Developing your Research Project (FutureLearn)
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- Dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants - etched on £2 coin
- building on other scholars works - making original - but not adrift - a good project looks at work of previous + building on views
- My curiosity was triggered when I happened to read about a failed insurance claim for lost cargo destroyed in the fire on the ship Fame in 1824, which was sailing from Southeast Asia to London. I began looking into the procedure for such claims and the sheer mundanity and tedium of the process fascinates me.
- Transferable skills - selfawareness, initiative, committment, numeracy, leadership, teamwork, etc
- make a checklist
- make a learning/research log
- talk to as many people as possible
- find out if it has been done by someone else already
- Subject eg History
- Theme eg US foreign policy
- Context eg Counterterrorism under Clinton 1993-2001
- Topic (should have debate potential)
- Research questions (will reveal if it is viable in its process, and help you gather up information to prove the hypothesis)
- Draft hypothesis (broad enough but also narrow to be managable)
- keep track of changes of how you changed your mind in the process and keep it in the research log
