Interview with Helen Scott, author of Using Grounded Theory: How to Develop Theory for Managed Change
Helen Scott, author of Using Grounded Theory: How to Develop Theory for Managed Change recommends a fab collection of books! Before jumping into the interview, please check out Helen's book:
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Using Grounded Theory: How to Develop Theory for Managed Change
Researchers using the grounded theory research method tend to want to understand what is going on for a group of people in an area of interest and often seek to provide practical recommendations for targeted and impactful change. 'Using grounded theory' offers step by step guidance on generating grounded theory using qualitative data and is enriched by the many examples of Dr Helen Scott's mentees and peers who share their strategies for addressing common challenges of doing grounded theory.
Popular with interpretivist, critical realist and post positivist researchers, the grounded theory research methodology is used in psychology, healthcare, business, management and leadership, education, sociology, and this book will be valuable for researchers and teachers in qualitative research.
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Q. Do you have a favourite smart thinking book (and why that book)?
Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters by David Hockney. Description from Bookshop.org: (All links earn commission from purchases. Prices accurate at time of writing)
David Hockney’s Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the lost techniques of the Old Masters in which he showed me a new way to appreciate drawings and paintings from the 1300s to early 1900s. Hockney’s interest was piqued when he noticed a set of pencil drawn portraits that were very small, very accurate and produced in a very short time frame, and wondered how the artist had achieved this. To find out he generated data with great creativity and skill and analysed this data to propose a new way of understanding how artists discovered and applied new techniques to create their artworks. As a qualitative researcher Hockney’s work was inspirational, and as an art gallery visitor, I now take a mirror with me in my pocket.
Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters
Secret Knowledge created a sensation when it was first published. David Hockney’s enthralling story of how some of the great works of Western art were created with the help of mirrors and lenses and how the optical look came to dominate painting attracted major media attention around the world and generated intense debate in the fields of science and art history. Now in this expanded edition, Hockney takes his thesis even further, revealing for the first time new and exciting discoveries.
Hockney's voyage of discovery began when he became gripped by a desire to find out how the artists of the past had managed to depict the world around them so accurately and vividly. As a painter faced with similar technical problems, he asked himself: 'How did they do this?' For the next two years, he sacrificed his own time as an artist to follow this mystery trail, obsessively tracking down the hidden secrets of the Old Masters. As news of his controversial investigations spread, he enlisted the support of scientists and art historians worldwide.
In Secret Knowledge, Hockney recounts the story of his quest as it unfolded. He explains how he uncovered piece after piece of scientific and visual evidence, each one yielding further revelations about the past. With the benefit of his painter's eye, he examines the major works of art history and reveals the truth of how artists such as Caravaggio, Velazquez, van Eyck, Holbein and Ingres used mirrors and lenses to help them create their famous masterpieces. For this new edition, Hockney demonstrates, with the aid of drawings, paintings and photographs of his own experiments, how Renaissance artists used mirrors and lenses to develop perspective and chiaroscuro - radically challenging our view of how these two foundations of Western art were established.
Hundreds of paintings and drawings - among them the best-known and best-loved works in the history of Western art - are reproduced and accompanied by Hockney's infectious and enthusiastic descriptions. His own photographs and drawings illustrate the various methods used by past artists to capture accurate likenesses, and present the results they would have achieved. In addition, extracts from the many historical and modern documents that he uncovered offer further intriguing evidence, while correspondence between himself and an array of international experts provides an exciting account of the remarkable story as it happened.
Secret Knowledge is not just about the lost techniques of the Old Masters. It is also about how we see, treat and make images in an age of computer manipulation. Taking nothing for granted, questioning received ideas and practice, Hockney opens our eyes to the way we perceive and represent the world – a privileged insight into the history of art by an outstandingly prolific and original artist.
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Bookshop.org US $55.80
Blackwells £30.00
Waterstones £30.00
Q. What's the most recent smart thinking book you've read (and how would you rate it)?
Gardener's Guide to Soil: Establishing healthy soil, for healthy plants by Susie Holmes, Neil Bragg. Description from Bookshop.org: (All links earn commission from purchases. Prices accurate at time of writing)
A Gardener’s Guide to Soil: Establishing healthy soil for healthy plants by soil scientists Susie Holmes and Neil Bragg. Studying and working on the fringes of UK agriculture in the 1980s and 90s, I witnessed what I came to think of as the plundering of nature in crop production. Now I understand that soil is arguably the world’s most precious resource and needs nurturing. This book shows me how I can make a difference in my tiny pocket garden.
Gardener's Guide to Soil: Establishing healthy soil, for healthy plants
The definitive work on the subject of oil and a major contribution to understanding our century, The Prize is a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement -- and great importance.
The struggle for wealth and power that has surrounded oil for decades continues to shake the world economy, dictate the outcome of wars, and transform the destiny of men and nations. The Prize is as much a history of the twentieth century as of the oil industry itself. The canvas of this history is enormous -- from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and Operation Desert Storm. The cast extends from wildcatters and rogues to oil tycoons, and from Winston Churchill and Ibn Saud to George Bush and Saddam Hussein.
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Bookshop.org UK £15.20
Bookshop.org US $23.24
Blackwells £16.00
Waterstones £16.00
Q. Do you have a favourite childhood book?
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. Description from Bookshop.org: (All links earn commission from purchases. Prices accurate at time of writing)
No. I have several… Black Beauty, Paddington, Aesop’s Fables. Also any book by Pat Smythe and the Pullien-Thompson sisters, all of which celebrate and encourage the autonomy of young people.
Black Beauty
Black Beauty is a handsome, sweet-tempered colt with a strong spirit. As a young colt he is free to gallop in the fresh green meadows with his beloved mother, Duchess, and their kind master. But when his owners are forced to sell him, Black Beauty goes from a life of comfort and kindness to one of hard labour and cruelty. Bravely he works as hard as he can, suffering at the hands of men who treat animals badly. But Black Beauty has an unbreakable spirit and will, and is determined to survive...
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Bookshop.org UK £14.24
Bookshop.org US $15.80
Blackwells £14.99
Waterstones £14.99
Q. Do you prefer reading on paper, Kindle or listening to an audiobook?
Listening to an audiobook. Reading generally requires keeping still and there is so much that I want to do in a day. The upside is that my dog gets longer walks when the book is really gripping. The downside is that for the more complicated books I need a character list!
Q. Do you have a favourite bookshop (and why that shop)?
Petworth Bookshop
Petworth Bookshop, UK. The people are super-helpful and the owner recommended some excellent reads (e.g. Red Dirt) that I wouldn’t normally notice.
Many thanks to Helen for recommending a fab collection of books! Please don't forget to check out Using Grounded Theory: How to Develop Theory for Managed Change.
Daryl
Image Copyrights: (Using Grounded Theory: How to Develop Theory for Managed Change), Thames & Hudson Ltd (Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters), The Crowood Press Ltd (Gardener's Guide to Soil: Establishing healthy soil, for healthy plants), Penguin Random House Children's UK (Black Beauty).
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