Housing Studies dissertation 1st meeting 2025
Housing Studies dissertation 1st meeting 2025
2025 information
1st supervision
To discuss topic and guidance to do proposal
-about background, direction, interests, areas, relevance
to work, accessibility of data, time management etc.
Constructing research questions.
Sharing of how research in practice.
** Using perplexity to derive a set of research objectives and questions from a concrete research theme.
Students: please note: a Research Proposal (10%) – about 1,500 words submission is required./ An Ethics Form submission is required together with Progress Review (10%) –not less than 2500 words./ Preliminary draft (at least 9000 words with Completion of Presentation of Results)/ Formal dissertation report (80%) (12,000 words.)
1st meeting arrangement:
Oct 30, 2025 (Thursday)
Research Proposal submission deadline:
24-Nov-2025
Progress review submission deadline:
6 April, 2026
Preliminary draft submission deadline:
8 June, 2026
Formal dissertation report submission deadline:
3 Aug, 2026
From the module guide:
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The proposal should follow the following format:
Working title and research area
Give a working title for your proposal. What is the broad research area that you are
interested in? What specifically are you interested in looking into? What do you hope
to find out? What is the relevance of the proposed research to contemporary human
geography and/or planning? What is the overall aim of your research? It is important
here that you make some reference to academic literature in your research field.
Research questions
Draft up some provisional research questions (about 3) that will guide you in your
project and enable you to achieve the overarching aim of the dissertation. N.B.
These should be clearly focussed and, in particular, should not be too broad.
They must be answerable, and should be in a logical order. Provide some
explanation/justification for their selection.
Research methods
Are you intending to take a predominantly quantitative approach or qualitative
approach to your proposed research? Will you be collecting primary data, or making
use of secondary data sources? What research methods do you expect to use and
why? Be realistic – you cannot do everything. Bear in mind that getting interviews
with key actors, for example, can often be difficult or, sometimes, impossible!
Sources of information
What sources of information are you anticipating being able to access and make use
of? What literature resources have you identified as likely to be of use, for example,
books, articles, reports, websites? It is important that these include academic
work, such as journal articles. Give some idea of their content and why you think
they would be useful.
Timetable for research
An indicative timetable for how you might carry out the research and write your
dissertation, covering the period up to the submission of the dissertation itself. A
gantt chart is often the clearest way to show this.
List of references
As for any piece of academic work you need to provide an alphabetical list of all the
references referred to in the research proposal set out in Harvard style. N.B. any
online references need to be referenced in the same way as any other – do not
include a list of unidentified website addresses!
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Useful research methods study materials:
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