Planning possibly a mixed methods approach. Combining a closed question survey with a follow up interview.

Not sure in research framework.

27th November - Poster Exhibition

3rd of December- Draft of Literature Review Deadline

15th of January- Draft of Methodology Deadline

5th of March- Draft of Analysis/Results Deadline

29th April - Dissertation deadline

Final Submission Date

 29th April 2025

What effects do these portrayals have on self-esteem and identity

Are there other significant factors influencing attitudes towards black hair

Methodology: Qualitative - in-depth interviews

Theoretical framework: possibly critical race theory

Mixed methods: thematic analysis of 3 articles from typical tabloid articles regarding violence against women & interviews to establish if the participants come to the same agreement as the research suggests (lack of sympathy, placing responsibility with the women, not thinking about the wider issue)

2) Is the theoretical framework where our main critical analysis comes in for the literature review, or do we critique throughout?

3) Would it be okay to use subheadings for better flow, such as 'Key Terms and Definitions' or 'Cultural Significance of Protective Hairstyles'?"

This section outlines the literature on the complex processes through which whiteness is negotiated in Britain and some ways in which British Turks can claim whiteness as a category of distinction vis-à-vis the racialisation of Muslims in the British context. In doing so, I demonstrate how constructed articulations of whiteness still continue to underpin dominant

understandings of Britishness and enable the perpetuation of racialised hierarchies of belonging (Garner, 2012). Before infiltrating the literature on varying conceptualisations of whiteness,

Jacobson (1999) argues that whiteness is a very slippery substance, and its very indeterminacy renders it inevitable to attain. Jacobson goes on to state that ‘race’ is also a social convention, not a biological fact. It is a product of the perception of others and contingent upon the circumstances of the moment (Jacobson, 1999, p. 11). This study, therefore, takes ‘whiteness’ not as a totality but as more nuanced and flexible than binary maps of identity (Garner, 2007,

p. 109). Given the centrality of Islamophobia and the image of ‘Muslim’ that is racialised in multiple ways, including appearance and colour in the ‘West’, British Turks may seek to belong to mainstream Britishness due to the privilege that their putative whiteness is assumed to

ensure.

To put it differently, they may wield their race-based understanding to assert their

belonging to Britain. Their putative whiteness can afford them an important advantage in inserting themselves into Britain’s racialised hierarchies.

The research by Miranda Lewis (2005), completed days before the 7/7 bombings in London, demonstrates that ‘the terms ‘race’, immigration, and asylum are often used interchangeably by the British public’ (p. 4). In Lewis’ research, while no one raises issues about white immigration from countries such as Australia or the US, white British people frequently lump

everyone who is not white together into what they feel is an inferior and threatening group (Garner, 2007; Lewis, 2005). To recap briefly, the meanings attached to ‘race’ are always time

and space-specific and part of each national regime. Whiteness is no exception (Garner, 2012, p. 1).

I’m following up on your email from yesterday regarding submitting a first draft of our literature review by the 3rd of December.

Since I haven’t yet received ethical clearance for my research and don’t expect to until early to mid-December, should I proceed with writing the literature review now?

I’d prefer not to spend too much time writing this literature review, especially if there’s a chance the ethics submission might be sent back with requests for changes (or a change to the topic completely).

Thanks :)

I just had a question regarding the number of participants you would advise I have in my research sample.

You initially advised I use 10 participants as at the time I was just going to use focus groups. However, I am now using both focus groups and interviews, so would I be able to use a smaller sample? For example, 8 participants for focus groups, and interviews conducted on 3-4 focus group participants?

Thanks!