This week’s topics
Topic Selection and Research Aims
- Formulating international business law topics
- Drafting research questions
- Aligning research aims and objectives
- Justifying academic and practical significance
- Research Aims, Objectives & Research Questions (The Golden Thread) - Definitions + Examples ?
- Research Questions, Aims and Objectives
- Business Research: Research Aims, Questions, and Objectives
What you will be able to do
- 2.1 Choose a relevant legal research project topic.
- 2.2 Create appropriate research aims and objectives with justification.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: choose a relevant legal research project topic.
Study materials
Videos
- Research Aims, Objectives & Research Questions (The Golden Thread) - Definitions + Examples ? · YouTube · Grad Coach · 25 min · for registered students
- Research Questions, Aims and Objectives · YouTube · Mark Saunders on Research Methods · 9 min · for registered students
- Business Research: Research Aims, Questions, and Objectives · YouTube · Robin Bell · 11 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Writing Guide, 12.5: Formulating a research question · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 402–404 · for registered students
- 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
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
