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HDR SUPPORT GROUP:RESEARCH DESIGN

AIM OF TODAY’S MEETING

•Opportunity for you to share your research design with the group and seek feedback and advice

WHAT IS THE RESEARCH DESIGN?

• The research design refers to the overall strategy that you choose to integrate the different components of the study in a coherent and logical way, thereby, ensuring you will effectively address the research problem; it constitutes the blueprint for the collection, measurement, and analysis of data. Note that your research problem determines the type of design you can use, not the other way around!

(Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, B. 2006, Part 1, What Is Research Design? The Context of Design. Performance Studies Methods Course syllabus. New York University, Spring 2006; Trochim, William M.K. Research Methods Knowledge Base, accessed 2nd September 2013 from <http://libguides.usc.edu/content.php?pid=83009&sid=818072>)

SOME USEFUL WEBSITES

• http://w3.unisa.edu.au/researcheducation/students/methods.asp (research design information)

• http://libguides.usc.edu/content.php?pid=83009&sid=818072 (research design information)

• https://www.coursera.org/ (for online research methods courses)