Project update

I undertook a group investigation about 'Who Belongs to Glasgow?'.

This investigation was handed in to Susan Traynor today and asked various questions such as;

1. Who belongs to Glasgow?
2. The origins of poeple from Glasgow.
3. The impact of people who stay in Glasgow.
4. What input or contribution do people have on Glasgow's current society.

This report concluded that Glasgow is a multicultual society that belongs to ethnic groups from a variety of backgrounds. The majority of people we researched and the information obtained believed that this current environment was positive although some people commented on some negative aspects. Glasgow, I believe, now benefits from the contribution of a vast number of cultures from around the World.

Project

Hello. My name is John Hevern and I am part of the Access Social Science class. I am part of a group consisting of Stuart, Lorraine (there were others who seem to have dropped out).

We are conducting research on 'Who Belongs to Glasgow?'. This is based on Glaswegiens and other cultures and ethnic groups who stay in this city.

Hello its Eddie again this post is to tell you how me and the group I got on with research the changing roles in fatherhood. We obtained secondary research from the interent, websites like apa.org which gave good insight to the role the father has had through time. We also found out about the factors which have effected the role of the father like more women going to work, new laws for seperated parents and father being able to take time of work when their baby is born. We also made a questionnaire for the public asking about the experiences they have had with their father such as how much time they spend with them and what he does to help in the house. The older people we asked said their father didnt do that much to help with chores ect, and their mother was left with most of the responsibilities. However the younger people ages 18-25 said their father done more in the house, spend more time with them and went to events like parents meetings at school. All this research was combined to write a report and create a power point presentation presenting our findings on the topic. We concluded that the role of the father has changed from 40 years ago, were he was expected to be the breadwinner of the family and had no time to spend time with their children. Now more fathers are taking part in the development of their children, with the wife now working and being giving time of work its now also easier for a father to do so.

Hello my name is Eddie and I'm part of a group with Scott Walker and Scott Maclure, we were researching the changing roles in fatherhood. We done this by collecting secondary research from websites and books to do with economic factors and social changes which have affected the role of the father. We also made a questionnaire targeted at different age groups both male and female to find out their experiences with their father. We used the information we found to write a report.

Hello again, this post is to tell you how I and the group I got on with research the changing roles in fatherhood. We obtained secondary research from the interent, websites like apa.org which gave good insight to the role the father has had through time. We also found out about the factors which have effected the role of the father like more women going to work, new laws for seperated parents and father being able to take time of work when their baby is born. We also made a questionnaire for the public asking about the experiences they have had with their father such as how much time they spend with them and what he does to help in the house. The older people we asked said their father didnt do that much to help with chores ect, and their mother was left with most of the responsibilities. However the younger people ages 18-25 said their father done more in the house, spend more time with them and went to events like parents meetings at school. All this research was combined to write a report and create a power point presentation presenting our findings on the topic. We concluded that the role of the father has changed from 40 years ago, were he was expected to be the breadwinner of the family and had no time to spend time with their children. Now more fathers are taking part in the development of their children, with the wife now working and being giving time of work its now also easier for a father to do so.

changing roles of fatherhood

hi my name is scott walker our group was set the task of finding out wether the role of a father had changed over the years. Ourgroup of 3 was Eddie Mckenna Scott Maclure and myself.
1st we were set the task of finding secondary information using only the internet. we searched for information on sites such as "fathers for justice" and 2 the role of a father"
We then had to put together a presentation and show our findings to the class.
Our findings from this research showed that there was little information that we could gather findings from. Further information gathered from our primary investigation and looking more closly at our 1st findings, showed this was not the case.
The second part of the project was to make up questionaires and go out into town and ask people on the streets to fill out our questionaires. We asked males and females aged from 18-45 questions ranging from "does thier father do household chores" to "does thier father spend time with them and how often".
Our finding showed a few significant changes between the 2 age groups we asked.
next we set out to find why there was a change and to present our finding in a presentation like before.

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Hello my name is Scott and I'm part of a group with Scott Walker and Eddie, we were researching the changing roles in fatherhood. We done this by collecting secondary research from websites and books to do with economic factors and social changes which have affected the role of the father. We also made a questionnaire targeted at different age groups both male and female to find out their experiences with their father. We used the information we found to write a report.

