Research Proposal

Research Proposal Guidance

Part of the application for MPhil and Ph.D programmes, you will need to prepare a research proposal outlining your proposed area of study.

1. Brief title for your proposed programme of research

2. Your reasons and purposes for undertaking this project

- Highlight your interests in the area, does it meet your future ambients and is it based on

research you have conducted already.

3. Research project background

- Introduce the topic area.

- Why is this research important?

- What is the exact research question you are going to investigate.

- Highlight past research in the area with pros and cons.

- How will your research will add to knowledge in this area?

- Highlight the novelty of your research question.

4. Research project objectives

* Identify your research stages such as:

- Highlight specific areas to be investigated.

- What are you going to be developing.

- What sort of data are you going to be using.

- The size of your training/validation/testing/evaluation sets.

- How are you going to be collecting the data.

- How are you going to evaluate your research outputs.

5. Ethical issues

- Is there any potential risk to harm yourself or any participant of your research. If yes, then

how are you going to resolve/minimise it.

6. Training and preparation

* Highlight a number of training sessions will help you through your research degree such as:

- Cite Right with EndNote

- Conference Paper Presentation

- Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing

- How to Write a Literature Review

- Managing Your Research Project

- Poster Design and Presentation

7. References

* Harvard format references