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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 Ireland.
In this presentation,
I'm going to talk
to you about using
the conceptual
framework to guide
the development of the
theoretical framework.
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Developing research
ideas. To begin with,
you need to develop
a research idea
into a research
statement or question,
and this is a process
of conceptualisation.
To begin with, list
the key concepts that
are of interest to you,
for example, two key concepts
that are of interest to
me are creativity
and communication.
You need to think about
the key concepts that
are of interest to
you in terms of your research
agenda and your career.
Link two or three
of these concepts
together and then put
those concepts into
Google Scholar to see what
other researchers are
studying in relation to
these concepts and to see
what research methodologies and
methods they're using
in their research.
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I want to talk to you about
creative processes of
conceptualisation.
On the right, you can
see a research diary.
In the research diary,
the researcher can go
through or begin to
develop these processes
of conceptualisation.
Conceptualisation means
bringing an idea into being.
You're trying to conceptualise,
to begin with your
research idea,
and then you're
trying to develop
that research idea into
your research project.
On the left-hand side,
we've got that palm
prints exercise.
It's an exercise
that I've developed
through my teaching practice.
The student researcher puts
the palm of their hand
down on a sheet of paper and
traces an outline of it.
Then, in the tip of each finger,
the researcher
writes a key concept
that they're interested in,
in relation to the research
that they're about to undertake.
Then, in the middle
of the fingers,
the researcher begins to
connect those concepts
together and then begins to
engage with Google Scholar
dropping the concepts
and maybe adding
new concepts or changing
them around a little bit,
maybe changing the
order of the concepts,
maybe adding in contexts like
a particular country or a
particular region in the globe
just to see what
researchers are doing in
relation to these concepts
with their research projects.
The researcher is trying to get
to the point where they can
outline their research
project in one sentence.
You can see in the
palm of the hand that
one sentence that the
researcher is reaching
for in order to concisely and
succinctly outline their idea
for their research project.
