Research Proposal on research Area

Building on the literature review, students will be required to develop a research proposal on the topic area that they had identified. The proposal should identify research design (methodological) decisions, and most importantly, explanations of the strengths and/or limitations of choosing such methodology.

Ask yourself…

What is the question or problem to be investigated?
Why does the question or problem merit to be investigated?
How will the question or problem be investigated?
Which methods would best accomplish/help answer your research question(s) or address your hypothesis? Why? What are the strengths and limitations?
Who are you doing to sample? Why? How will you choose them?
How are you going to collect data from your sample?
How, if at all, will you identify the participants/respondents?
What are the ethical considerations/risks? How will these be managed?
How will the data help answer/inform the questions or problem being investigated?
What do you anticipate to find?
How are your findings connected to the literature, if at all?
Why is this data/answer important to uncover?