RESEARCH PROPOSAL WRITING

  • Reach out to supervisor to discuss initial ideas

  • The research and ethics proposal - get it done


  • Needs to be well grounded in research - do you have valid scien research to ask the question you are

  • Make sure research actually answers overall question - don’t talk about something diff in intro and discuss

  • Needs to be ethically sound

  • If you do the ethical research proposal right, you will be fine


Completed by 14th November

Completed by 12th December


500 words for the research proposal

  • Little background lit on the main thing you are looking at

  • any variables that may contribute to the question - the things that lead to question

  • you need to have a reason for why you are doing it

  • brief statement of aims, hypotheses and RQ


Methodology

  • Know about ppt

  • who how many excl crit

  • desing? experimental, superexperimental, nonexp

  • procedure

  • materials

  • is it ethically sound and will it answer you qu


Data analysis startegy

  • do you know how to analyse your data

  • e.g. regression analysis


2 core componenets of ethics

  1. risk assessment

  2. what are the potential issues and solutions?

  3. are you using deception and why


Supplementary information

  • everything a ppt sees needs to be included with the ethics form

  • information and debrief sheets

  • interview schedules - your list fo questions and any sort of standardised followup qu →semi-structured?

  • information sheets through AI



whats your IV, whats your DV

what do you need to answer your RQ

Discuss inital idea and initial background


reflection is important

complete research proposal and reflect on the process

take notes on:

  • your thoughts and feelings as you go through the ethics process

  • what worked and what hasn’t worked

  • have you learned any lessons across the process - e.g. in the group sessions

  • what would i have done diff