The Campus Environment And Campus Life - 1367 Words

Report 4: INTRODUCTION This report is about using reflexive photography to gain an understanding on how students feel about the campus environment and campus life. It is to recreate a similar study made at the University College of Fraser Valley (UCFV) which was used to provide recommendations to the university policymakers regarding the planning and development of the institutions academics and physical environment but we completed this in a much shorter period of time. It will be about how we feel about the Penrhyn Road campus. AIMS We aim to use photography to describe and explore how representing Kingston university, what we like about Kingston University, any improvements that can be made and other issues that came up. We created this research project to understand a visual research method that allows an understanding of how students behave and assign a meaning to the campus environment. 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