Research Projects (IRPs and PIPs)
This page is set up to help you get started with your CAFS IRP or Society and Culture PIP.
If you're still not sure about your question, have a look at these "debate topics" [http://www.debate.org/] . They're sure to get you thinking. If you click on the topics, you can see different opinions - not enough to use in your assessment but enough to get you thinking...
Other places to look for ideas are the archives of radio and TV series:
Big Ideas
Insight [http://www.sbs.com.au/news/insight]
Compass [http://www.abc.net.au/compass/pastepisodes.htm]
McCrindle Blog [http://mccrindle.com.au/the-mccrindle-blog] Has infographics - Great if you hate reading in English!
Recent sociological research papers that don't use too much academic language can be found at:
The Centre for Independent Studies [https://www.cis.org.au/publications/policy-papers/what-do-parents-want-australian-childcare-preferences-and-attitudes/] Be aware of an incredibly strong conservative/right wing bias in most papers on this site (read their mission statement). This might be invisible to you because it's the same bias as in most of our media, with "freedom" referring to economic growth, individualism and nationalism rather than left-wing ideas like equality, globalised multiculturalism and and government responsibility. It's still a good site for getting ideas if you're into politics or economics, and you might agrees with ther bias, but the important thing is to know it's biased and look for other perspectives as well.
Spinney Press's Weblinks pages have great (and current!) links to the kinds of sources you should be using for your PIP/IRP. Looking through these links will help you work out what topics interest you.
If you know what you're going to be working on for your PIP / IRP, let me know and I'll make sure there's a page on your topic with links and suggestions for your background/secondary research. Some of these pages have very little because the student I made them for changed their topic, not because I couldn't find any. Please let me know if you need me to add to a page (in class, in the library or using the contact form.
The pages are currently organised into:
1. Family
2. Health
3. Identity
If you're still not sure about your question, have a look at these "debate topics" [http://www.debate.org/] . They're sure to get you thinking. If you click on the topics, you can see different opinions - not enough to use in your assessment but enough to get you thinking...
Other places to look for ideas are the archives of radio and TV series:
Big Ideas
Insight [http://www.sbs.com.au/news/insight]
Compass [http://www.abc.net.au/compass/pastepisodes.htm]
McCrindle Blog [http://mccrindle.com.au/the-mccrindle-blog] Has infographics - Great if you hate reading in English!
Recent sociological research papers that don't use too much academic language can be found at:
The Centre for Independent Studies [https://www.cis.org.au/publications/policy-papers/what-do-parents-want-australian-childcare-preferences-and-attitudes/] Be aware of an incredibly strong conservative/right wing bias in most papers on this site (read their mission statement). This might be invisible to you because it's the same bias as in most of our media, with "freedom" referring to economic growth, individualism and nationalism rather than left-wing ideas like equality, globalised multiculturalism and and government responsibility. It's still a good site for getting ideas if you're into politics or economics, and you might agrees with ther bias, but the important thing is to know it's biased and look for other perspectives as well.
Spinney Press's Weblinks pages have great (and current!) links to the kinds of sources you should be using for your PIP/IRP. Looking through these links will help you work out what topics interest you.
If you know what you're going to be working on for your PIP / IRP, let me know and I'll make sure there's a page on your topic with links and suggestions for your background/secondary research. Some of these pages have very little because the student I made them for changed their topic, not because I couldn't find any. Please let me know if you need me to add to a page (in class, in the library or using the contact form.
The pages are currently organised into:
1. Family
- Abortion
- Divorce
- Domestic Violence
- Family Size
- Foster Care
- GLBTIQ Families
- Marriage
- Parenting
- Race and Families
- Single Parent Families
- Young Carers
2. Health
- Dance Communities
- Drugs
- Fitness
- Overtraining
- Sport and Mental health
- women in sport
- Teen Participation in sport
- Mental Health
- Nutrition and diet
- STDs
3. Identity
- Body image
- Body Modification
- Masculine body image
- Disability
- Deaf community (see society)
- Gender roles
- women in comedy
- women in sport (See Fitness above)
- toxic masculinity
- LGBTIQA+ Issues
- Attitudes to LGBTQI
- Transgender Issues
- GLTBIQA+ representation in film
- Gender construction
- Hair colour (ok topic for an IRP but really not enough for a good PIP)
- Morality - the representation of evil
- Racial Identity
- Aboriginal issues
- Asian Australians
- Ethnicity for Sale
- Polynesian identities
- Advertising
- Gender in media
- Animal Welfare
- Beauty
- Colonisation
- Indigenous Languages
- Deaf Community
- Death
- Education
- Creative education
- Dance community
- International students
- Chinese education
- Employment
- Career Aspirations
- Women in the workplace
- Gender at work
- Fashion
- Feminism / Postfeminism
- women and work
- Migration
- - Refugees
- Ex-Yugoslavian migration experiences
- Pakistani/Indian relationships in Auistralia
- Morality
- Animal welfare
- Relationships
- Friendships
- Bullying
- Peer Pressure/conformity
- Racism
- Reality TV
- religion
- atheism
- religious openness
- swearing
- Violence
- Morality
- Gaming
- Social Media Habits
- Online Identities
- Language and social Media/ communication
- Empathy
- Sexting