Methods:
Dani and I will conduct interviews with Bowdoin students to investigate how socioeconomic status affects access to health. We will interview up to 10 FGLI Bowdoin students and recent graduates to examine how these students grapple with contrasting health paradigms between home environment and the campus environment. Questions we will consider/ask include:
- Do you take care of yourself? What does taking care of yourself look like?
- How have you confronted health differently when/since coming to Bowdoin? (implying a classed understanding of health/healthiness)
- How do these approaches help us understand what we consider healthy?
- How do you navigate/what are your strategies for maintaining health at Bowdoin?
- What health-related practices, if any, do you keep from home?
- Do you go to the gym?
- What is your thought process regarding food when in the dining hall?
- Does the way you approach health here differ from when at home?
Data:
Dani and I will be collecting qualitative data from approximately 10 interviews with Bowdoin students. We will plan to complete these interviews by April 29th. Additionally, we will also review current research investigating intersections between health, wellness, mental health, and nutrition with socioeconomic status. We will depend on quantitative data from this research to help construct our main argument and any significant details from the interviews.