Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar
Description
This seminar helps early stage doctoral students design their research project. In particular, participants will:
acknowledge process, philosophical, and methodological ambiguities in their research;
understand the interplay between theory, method, data, rhetoric, and authorship in their research;
apply a framework of 21 questions to focus and design their research;
diagnose the current strengths and weaknesses of their research;
learn strategies for literature review, theory development, and theory testing;
formulate alternative research ideas and research questions;
design a literature review;
discuss alternative qualitative research designs;
discuss alternative quantitative research designs;
develop a conceptual model;
discuss alternative measurements;
design data collection and analysis;
design their thesis project.