I recently ran an internal HDR (Higher Degrees Research) workshop around research framing and questions, based on some earlier materials for which I’d also created a session on research and ethics.
The workshop materials are (3rd party material excluded) under a CC-By license, and available below (the links are to Notion pages, with embedded resources). They cover:
Session 1: Research and Knowing ( https://tinyurl.com/TD-res-01)
- What is research?
- What does research look like?
- Introduction to Transdisciplinary research
- Mapping the logic of research
- And then some material on methods and validity (and how to explore these)
Session 2: Using Questions to Drive Research ( https://tinyurl.com/TD-res-02)
- What research questions are and why they’re important in research
- Developing research questions
- Types of research question (images are largely from honours research project development, with thanks)
Session 3: Research and Ethics ( https://tinyurl.com/TD-res-03)
- What is ethics?
- History of research ethics and its core features
- Why aspects of methods are relevant to research ethics concerns
- Thinking about ethics as deliberative and complex