RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
S.M.A.R.T – Specific ,measurable, achievable, Relevant, Time bound
A good research objective needs to follow good literature review
Organize literature review well
- Each row consisting of each research paper
- Each column for several bullet points
- Research question
- Characteristics of data
- Method applied
- Performance of methods
- Interpretation of results
- Gap in existing literature
Research objectives
- Objective needs to be realistic in terms of required data access, software and computational power
- Aware of the predictive power in data
- Methods to extract the power
- If the data lacks predictive power , there is little you can do to change this
- It is important to have a fallback position while setting the research objective
Characteristics of good research:
- Systematic
- Valid & Verifiable
- Controlled
- Rigorous
- Empirical
- Critical
- Contribution
Characterisitics of good research question:
- Feasible
- Novel
- Relevant
- Ethical
- Narrow down and interesting
Research proposal:
- Your name
- Title : Max 10 words character
- Summary of proposed research(Max 200 words)Resear
- Research question (max 350 words)
- Details of research project(2000 words) – Aim and objective, Work leading up to the project, Data
- Desired Outcome
- Risks or Contingency plan
- Time tables and milestones
- References
Elements in template cover
- Research question
- Resources required
- Rigour
- Risk
Things to consider before doing a research
- Project is ambitious ,so there will be multiple steps to success
- Each step define a milestone that you need to write down in a proposal
- In final dissertation, we explain the achieved milestones
- Explain the mitigation to allow rest of the project to which we continued
