“Is there a bubble to burst?”-college students’ spatial perception of campus and the city, a case study of rhodes college in memphis, TN

Yu, Shaolu; Bryant, Madalyn T.; Messmer, Emily; Tsagronis, Sophia; Link, Sarah

doi:10.1080/02723638.2018.1481602

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“…Termed the "bubble" by students at Saint Louis University, the sphere of the campus is both physically and symbolically bounded. This understanding of college campuses' spatiality and students' relationship to it corresponds with a small literature on the topic (see Yu et al 2018). It also connects to broader literatures on placemaking and how students see themselves existing in a broader urban context (Hopkins 2011;Andersson, Sadgrove, and Valentine 2012;Holton and Riley 2013;Holton 2015Holton , 2016Yu et al 2018).…”

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confidence: 56%

A Semi-Structured Approach to Sketch Mapping and Qualitative GIS

Prener¹

2020

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Sketch mapping provides an intuitive means for collecting respondents’ impressions about space and place alongside qualitative data collection approaches. However, the data collected are often challenging to work with, particularly with digitization and visualization. After reviewing these challenges, this article introduces a “semi-structured” approach to sketch map data collection, digitization, and analysis as well as an open source software package, “qualmap,” that implements tools for digitizing these data in the programming language R. This approach retains the cartographically accurate base maps used in other sketch map research. However, it superimposes an areal unit of the researchers’ choice to aid in digitization and analysis. This use of a standard areal unit opens up additional cartographic and analytic possibilities with sketch map data. After describing this approach and the accompanying software, this article illustrates its applicability with a sample project that analyzes perceptions of space collected from a convenience sample of college students. The resulting maps’ clustering identifies the presence of a “bubble” around their campus that captures much of the travel activity students engage in every week. These data are paired with crime data, which illustrates possible mixed methods extensions of this “semi-structured” approach to sketch mapping.

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A Semi-Structured Approach to Sketch Mapping and Qualitative GIS

Prener¹

2020

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“…Developed further, this approach could be useful for collecting responses to natural settings and public spaces, illuminating how places evoke feelings of anxiousness, calmness, or relaxation (see Bhattacharya et al, 2019; Evans & Jones, 2011; Holton & Riley, 2014; Price, Jewitt, & Sakr, 2016; Spinney, 2015; Yu, Bryant, Messmer, Tsagronis, & Link, 2018). Exploring relationships between indoor/outdoor spaces and mental/physical health is an especially understudied area that would benefit from further investigation (Mennis, Mason, & Ambrus, 2018; Scully, Vernez Moudon, Hurvitz, Aggarwal, & Drewnowski, 2017; Thornton, Pearce, & Kavanagh, 2011).…”

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Can mobile methods bridge psychology and place-based research?

Versey¹

2022

Qualitative Psychology

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While place-based methods are increasingly being used to explore why place matters for health, how places matters for mental health and psychological wellness is less understood. Overall, approaches that consider community, environmental, and neighborhood-level factors have been taken up to a lesser extent by psychologists. Yet methods that situate human behavior within a spatial context have the potential to expand psychological and interdisciplinary inquiry aimed at improving mental and cognitive health. This article presents a brief overview of one type of mobile method, the go-along walk, that can be used with a variety of technologies and complementary methods to better understand how individuals respond to places and environmental stimuli, including place-based exposures. Implications for broadening the range of research questions and translational applications are discussed.

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“…It has been used in studies of schools (McGregor, 2003). It has already had some applications to exploring campus experience (Gieseking, 2013;Gourlay and Oliver, 2018;Yu et al, 2018). It enables the researcher to capture a sense of participants' perception of a physical space, and its relation to their own identity.…”

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Mapping the campus learning landscape

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Burnham

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Pedagogy, Culture & Society

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Despite its practical and symbolic importance, the role of space in higher education remains underresearched. This study develops an understanding of student experience of the campus as a learning landscape. It is based on 28 participatory walking interviews with students, including the hand drawing of a campus map. Participants tended to see learning as about individual study or working alongside others, and rarely mentioned lectures. The choice of space to study was often shaped by convenience, and appeared to be somewhat static and habitual. There was a lack of exploration and only a limited sense of the benefit of fitting the learning task to the space. Yet students felt a sense of ownership and safety on campus. They actively used the characteristics of space to manage their own attention through studying where there were visible cues to study and controlling distraction.

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“Is there a bubble to burst?”-college students’ spatial perception of campus and the city, a case study of rhodes college in memphis, TN

Cited by 16 publications

References 58 publications

A Semi-Structured Approach to Sketch Mapping and Qualitative GIS

A Semi-Structured Approach to Sketch Mapping and Qualitative GIS

Can mobile methods bridge psychology and place-based research?

Mapping the campus learning landscape

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