Getting to Grips with Bricolage: A Personal Account

Authors

Christopher Wibberley, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityFollow

Abstract

This paper presents a personal account of how a PhD supervisor came to an understanding of an approach to research that was unfamiliar to him. Additionally it addresses the question of what makes the approach, in this case bricolage, an acceptable format for academic work and in particular PhD study. Bricolage is a relatively little used approach to research; therefore, researchers utilizing bricolage as a research design have less exemplary texts to draw on in coming to their own understanding of this approach to research. This paper presents an account of getting to grips with bricolage as a way of undertaking research, of potential interest as an exemplar generally (and specifically in relation to bricolage) to supervisors, examiners and students alike.

Keywords

Bricolage, Research Design, Doctoral Study

Publication Date

6-18-2012

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2012.1760

Recommended APA Citation

Wibberley, C. (2012). Getting to Grips with Bricolage: A Personal Account. The Qualitative Report, 17(25), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2012.1760