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Choose a single research topic and then develop two research proposals (that are both based on the same topic). Then you should develop a critical evaluation in order to propose the most suitable approach (which might be quantitative or qualitative, or indeed a combination (ie. mixed methods)
Part 1 – Introduction 10% ....One topic, common introduction – literature review, context, why it’s important. (this should be common to both proposals and so only need be presented once)
• Provide a title for your research Background context: give an overview of the topic or problem, draw on key topic-related literature (correctly referenced), and explain why researching the topic or problem is important.
Part 2 – Quantitative research proposal 25%
• Overall research question: state what your overall research question is. This should be clear, succinct and specific.
• Research aim(s) and objective(s): List your aims and objectives relating to the research question(s). You may include a hypothesis (or hypotheses) here. State any key theories that you may be using or testing.
• Explain which quantitative research strategy you have chosen.
• Explain and justify the sampling method.
• Design a way of collecting suitable quantitative data (include it as an Appendix) and explain how you would administer it. NB. If you are proposing to use secondary data instead, clearly show how the data were originally collected and discuss their relevance and quality.
• Explain how the data will be analysed and presented in order to address the research question, aim(s) and objective(s).
Part 3 – Qualitative research proposal on the same topic- 25%
• Design a succinct research proposal for the same topic, but this time using a ′qualitative′, inductive approach. Your question, aim(s) and objective(s) may need to change from those in Part 2.
• Overall research question: state what your overall research question is. This should be clear, succinct and specific.
• Research aim(s) and objective(s): List your aims and objectives relating to the research question(s). If appropriate, state any key theories that you may be using.
• Explain which qualitative research strategy you have chosen.
• Explain and justify the sampling method.
• Design a way of collecting suitable qualitative data (include a list of questions as an Appendix) and explain how you would administer it. NB. If you are proposing to use secondary data instead, clearly show how the data were originally collected and discuss their relevance and quality.
• Explain how the data will be analysed and presented in order to address the research question, aim(s) and objective(s).
Part 4 – 20% critical evaluation and recommendation
• Going down through each layer of Saunders et al.’s (2016, or earlier) ‘Research Onion’, write a critical evaluation of your two research proposals developed in parts 2 and 3 (drawing on a wide range of research methodology literature to support your argument).
• As a result, you should conclude by stating what would be, based on your critique, the most suitable approach for your chosen research topic and why.
• This may be a quantitative or qualitative approach, or indeed a mixture of the two – you must decide and defend your choice.
Part 4 is the critical evaluation of the two proposals, qualitative and quantitative. You are to go through the layers of the research onion, and provide arguments why, for your project, for example, interpretivism is more suitable than "positivism", mixed methods are more suitable than a single method, etc.
Please make such arguments in Part 4 of the assignment. While you might touch on them in Parts 2 and 3, making the arguments only there, and then simply write in Part 4 "see above", might be confusing for your markers because they will not find the material where they expect to find it.
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