This week’s topics
Research Design and Resource Planning
- Formulating research questions and hypotheses
- Establishing academic and commercial rationale
- Physical and digital resource auditing
- SMART milestone planning and Gantt charts
- Research questions: Descriptive, exploratory, explanatory and evaluative questions
- Planning your Research Project 2025
- How to write Research Aim, Objectives, Questions and hypotheses
What you will be able to do
- 1.3 Develop research questions or hypothesis with rationale.
- 1.4 Clarify resources efficiently for the research question or hypothesis.
- 1.5 Create an agreed SMART timeframe for completion of the research.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: develop research questions or hypothesis with rationale.
Study materials
Videos
- Research questions: Descriptive, exploratory, explanatory and evaluative questions · YouTube · Mark Saunders on Research Methods · 7 min · for registered students
- Planning your Research Project 2025 · YouTube · University of Staffordshire Student Life · 21 min · for registered students
- How to write Research Aim, Objectives, Questions and hypotheses · YouTube · The Concepts · 18 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Principles of Sociological Inquiry, ch. 4: Beginning a Research Project · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 37–50 · for registered students
- Improving the development of students' research questions and hypotheses · PDF · ERIC, article · for registered students
- Entrepreneurship, ch. 14: Fundamentals of Resource Planning · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 539–580 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
