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Dr. Andreas Meiszner

How to identify and defend your Research Methods and Methodology?

Saturday, 30th June 2018 • Online

18:00 GMT • 19:00 UK time

Duration: 1h

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Overview

Academics consider the ability to identify, apply and justify research methods should come naturally. Yet many doctoral students appear to struggle, even though we do it albeit in a different mode in our daily work lives. Often the methods appear to be known to us even before we manage to articulate the research problem. This thinking creates a crucial point in time where things could go wrong. This is because the chosen research method/s would normally be derived from and historically applied in the traditions from the field of study.

It is only where none of these methods are deemed to be appropriate to addressing the research problem, that another method might be selected. It may be for clear reasons that we need to investigate the problem in ways that have not been utilized in prior studies. While all of this appears to be quite easy and a straight forward undertaking on the surface, the struggles of doctoral students suggests that it is not.

To assist doctoral students in identifying and defending such research methods, the DoctorateHub are presenting an interactive webinar on How to Identify and Defend your Research Methods and Methodologies.

Key Take-Aways

Participants in this webinar will gain a better understanding on how to:

(i) Understand that(a) identifying,(b) justifying, and(c) applying a research methods can be a straight forward undertaking.

(ii) Be aware that students often struggle simply because they want to select a method before they know(1) the research problem,(2) the existing studies of relevance to the problem,(3) and the wider literature in the research field.

(iii) Realise that the research methods should be derived from(ii), and be based on clearly articulated and objectively comprehensible/reproducible reasons.

(iv) Have a better understanding on how and where to present their research methods and methodologies within their thesis.

Hosts
Dr. Andreas Meiszner

Since 2012, I have tutored, mentored and coached beyond 500 professional doctoral students (mid to seniors, aged 35 to 70) both with the University of Liverpool Management School’s Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) program (UK), and since 2016 also with DoctorateHub. This allowed me to understand how to tackle problems at scale, be it the tame, the complex, or the wicked.

500+ students also implies 500+ workplace-based problems which I had the chance to look at. And while working with such an array of problems allows for quite some learningit also has shown to me that very often it is quite exhaustive for such grown up and seasoned research novices. In response to this, we thus decided to set up the DoctorateHub, so to provide training, mentoring, and coaching services to all those that struggle to get their workplace-based issues identified, analysed, understood, written up in a thesis, and ultimately resolved. 

I am also one of the DoctorateHub’s Co-founders with a particular focus on strategic development and building up of the various DoctorateHub support services that we provide. 

With this I am looking forward to work with you, wherever you are in your doctoral research journey.

Research methods and tools
Data collection techniques
Doctoral journey

This webinar is relevant to the following journey stage(s).

Initial Research Outline and Issue Identification
Research Problem and Question Framing
Thesis Research Proposal
Get Familiar with Research Specific Subjects
Obtain Ethical Clearance
Initial Research Plan
Research Design and Pretesting
  • How it works

    At DoctortaHub, we have a series of webinars that focus on various aspects of the doctoral research journey.

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Gracia

Thesis stage: Research execution: Data collection and analysis

Learning from people from different parts of the world is exhilarating. May there be more of this kind of endeavor in the future.

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Eneire O.

Thesis stage: Research planning: Getting ready for data collection

I have just signed up to this hub and it has been insightful. It was quite daunting at first and I’m thinking if do-able. But with me in this platform I can foresee a clearer future. Thanks to the organisers.

Danai Z.

Thesis stage: Post Doctoral & Publishing

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Amale E.

Thesis stage: Thesis research proposal development

I felt way better after the session especially that I got to talk to other PhD candidates that are struggling like me. I felt hope because my advisor never answers so I felt like I could have some guidance here.

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Shelley

Thesis stage: Research planning: Getting ready for data collection

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How to identify and defend your Research Methods and Methodology?

Saturday, 30th June 2018

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