Writing Doctoral Project Proposals: Higher Education Research (Doctoral Research into Higher Education Book 3)

This book gets down to the essential information needed by anyone who is writing a doctoral research proposal in the area of higher education research. So it is concise, while still being comprehensive and useful, at 8,600 words (about 29 pages in Word format). Its audience is prospective doctoral students who have to write a project proposal which will be assessed for admission and perhaps for a scholarship to do their doctoral research, as well as those who have already been admitted to university but now need to have a full proposal approved. More extended books are available for those who need a fuller treatment of doctoral proposal writing. However these attempt to cover the social sciences in general.

For readability, terms which may need a fuller explanation are linked from the text to a glossary at the end of the book.

Paul Trowler is uniquely qualified to write on this topic. He is Professor of Higher Education at Lancaster University, UK. For many years he was responsible for postgraduate research student admissions to the Department of Educational Research, for organizing selection processes for doctoral scholarships and for assessing project proposals on the Doctoral Programme in Higher Education there. He has BA, MA, Cert. Ed. and PhD degrees and is an elected Fellow of the Society for Research into Higher Education.

Paul’s Amazon profile page is here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B001HQ35TY.

Contents List:

Introduction

Title of the Project

Research Questions

Background to the Research Topic

Research Design & Methods

Significance of the Research

Research Timetable

Writing a Bibliography

Finding Inspiration

From Sketchy Idea to Robust Project Proposal

Glossary

References