769A09 Human Factors

Proposal

Proposal

The course includes an individual, written assignment called a research proposal. A research proposal is a document that describes a specific research project - from the justification (why are you doing this?) to the research question(s), which is also known as a proposal statement (what will you investigate?), to the method (how are you doing this?) to limitations (what you are you not doing?). You can think of it as a document containing only the introductory, background, and methods chapter of a regular thesis, e.g. a bachelor's thesis, with a few extra bits at the end for limitations, contributions, and, of course, references. Research proposals are often written by graduate students (master's or doctorate) to describe their intended dissertation or thesis research (called a thesis proposal).

It is important to keep in mind that the actual empirical investigation(s) outlined in the proposals will not be conducted in this course! A proposal, in general, is a detailed plan that is typically reviewed by a committee of senior faculty before the student can proceed with implementing the research. The course examiner will serve this function in this particular course.

More information on the proposal, including grading criteria and structure, can be found on Lisam.

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Last updated: 2019-10-23