. counselling groups, in order to speak with individuals with a mental health illness.
• Organise interviews with individuals with or that have experienced a mental health illness
Signed: Jasmine Walker-Lawton
Student name: Jasmine
Date: 21/02/2019