This week’s topics
Research Questions and Project Planning
- Formulating research aim and hypotheses
- Resource allocation and budgeting
- SMART milestone setting
- Gantt chart development
- Research Questions, Aims and Objectives
- Business Research: Developing a Research Aim, Questions, and Objectives
- 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, Aims and Objectives · YouTube · Mark Saunders on Research Methods · 9 min · for registered students
- Business Research: Developing a Research Aim, Questions, and Objectives · YouTube · Robin Bell · 9 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
- Writing Guide, 12.5: Formulating a research question · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 402–404 · for registered students
- Entrepreneurship, ch. 15.1: Launching your venture (Gantt chart) · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; p. 574 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
