Junk "Food" Experience: How it Affected Me in a Short Space of Time
We tend to neglect the value of personal experiences when exploring societal questions. Such subjectivity is often regarded as bias or prejudice. While it is essential to remain objective when providing good quality research, it is also important to remind ourselves that we are humans after all and not robots. French philosopher, Paul Ricoeur reminds us that: ‘Understanding is ( … ) no longer a mode of knowledge but a mode of being which exists through understanding’. That is to say, as individuals, we gain understanding through our own personal experiences.