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• The University of Leicester (UK) has a useful guide to planning and conducting a dissertation research project that covers all the aspects of developing the proposal and implementing it.
   
• The “Guide to undergraduate dissertations in the social sciences” site produced by the Higher Education Academy and Sheffield Hallam University (UK) has a number of pages relevant to this chapter, with three indicated below

• http://www.socscidiss.bham.ac.uk/getting-started.html
• http://www.socscidiss.bham.ac.uk/research-question.html
• http://www.socscidiss.bham.ac.uk/ethics.html

• The Research Ethics Guidebook site has invaluable hints, tips and advice on ethical issues and practice across the whole range of the research process.
• The Pennsylvania State University Writing Centre has a quite comprehensive pdf document covering all aspects of the research proposal, including examples of style and layout for the various sections.  It also has, at the end, a number of links to other university sites containing sample proposals.