Planning a Research Project - Checklist

I have listed the checklist for my research project. Hope you find the checklist is useful for your study as well.

· Do you know what the requirements for your dissertation are, as set out by university or department?

·   Have you made contact with your supervisor?

·   Have you allowed enough time for planning, doing, and writing up your research project?

· Do you have clear timetable for your research project with clearly identifiable milestones for the achievement of specific tasks?

·   Have you got sufficient financial and practical resources (for example, money to enable travel to research site, recording device) to enable you to carry out your research project?

·   Have you formulated some research questions and discussed these with your supervisor?

·   Are the research questions you have identified capable of being answered through your research project?

·   Do you have the access that you require in order to carry out your research?

·   Are you familiar with the data analysis software that you will be using to analyse your data?

·   Have you allowed others to comment on your work so far and responded to their feedback?

·   Have you checked out whether they are likely to be any ethical issues that might be raised in connection with your research?

·   Have you allowed enough time for getting clearance through ethics committee, if that is required for your research?