Template for Research Proposal

ESRC Doctoral Studentships 2018 Research Proposal
Please complete this research proposal and upload it to the Scottish Graduate School’s Online Portal. /
Name:
Enter your name here / Please select:
1+3 / 2+3 / +3 / +2 AND
Full Award / Fees Only / Please select:
Full-time / Part-time
Provisional title of research project:
Enter the title of your research project here (it is expected that titles might be tentative at this stage)
Potential Supervisors:
·  Enter the name of your potential supervisors here
Guidance on Research Proposal:
All applicants for PhD studentships at the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science are required to submit a research proposal. The research proposal is an essential component of the application. Once you have completed the research proposal please upload it, as part of your application, to the Scottish Graduate School’s Online Portal.
The research proposal must be a detailed description of the intended research topic. It will form the basis for assessing the application. The proposal should be written in a clear and concise manner. The main body of the research proposal (excluding the bibliography) must not exceed 1500 words. Please note that the box below is locked at 10,000 characters.
The Research Proposal should include the following sections:
·  Overview – a general introduction to your research topic, which should include the research question/s to be addressed and the overall aim of the project.
·  Context – situate the research within the relevant literature/s. This should include a brief summary of research already taken in the field, addressing key works and scholars. Specific attention should be paid to problems in the existing literature and ways in which your proposed research challenges/addresses these problems. You should also give an account of the theoretical issues relevant to your research, and whether you intend to test existing theories or develop new ones.
·  Methodology – provide a detailed account of the methodology and/or methods that will be used. Specific attention should be paid, where relevant, to any innovative aspects of the proposed methodology.
·  Impact – a brief discussion of the implications of the proposed research for the broader discipline, any practical applications, and/or any policy relevance.
ENTER YOUR RESEARCH PROPOSAL IN THE BOX BELOW.
Enter your proposal here - this is limited to 10,000 characters which is approximately 1,500 words. You may also enter/embed diagrams. Please delete this text before starting to write your proposal.
Indicative Bibliography:
Enter bibliography here. References within the research proposal should be Harvard Style and the bibliography should reflect this.
Timetable:
Enter timeline here - this section must only include an indicative timescale for your research. Any substantive discussion of your research in this box will not be considered by assessors.
Expected Fieldwork or other empirical work:
In this section please highlight whether you plan to conduct fieldwork/empirical investigation overseas. If you plan to undertake your fieldwork within the UK then you should indicate whether you expect the costs of this fieldwork to be met within the indicative Research and Training Support Grant (currently £750 p.a). If not, how will additional costs be met?

Declaration:

I confirm that this proposal is my own work, completed with the support of my supervisor.

Signature: Your electronic signature should go here. Date: Date should go here.