Prepare a 2000 word (+/- 10%) research design on a topic of your choice. Based on your literature review, you will have identified important and unanswered questions with regards to your topic. How might these be answered? Your research design should (1) pose the research question that you seek to address, (2) review the relevant/existing literature (judicious and efficient selection), (3) propose your conceptual framework and research method (interviews, FGs, primary/secondary data, ethnography, observation, surveys etc.) that best tackles your research question, describing how you would conduct research to enhance your understanding of that particular social phenomenon etc.; and 4) demonstrate viability/feasibility.
Your proposed research design must be feasible in terms of the resources typically available to academic researchers. You need to justify why you have chosen your particular research methodology over other possible methodologies.
