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Hello, my name is Dr. Christina
Quinlan and I work at
The Graduate Business School at
the Technological
University of Dublin.
In this short talk today,
I'm going to talk to you about
research methodology and design.
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Research methodology and design,
in this section of
the research project,
in the written account
of the research project,
this is how and
where you explain
how you actually
carried out your study.
Experts in research
methodologies,
for example examiners
will expect to
see this laid out in a
fairly formulaic manner.
Each student or each researcher
will present their research,
their research proposal in
more or less exactly
the same way
but each project and each
proposal will be unique.
Each project's or each
proposal's uniqueness
lies in the idea for
the research project and in
the research methodology
developed for the project.
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The four frameworks approach to
the research project
is very helpful.
The first framework is
the conceptual framework,
and this is contained in
the one sentence that starts
the research project.
That's the research statement
or the research question.
It contains all of
the key concepts in
the research project.
The second framework, the
theoretical framework,
is the literature review,
or we say sometimes that it is
contained in the
literature review.
The third framework is the
methodological framework.
The methodological framework for
the research project contains
all of the information on
how the research was
actually carried out.
If you invert the model,
if you turn the
model upside down,
you can see how the
conceptual framework
supports the other
three frameworks
in the research project.
We'll talk about the analytical
framework in a later talk.
