Power Point Presentation

Assessment 1: Thesis Proposal (2500 words equivalent) For this assessment we would like you to create and deliver a narrated presentation (PowerPoint or similar) articulating and justifying your proposed study. The presentation you deliver should be between 5 and 10 minutes long, with 5 minutes reserved for questioning from the member of academic staff you will be presenting to afterwards. The sections below will become the starting point for the chapters in your actual thesis so please use them to scaffold the content you present and discuss. Please include the following in your powerpoint slides (or equivalent) or your narration. It will not be possible to cover all the below in detail on your slides, so please use the slides to give headline information and use your narration to give more detail and critically justify your choices in planning your study: A carefully crafted title or overarching research question which sums up your topic very clearly and precisely in an unbiased way. A rationale for your question (why have you chosen it?). You will be expected to outline the main reasons why this topic is an important one to study (e.g. professional or educational reasons as well as literature-informed reasons). You should also provide some contextual information (background, setting, social/political considerations). Although your rationale may include some personal reasons for your interest in the topic, you will need to use literature to support your rationale in order to validate it. Key aims of your research and the contribution it will make to this area. (An extended version of this will become Chapter 1: Introduction to your actual thesis). Aim to provide 2 or 3 key aims/research questions, usually in bullet-points, which will act as a roadmap for your study. By the end of your study, you should have been able to clearly address each of the aims outlined. Be mindful of the time you will have to complete your thesis (around 6 months) and, therefore, the limited time you will have to collect data. Review of key literature on your chosen question. Aim to compare and contrast arguments from current/previous research on this topic (include definitions of any key concepts/words, any exclusions). You are aiming to provide the assessor with an overview of the current literature that exists in this field. (An extended, written version of this will become Chapter 2: Literature Review in your thesis). Methodology: We will be expecting you to justify your own decision-making around the methodological choices you have made for your study. Try to make a comment about your chosen paradigm (or philosophical approach). We expect you to define and justify your methodological approach, data collection methods and any ethical considerations, making consistent references to methodological literature to support your decisions. You must be very clear which methods have you chosen, how many participants are involved, how will you select them, and why, how long will interviews be, how many observations do you plan to conduct, etc.? You might also like to include why you have not chosen a particular method, making links to your research aims to show why a decision to include or exclude a certain approach was appropriate always using literature to support your arguments. Analysis: Justify how you will analyse your data. Discuss areas such as triangulation, validity, integrity, credibility and refer to literature to support your discussion. An extended version of the two previous sections will become your Chapter 3: Methodology in your thesis. Reference List: Please provide a full reference list of the citations used within your presentation at the end, referenced according to Harvard Referencing conventions.