University of Leicester - Discovering Your PhD Potential: Writing a Research Proposal

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Overview

Build the skills, processes, and techniques to research and write a high-quality research proposal for postgraduate applications

Duration	5 weeks
Total fee	₹4,450
Mode of learning	Online
Difficulty level	Intermediate
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Credential	Certificate

Discovering Your PhD Potential: Writing a Research Proposal
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Highlights

Earn a certificate from University of Leicester

Discovering Your PhD Potential: Writing a Research Proposal
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Course details

Who should do this course?

This course is designed for postgraduate research applicants looking to improve their research proposals. It may also be of interest to anyone wanting to learn more about developing well-founded and challenging research bids.

What are the course deliverables?

Identify why you want to do a PhD and whether your expectations are realistic

Explore the main requirements, structures and problems with aiming to undertake a PhD

Demonstrate how to set a realistic, manageable and impactful research question

Compare deductive and inductive research questions

Describe and be able to implement the steps required to writing a literature review, including: doing a literature search, planning, organising and writing the literature review

Discuss what kind of theoretical approach would be useful for your research proposal

Compare the differences between ontology, epistemology, different research designs and methodology.

Summarise what you have learned from this course into a first draft of a research proposal

More about this course

This online course will give you the awareness, skills and tools to write a well thought-out and achievable research proposal, helping you improve the quality of your postgraduate applications
It will also give you a taste of the self-study required in postgraduate doctoral research.
The course focuses on Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, but much of the content is relevant to all disciplines.
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Curriculum

Introduction to doctoral research

Welcome to the course

What are your expectations of a PhD?

Funding

Review of the week

Problem definition and research question

Defining the problem

Research approaches

Research question

Review of the week

Literature review

Getting started on your literature review

Finding the right literature

Organising and planning your literature

Review of the week

Research Philosophy, Research Design, Research Methodology and Research Ethics

Introduction to research design

Research philosophy

Research design

Research methodology

Review of the week

Bringing the proposal together

Introduction

Building your proposal

What next?

Discovering Your PhD Potential: Writing a Research Proposal
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Faculty details

Neil Christie

Professor Neil Christie works at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester, and has long been that department’s PGR Tutor, overseeing all the research students there