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Research Methodology and Academic Writing (RMAW)

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Course Type Course Code No. Of Credits
Foundation Core HRM3HS203 2

Aims and Objectives:

This course intends to familiarise doctoral students with the significant philosophical and methodological issues in producing valid knowledge in heritage management studies. It will focus on the transmission of classical knowledge systems based on various historiographical themes and narratives around the heritage, which will be beneficial in implementing and crystallizing research ideas in the minds of scholars. It focuses on the nature of heritage management research in the context of traditional and scientific knowledge and research paradigms and how these interact with the research process.

By highlighting the methodological and theoretical assumptions of different approaches to research in heritage studies, the course will help participants understand the various perspectives of reality, how our knowledge of reality shapes our interpretation of heritage, and how the heritage has been used for centuries in cultural, social and national identity and narratives. The research paradigm shapes the choice of methodology and influences the research process and outcomes. Understanding the research paradigms will teach the researchers the correct values to adopt the most appropriate data collection and analysis method.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understanding the research methods in heritage studies
  • Analysis and review of primary literature and sources 
  • Evaluation of historiographical models from different cultures
  • Developing skills in critical writing about policy documents, book reviews, etc.
  • Knowledge about building upon research arguments in thesis writing.
  • Knowledge of Classical case studies

Modules:

  • Module 2: Writing the past: A Historiographical studies
  • Module 1: Introduction to Research Methodology in Heritage Studies
  • Module 3. Academic Writings in Heritage Studies.

Reading List:

  • Harrison, Rodney, Heritage: critical approaches, Milton Park, Abingdon, Routledge, 2013 (s. 95–113)
  • Smith, Laurajane, (2006) Uses of heritage, New York, Routledge,
  • Erica Avrami (2019) Values in Heritage Management: Emerging Approaches and Research Directions, GCI, New York
  • Issues in Heritage Management Series, Routledge
  • One World Archaeology Series, by World Archaeological Congress, Springer
  • Bhabha, Homi K.,  (1994) The location of culture, London, Routledge, 1994.
  • Denzin, Norman K.; Lincoln, Yvonna S., The SAGE handbook of qualitative research, 4., [rewritten and enlarged] ed., Thousand Oaks, SAGE, cop. 2011
  • Crotty, M. (1998). The Foundations of Social Research- meaning and perspective in the research process, Sage Publications.
  • Fay, B. (1996). Contemporary philosophy of social science: A multicultural approach (Vol. 1). Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Bhabha, Homi K.,  (1994) The location of culture, London, Routledge, 1994.
  • Winter, Tim,  (2014) Heritage studies and the privileging of theory, International Journal of Heritage Studies: vol.  20, no. 5, pp. 556–572.
  • Napier, C. J. (2020). Historiography. In The Routledge Companion to Accounting History (pp. 32-53). Routledge.
  • Thapar, R. (Ed.). (1995). Recent perspectives of early Indian history.
  • Beteille, A. (1998). The Indian heritage heritage sociological perspective. The Indian human heritage, 87.
  • Ray, H. P. (Ed.). (2018). Decolonizing heritage in South Asia: the global, the national and the transnational. Taylor & Francis.
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