Practical Research: Writing research proposals
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Practical Research: Writing research proposals
Hannah JonesSO914 week 9 2013/14
Writing a research proposal
• Research design• Presentation and language• Resourcing, budgeting and timetabling• Ethics• Research impact and dissemination• Working with partners
Research design
• Research field• Research questions• Aims• Objectives• Methodology• Methods• Analysis• Dissemination
Presentation and language
• Clarity• Originality, ‘innovation’, excitement• Gaps in the existing research• Feasibility (resources, money, time, people)• Your skills and track record• Outputs (engagement, impact, collaboration)
Resourcing, budgeting and timetabling
• Money• Skills• Time
• Access
Ethics
• Data collection• Data management• Analysis• Dissemination• Impact• Collaboration
Research impact and dissemination
• Who is the research for?
• What will it change?
• What will you do to share the research findings?
• What will you do with the raw data?
Working with partners
• Other researchers
• Other research organisations
• Research users
• Research participants
• Partners/stakeholders?
Writing
• Feedback, collaboration and advice
• Format
• Think of the reader
Exercise 1
Write an abstract of your planned research project. This should be between 200 and 250 words, and set out:(a) The general issues and debates that your
study will engage with(b) Your specific aims and objectives(c) The research strategy you will follow to meet
these objectives
Exercise 2
In groups of no more than two or three, take it in turn to be one another’s ‘critical friend’.
Person A spends 10-15 minutes asking Person B about her research project. [e.g. What are your research questions? What are your aims? What are your objectives?]
Help and encourage Person B to refine the abstract s/he has written by asking further questions and reflecting on the answers together.
Then swap roles.