BCM 212 asked its cohort to create a research project that explored one aspect of student life, with intentions to deepen our understandings of university. I choose to focus on the balance of work and study for a student. With so many aspects to why students choose to have a job and study, it’s hard to justify a successful outcome in regard to using a broad research topic like work/life balance. Therefore, I intended to focus on the aspect that bad timetabling has an effect on studying students.
Researching this aspect of student life was really important as I personally have found it difficult to achieve my future career goals with such a spread timetable and I really just wanted to see if anyone felt the same. My first intention of this research was to emphasise on the point that condensed timetables could help with job opportunities and commitments for students. More specifically focusing on those who are missing out of internships and jobs in general due to their core subjects or timetable in general being spread out. In turn I found that students are actually more focused on their social commitments and that their timetable restricts them from having a good balance of this. What I believe contributed to this was that students are able to lean off their parents and guardians therefore they are able to stress less on their financial stability. The study also revealed however that there are students who are pressured by their timetable to reduce working hours and reject career opportunities which emphasises the need to have more options for timetables for students in order to give balance to students who are feeling this pressure.
Not only has this project taught me about the research project but it has also broadened my understanding for managing my own research and process it takes to perfect questions and understand ethical methods. When concluding the research project I aimed to create an opinion piece that showcased the findings of my own research with the support of other studies both national and international to emphasise that spread out timetables are creating an imbalance in students’ study and wellbeing.
Until Next Time, Live and Laugh,
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