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ELIZABETH ANN CAPEWELL
A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
University of Bath
Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice
School of Management
December 2004
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| CONTENTS | Page |
| PART A: THE OPENING STORIES - (421KB)
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| The Hungerford Massacre: the story that started it all | 6 |
| The Research Story: The story that began my thesis | 9 |
| A map of this thesis and the dialogue between my practice and research | 11 |
| PART B: MY ARTICULATION OF PRACTICE-BASED ACTION RESEARCH - (795KB)
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| The ‘I’ at the Centre of my Action Research | 19 |
| The Roots and Development of my Action Research Practice | 35 |
| Questions of Quality and Integrity in my Action Research | 53 |
| My Action Research Methodology | 69 |
| PART C: MAKING PERSONAL MEANING FROM MY EXPERIENCES - (812KB)
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| Making Sense From My Hungerford Experience | 101 |
| The Trauma Process Map: A personal construction of experience. | 113 |
| The Development of the Model Beyond Myself | 131 |
| Practical Knowing: Learning from the model as I use it | 173 |
| PART D: MAKING PROFESSIONAL MEANING FROM MY EXPERIENCES - (855KB)
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| How I developed the basic concepts of my practice | 185 |
| The management of self | 189 |
| The management of task | 192 |
| The management of context | 226 |
| Revealing the principles underlying my disaster management practice | 241 |
| PART E: A SYNTHESIS OF PRACTICE-BASED ACTION RESEARCH - (550KB)
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| The Omagh Bomb Response: a major cycle of practice-based action research | 253 |
| Stories from the Omagh Bomb Response: Managing self, task and context | 260 |
| A ‘Messy’ Action Research Story: “When a woman spoke for herself…” | 286 |
| PART F: POST-SCRIPT AND NEXT STEPS - (316KB)
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| A reflection: the path I have constructed and where it will go next. | 301 |
| Stop press: disaster work never ends - the latest story as it unfolds… | 309 |
| APPENDICES - (328KB)
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| Hungerford Reflections: Learning and New Questions. | 312 |
| A Menu of Post-Disaster Methods. | 315 |
| REFERENCES - (527KB)
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