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| Most Masters students and most self-funding students at Doctoral level will have an almost completely open choice about the topic for their research project. The only limitations will be whether your university can support you to do the project, i.e. whether it has the equipment, facilities and staff expertise to do the study. As a Doctoral student, of course, this will have been a factor in your choice of university, as there is no point applying to a university that cannot support your research topic. So how do you choose what to do? The model below has been used successfully with large numbers of students to help them choose their project topic. It works through a number of stages, which help you to narrow down your ideas from a broad field to a specific research question. Think broadly about what interests you in your subject. Write down a list of themes, by asking yourself the following questions: • What themes particularly interested you in your undergraduate programme? • If you are a Masters student or have completed a Masters degree, what themes interested you in your Masters degree? • What are the current ‘hot’ topics in the field? In other words, what topics is there most discussion about either in the research papers or in the popular journals? • If your field is a professional field (such as medicine, teaching, business, law), what are the current ‘hot’ professional issues that there is most discussion about? • Are there any issues in the field which are particularly important to your own national setting? • Are there any themes or topics that have interested you since you were young? For each of these questions write down a list of the topics that come into your mind. This might be a long or short list, but it is helpful to have at least one topic under each heading. |
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