Sustainability in the Mining Industry Research 2022

Running Head: Reflective journal
Reflective journal

Reflective journal
Contents
1. My personal contribution to the topic selection, problem definition, research question, writing
of topic approval submission, and team charter. How I experienced this and what I learnt from it.
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2. My personal contribution to the literature review report, i.e. search process, summarizing of
relevant articles, designing the outline/argument/structure of the literature review, writing up the
literature review. How I experienced this and what I learnt from it................................................4
3. My personal contribution to the research methodology report, i.e. my role in discussions about
methods, sampling, questionnaire design, data collection, analysis and interpretation. How I
experienced this and what I learnt from it.......................................................................................5
4. My reflections on the research experience, insights I gained, and any issues, struggles,
challenges, synergies I experienced, individually and in the teamwork..........................................6
5. My statement indicating which sections of this research project I personally wrote and what
you learned from this experience.....................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................8
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Reflective journal
1. My personal contribution to the topic selection, problem definition, research
question, writing of topic approval submission, and team charter. How I
experienced this and what I learnt from it.
I have recently completed my business research on the evaluation of the trends of
production sustainability in the Mining Industry of Australia. I have chosen the topic as this
mining industry in recent times has become one of the major industries in Australia and the
production trends and sustainability in this industry is changing toward the economy of the
country. Consideration of the environmental factors and their management has also become an
indispensable element in the mining industry. I have experienced that, there are very few
researches that have been carried out on the evaluation of the sustainability and production trends
in the mining industry in this country. Hence, I felt the requirement of further research on this
topic for gaining knowledge on the subject. I have identified several mining organizations in the
country and also evidenced that there is an alarming increase in the rate of metal and mining
extractions from the year 2011 to 2016 (Lodhia and Martin, 2014).
During the completion of the project, I have defined the problem regarding the challenges
that are faced due to the presence of barriers in the pathway of innovation in the mining
procedures. Reduction of waste materials and emission intensity is among the major problems
that have been identified in the mining sector of Australia (Bayari, 2016). For framing the
research question I have greatly depended on the research aims and general and specific research
objectives. During the process of framing the research aims, objectives, questions and I have
faced several difficulties that were easily solved with the support of my teachers. With the help
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