Graduate Researcher KnowHow

Your research questions are perhaps the most important thing in your research. They guide your methodology choice and underpin both your research and each chapter in your thesis or dissertation. It’s worth investing time to develop robust questions that will sustain and guide your research.

Check out this resource that shows how to develop your research questions. If you want to watch this on your mobile device you can download a free app (iPhone, iPad or Android) here.

There are also two videos here:

• The first describes the process of developing a focused set of research questions.
• The second discusses the relationship between research questions, hypotheses and variables in quantitative research.