Discovering Your PhD Potential: Writing a Research Proposal

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Discovering Your PhD Potential: Writing a Research Proposal
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  2. Prerequisites & Facts
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What is the course about?

Discovering Your PhD Potential: Writing a Research Proposal
The course Discovering Your PhD Potential: Writing a Research Proposal is an online class provided by University of Leicester through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Learn how to research and write a high-quality research proposal for postgraduate applications.

Course description
  • Learn how to write an excellent research proposal for a postgraduate application
  • 5 weeks
  • A carefully prepared and thorough research proposal is usually crucial for applications for advanced or doctoral study, and can provide the launchpad for the first stages of that postgraduate study.
  • 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.
  • Introduction to doctoral research
  • Funding your study
  • Defining the problem and writing a research question
  • Writing a literature review
  • Research design and methodology
  • How to construct your proposal
  • 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
  • This course has been created primarily for postgraduate research applicants, but it might also be useful for those who want to learn more about developing well-founded and challenging research bids for purposes other than postgraduate research degrees.
  • University of Leicester
  • The University of Leicester is a leading research led university with a strong tradition of excellence in teaching. It is consistently ranked amongst the top 20 universities in the United Kingdom.
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Prerequisites & Facts

Discovering Your PhD Potential: Writing a Research Proposal

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University, College, Institution

University of Leicester

Course Skill Level

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Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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Degree & Cost

Discovering Your PhD Potential: Writing a Research Proposal

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / University of Leicester you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.
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