Understand and harness the key elements of a succinct research plan while preparing your PhD proposal. Learn how to develop a successful PhD proposal. Successful PhD research requires preparation, planning, critical thinking, and dedication. On this course, you will explore the key elements in a research proposal and solve common planning and writing challenges.
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You will learn how to structure, define, and present your research idea in writing. You will develop your own research objectives and sub-questions and outline the context of the study. You will also learn how to manage a project. This course focuses on health sciences, but the content of the PhD proposal and the planning process of a research study is relevant to other disciplines.
What topics will you cover?
- Defining the research idea, writing a research statement with objectives and sub questions
- Identifying and writing a literature summary and review
- Empirical, conceptual or theoretical foundations of a research study
- Research ethics, fraud and plagiarism in research
- Research design and methodological approaches
- Data collection strategies, sampling, instruments and biases
- Fieldwork and contingency planning
- How to organize your PhD project
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...
- Develop your research statement with objectives and sub-questions
- Discuss sample, data collection strategies, and analysis of the empirical material that you will collect
- Asses what you can do to ensure that the proposed PhD-study will follow conventions that help ensure reliability, validity and ethical conduct
- Evaluate and use what you have learned by submitting and recieving feedback on your proposal draft each week
- Evaluate and reflect on your work with help from your peers, course educators and mentors
- Collaborate with your peers and find ways to solve possible challenges during your PhD studies.
- Explain how you will organize and structure your PhD
- Identify previous relevant research to discover gaps and why your research matters
