Narrow your research question, purpose, and audience.
This activity is designed to guide you toward articulating the topic, purpose, and audience for your project—what you hope it accomplishes, why you are motivated (and why it may motivate others) and how real audiences it can benefit, not only academically but in other ways—how your research can be consequential.
These sessions use Mutual Mentoring and Design Thinking frameworks to help you conceive of methods of research that might fit your goals—and to get advice on how to develop them. However, rather than just see this as a multiple choice question (qualitative, quantitative, survey, mixed methods, etc.), we’ll try to have both mentors and undergrad researchers co-create some innovative methods, and to ask how our research methods might better serve a more diverse group of researchers.