Today, I spent the morning doing the usual – writing up notes from the journal articles I read yesterday, updating the bog etc.
Last night, I met up with a friend Clive, who is a Professor at a ‘rival’ University in West Yorkshire and an experienced researcher and PhD supervisor. Clive’s subject is more along the lines of ‘hard science’ and engineering, yet the opportunity to meet with someone who did not know what information literacy was provided great opportunity to bounce ideas off him. The evening finished in a traditional English manner—down the Queens Arms in Chapel Allerton for a pint (or two!) of Black Sheep—a great Northern pint.
Certainly, the evening has provided me with a lot to think about, especial with regards my research design. It always amazes me how people from different disciplines have such a different outlook on the paradigms to you hold as certainty, and even insights which I often overlook.
As a addendum, for those of you who do not know what I mean by a Pint of Black Sheep, the pint of traditionally brewed English beer comes from the village of Masham (http://www.yorkshire-dales.com/masham.html). The village has two principle breweries, one Theakstons (http://www.theakstons.co.uk ) home to my favourite ‘Old Peculier’ and the excellent ‘XP’. The Black Sheep brewery (http://www.blacksheepbrewery.com) was formed by Paul Theakston, in the early 1990s after a bitter family spilt of the direction of the Theakstons brewery.
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