Hello again my name is Stuart. As of before i am still doing my social science project report with lorraine, john and jade. In this report we are covering multicultural glasgow. In my part of the report i am covering sectarianism in Glasgow. In this i found some really interesting fact about sectarianism. mainly in my report i gave a brief description to what sectarianism actually is and what the effects were. The main part of my report was what preventions have been put in place to stop sectarian behaviour all together. I then linked all this together with my primarry research to what information i had found in the questionnaire that the group made for the members of the public to fill out mainly people from the college from a different efnicity not just white scottish. In my secondary information the website i used was mainly bbc.co.uk and wikipedia.co.uk but i did find some usefull information from the rangers and celtic website aswell. Overall i believe that my project was a success but i do believe i could have changes some of the questions on the questionnaire to suit sectarianism a bit better.

Hi everyone, as i previously mentioned my group and i are doing a project which is,
"Does Poverty affect Education?"
As i posted on my previous blog we were to complete an individual report using primary research in the form of a questionnaire. Which we done and we were to include secondary research that we gathered from the intrenet aswell. I have completed my report and handed it in to tutor Susan Traynor.
The next thing myself and my group need to do is a group presentation of our findings. We are to present this to our class and tutor to show we have an understanding of our project, which i think we all do. In our presentation we are to bring together and use all of our findings and make a powerpoint presentation which answers our Project question,
"Does Poverty affect Education"
I think that yes, yes it does!
Thank you for reading.

 Hello there everyone,



As previously i explained what i am researching about, in have done the primary research which i had to conduct a survey and to find out what effects the background, social issue and where people come from. As going to the city centre the group with me have got various replies and put them in a bar chart. This provided us with the answers we expected. We have got people saying they come from a background where there is peace and quiet and considering themselves as working class and few are in education or returned to education. After the questionnaires we put them into a bar chart and then wrote our individual reports on 'how poverty affects education' which i managed to finish on time before the deadline which is on 31st May. Although i have finished the project report on 'How poverty affects education', i shall be making a PowerPoint about it for a presentation which is due on 6th June.  As for the secondary research I and Jennifer have tried to find out information from, books and magazines but unfortunately we didn't find anything and started to get information on the internet and journal which Mark was doing. We found the information we needed and concluded it in our reports.

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Hello everyone ,just to up date on our project . To carry further ivestigation in to Scotlands unhealty lifestyle and focusing particulary on the Glasgow district ,as a group of four this being Jason,Coleen,Murrey and my self., we produced a questionnere. 45 questionnaires were issuded to students at Stow College in April 2011 The Questionnaire asked, what your postcode is,your age,how do you rate your life style ,the amount of alcohol if you drank,if you smoked and what sort of food you ate. Having gathered all the information ,Murrey was able to calculate all the numbers and put them in to percentages, many thanks to Murrey. Our primary research was obtained from the internet where information was gathered as to the causes and concerns of Scotlands unhealthy lifestyle, information was also gained through newspaper articles .We are now the stage where we have been asked to write a report on our topic . Good luck to everyone from Chini.

hi everyone,
I am studying Access Social Sciences, part of this course is a class called Project. My project along with my group members, Mark Bird and Ayesha Ahmed is,
'How Poverty affects Education. And if it does.'
At the moment we have our secondary and primary research, now we have to coalate them into an individual report. The aim is to see if poverty factors into poor education and if the more well off you are, the better you do.
Thanks for reading.

Hello there everyone,

I am currently studying Access Social Science.I am in a group of 3 which consists Jennifer Irwin, Mark Bird and myself. As we have done our secondary research, we are now doing primary research. Our aim of this study is 'how poverty affects education'. By doing this study we will be conducting a questionnaire to find out what effects of background, social issue and where people come from which we will be going to the city centre, and then put them into a bar graph which we successfully have done. Now we have started to write our reports which is due on 31st May.

hello , the blog update is to tell you the progress of my report project. Basically our topic was multicultural Glasgow and our group made up a questionaire for people to fill out. Mostly all of the questionaires were positive but some wernt and i am using the negative ones and link it to sectarianism in Glasgow. I will use information from the questionaires and link it to the secondary information that i found previously. In the report i will use pie charts and some graphs to back up my information.

Project - Primary Research

Hi I am writing this blog on behalf of my Project group; Scottish Parliament.
This group consists of 4 people; Amy Cowan, Ashleigh Hynes, John Cruickshank, and Joanna Watt. Having done our secondary research we are now doing our primary research.
The aim of our study is to see how people use their vote in Scotland. We will do this by going into the city centre and conducting a questionaire consisting of yes or no answers. We will then record our findings in a pie chart.
That is all.

Welcome to our Blog

This is the Access Social Science blog. We are going to be blogging as a class about our Research Projects and the processes involved in undertaking research in the Social Sciences.

Each group will post an introduction and short overview of their topic, and we will then post updates over the next few months as the research takes place.