Exercises

  1. Write an appropriate qualitative research question for your own research project. Why is this question appropriate for qualitative research? Identify the study objectives. From where do the research questions originate and what is the purpose or expected outcome of the research?
  2. Which theories will guide your research? Why are these theories most appropriate?
  3. What does your conceptual framework look like? Can you derive the research questions from your conceptual framework?
  4. Having defined your research questions, and having identified your theoretical framework, which research methods would you select? Is there coherence between the different tasks that you do in the design cycle?