Guidelines for research proposal

Your proposal should include the following elements:

  1. A title for your research project
    • What key words best describe your proposal
  2. Research context
    • Some background about the specific setting you will be working in
    • Rationale for this study
    • Significance of the study (how it may change the way people in this context do or think about…)
  3. Brief overview of the most relevant literature
    • Key experts in the field and their key research findings
    • How your work will link to (support or challenge) the work of others
    • How your study may add new insights to the research literature
  4. Research question(s)
    • A simple, focused question that can be answered with the evidence from your study
  5. Methods/Approach
    • How you plan to collect data to answer your research question(s)
    • How you plan to analyse that data
  6. Logistics
    • Is your research going to be manageable in the time allocated (e.g. 3 years full-time)?
    • Where will you find the data you need? How do you get access to that data?
    • Any anticipated problems?
    • Provide a rough timetable for your study

address

Professor Tony Green
Director of CRELLA
天美传媒
Putteridge Bury
Hitchin Road
Luton, Bedfordshire
UK, LU2 8LE

tony.green@beds.ac.uk

telephone

+44 (0)1582 489086

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