Thesis first draft continued

I have now started to draft my thesis and have been using the examples mentioned in the previous post. I have organized my literature using Mendeley  by making sure that all the references included are complete. I created a watch alert in Google Scholar so that I now receive an email whenever a new paper is published in a journal that mentions Actor-Network Theory. The alert only refers to papers published in 2016 and 2017 so all the papers I am accessing are up to date. Some are pre-publications (in press) and some are not accessible to the LSBU library but the majority are accessible and very good sources. I have noticed that many recent papers are of extremely good quality in terms of the writing and also that the disciplinary areas that ANT is being applied to are very broad and very interesting.

These papers are an extremely good source of material for my literature review. I have started writing about the history of organizational change and have come across a number of very good references to old sources going back to the mid-1940’s and 1950’s. These seminal sources are in some cases still relevant to organizational change and many such as Kurt Lewin’s unfreeze, move, re-freeze are still being used and adapted by subsequent research.

I will be working on the following sections shortly, personal motivation, the research site and outline of the thesis. I am going to start the literature review with a review of the student help desk and the innovations that libraries have brought to the development of wider student services in universities.