Sorry Michael. This really was a question of interest rather than
accusation. I have just received my MA reading list. The books recommended
are a million miles from anything local and I am obviously going to suffer
severe culture shock. I really don't understand the process whereby the
local research becomes accepted at a professional level and I am looking
forward to finding this out over the next 3 years. The way you plan to
present your results sounds very fair to me.
Has the Internet influenced the way you would look at presenting the
results of the research?
Jane Knight
At 09:42 27/12/01 -0500, you wrote:
>We are actually looking at a range of possibilities concerning the final
>analysis of the Swing project. These include a conference in 2003 dedicated
>to protest crime where I hope that some of the researchers will present
>papers. We are also exploring the possibilities of the society publishing
>some occasional papers, ideally written by individual researchers, etc.
>
> From my point of view the first post project step will be to publish our
>findings on the Internet in the form of a comprehensive database which will
>show geographical location of each incident together with information
>concerning both victim and protester. This will be for the benefit of local
>historians, family historians, etc. The next step will be to undertake in
>depth analysis of the data, looking at a variety of parameters.
>
>When I agreed to be involved as academic adviser I did so with the part time
>researchers in mind. They will be performing the basic research for me to
>analyse — this project is not about me and my historical advancement, but
>about a gap in existing knowledge which the FACHRS can fill. I rather resent
>the suggestion that I will be taking advantage of the researchers' work. I
>always treat people in the way that I would like to be treated!
>
>Michael Holland
Jane
That passed so may this.
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