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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Course Overview

This 5 weeks Discovering Your PhD. Potential: Writing a Research Proposal certification is a programme that is 100% online and is made jointly by the efforts of the University of Leicester and also FutureLearn. With this course, participants will be learning about the entire process involved in doing research to write the best postgraduate application proposal for postgraduate applications.

Discovering Your PhD. Potential: Writing a Research Proposal certification syllabus inculcates students on why a carefully curated research proposal is important for doctoral studies and can be the first step towards a postgraduate study. The course has a special focus on Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts, but the content can cater to all disciplines.

Discovering Your PhD. Potential: Writing a Research Proposal training gives you the confidence to build up the tools, and skills for writing a well-premeditated research proposal, that actually helps in the betterment of the postgraduate application. Agin this course will also provide a taste of the self-study that is a must for all participating in doctoral research.

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The Highlights

  • Course on PhD. potential
  • 5 weeks course
  • Only online sessions 
  • 2 hours of weekly classes 
  • A self-learning initiative 
  • Certificate of completion

Programme Offerings

  • 5 Weeks Course
  • Online Course
  • 2 Hour Weekly Sessions
  • Certificate of completion
  • Progress Mapping
  • Global Classroom
  • self paced course

Courses and Certificate Fees

Certificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
yesFuturelearn

Discovering Your PhD. Potential: Writing a Research Proposal Fee Structure :

Description 

Amount

Buy this course (one-off payment)

Rs. 2,200

Subscribe & save

Rs. 6,500 

Limited access
Free

Eligibility Criteria

Educational Qualification

  • Though this programme is for understanding Ph.D. potentials still candidates not pursuing postgraduate research can also participate.

Work Experience

  • Any preliminary knowledge or experience in this field is not required.

Certification Qualifying Details

  • Get the course steps done, and assessments submitted to receive the Discovering Your Ph.D. Potential: Writing a Research Proposal certification by FutureLearn.

What you will learn

Writing skills

Here are some of the achievements of the participating candidates who have tried completing the course:  

  • Candidates can understand their needs and realistic expectations of why they are interested in pursuing a PhD.
  • There are structures, requirements, and problems that occur alongside a PhD which can be explained by the candidates.
  • These candidates can display how manageable, and realistic research questions can be written.
  • There is a basic difference between deductive and inductive research, and candidates will be able to compare it.
  • A literature review requires certain steps of implementation like searching the literature, planning, writing, and organising the literature review that can be written by candidates.
  • A research proposal also requires some theoretical approach that can be discussed by the candidates.
  • There are some differences between ontology, different research designs, epistemology, and methodology which can be compared by the learners.
  • Candidates will be able to summarize what they have learned and start making their first draft of a research proposal.

Who it is for

Primarily this course has been developed keeping in mind the postgraduate research applicants but nevertheless, it can also be done by other people who have an interest in learning about the more challenging, and well-funded bids of research mainly for the purposes that are different from postgraduate research degrees.


Admission Details

With just simple steps, candidates can get a thorough idea of the admissions process:

Step 1: Get started by visiting the actual website of this official course.

Step 2: When the candidates see the homepage they will find the button ‘Join the course for free.

Step 3: As they find the button they must be clicking it instantly.

Step 4: Again when they click it the candidates are taken to a new redirected page that consists of registration.

Step 5: As the candidates fill up everything required for registration they are admitted.

Application Details

FutureLearn provides an easy application process as there is no application form that has to be filled. If the candidates own any of the Facebook or Gmail accounts, then they may use these account’s email addresses to register for this programme.

The Syllabus

Welcome to the course
  • Welcome to the course
  • Welcome from the Head of College
  • Why do a PhD?
  • Other reasons for doing PhD research
  • Managing expectations about PhD goals
What are your expectations of a PhD?
  • What our students say
  • What our students say
  • What exactly is a PhD?
  • What are your expectations of taking a PhD?
  • Potential problems with PhD applications 
  • Overcoming potential PhD problems
  • Possible solutions to potential PhD problems
  • Building a community
Funding
  • Funding your research
  • Studentship from a UK research council
  • Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership
  • Midlands Graduate School ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership
  • Studentship from EU funding or other national research funding bodies
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant or Graduate Research Assistant positions
  • A current Graduate Teaching Assistant
  • Studentship from another organisation or funding body
  • Self-funding
  • Funding your research
  • Where to study and what to apply for
Review of the week
  • Review of the week

Defining the problem
  • Problem definition
  • What our current students say
Research approaches
  • From research problem to research gap - the deductive approach
  • Inductive approach
  • Utility or impact of your research
  • Your approach to your research problem
  • Planning and referencing tools
Research question
  • Introduction to research questions
  • Festival of Postgraduate Research
  • General advice
  • Formulating research questions
  • Write a research question
  • Reflexive review
Review of the week
  • Review of the week

Getting started on your literature review
  • Introduction to reviewing literature
  • Getting started
  • What our current students say - literature review
Finding the right literature
  • Finding the right literature without access to a university
  • Pre-publication versions of articles
  • Open access journals
  • How can you access academic literature?
  • Finding the right literature when you have access to a university
  • Use Google Scholar to search for your idea
Organising and planning your literature
  • Organising the material
  • Planning your literature
  • Write a Literature Review
  • Write a literature review
  • Write a literature review
Review of the week
  • Review of the week

Introduction to research design
  • Research philosophy, design, methodology and ethics
  • What our current students say
  • The interrelationship between the building blocks of research
Research philosophy
  • Research philosophy
  • Ontology
  • Epistemology
  • Your understanding of ontology and epistemology
Research design
  • Research design
  • Quantitative and qualitative research design
Research methodology
  • Identifying research methods
  • Research methodology
  • Choosing your research method or methods
  • Research ethics
  • Using the CERD framework to think through the duties of a researcher
Review of the week
  • Begin to outline your overall approach and methodology
  • Review of the week

Introduction
  • Introduction
  • What our current students say
  • Studying for a PhD by distance learning
  • Professor Martin Parker, Director of Research in the School of Business
  • Professor Kirsten Malmkjaer, Professor of Translation Studies
Building your proposal
  • Selling your topic: the title
  • Examples of titles
  • Feedback on example titles
  • The context
  • Research questions
  • Methods
  • Reflections
  • Provisional timetable
  • Conclusions and references
What next?
  • Bringing it all together
  • What next?
  • Closing words
  • Recognition and thanks

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