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Hello, my name is Christina
Quinlan and I work at
The Graduate Business School at
the Technological
University of Dublin.
In this talk, I'm going to
explain the four
frameworks approach
to the research project.
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The four frameworks approach
to the research project is
a model for the
research project that
I developed from my
teaching practice.
It's a very simple
model and it's
designed to facilitate students
in developing their
understanding
of the work of undertaking
a research project.
The model provides
novice researchers
with the confidence to
undertake research.
The research project
as it develops,
goes through all
of the stages of
the research process and
will naturally become
more complex than the
four frameworks approach
to the research project
perhaps suggests.
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On the screen now, you can see
the four frameworks approach
to the research project.
The first framework is
the conceptual framework.
The conceptual framework is
contained in the
research statement or
question in that one sentence
that starts the
research project.
The research statement or
question in one sentence
contains all of the key concepts
in the research project.
The research statement
or question is
the conceptual framework
for the research project.
The second framework is
the theoretical framework.
The theoretical framework is
to be found in the
literature review.
Sometimes the terms
literature review and
theoretical framework are
used interchangeably.
When we're talking about
the theoretical framework,
we're talking about
essentially the content
of the literature review that
the researcher writes for
the research project.
The methodological framework is
the third framework in the
four frameworks approach.
The methodological framework is
contained in the research
methodology chapter that
the researcher writes
for the dissertation or
thesis or in the research
methodology section
that the researcher presents
in the report of the research.
The methodological
framework contains all of
the information about how the
research was carried out.
The fourth framework is
the analytical framework.
The analytical framework is
presented in the data
analysis chapter
that the researcher presents
in their dissertation.
The project of analysing data is
a very big project and it can go
on for a number of
weeks or a number of
months and sometimes
even a number of years
but what goes into
the dissertation is
simply a synopsis of
all of that work.
The researcher develops
an analytical framework
for the data analysis chapter
or the data analysis section,
in order to make decisions
about what elements of
the analysis to present in
the written account of
the research project.
Now, if we invert the model,
if we turn the
model upside down,
we can see clearly how
the conceptual framework
supports all of the
other frameworks
in the research project.
The conceptual framework,
that one sentence,
that is the research statement
or the research question,
supports and direct all
of the work of the
theoretical framework,
the methodological framework,
and the analytical framework.
