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Developing your research question Emma Coonan Information Skills Librarian

Overview What is research? What is a research question? Narrowing your focus What – why – how

What is research?

Gathering information to answer a question that solves a problem Booth, Colomb & Williams, The Craft of Research, p.10

What is research? Original image © John White 2001; subsequent unauthorised amendment in 4chan ; reproduced under fair dealing for educational purposesJohn White4chanfair dealing

Mapping new territory instead of following a path Research feels like …

Mapping new territory instead of following a path Putting another brick in a wall Research feels like …

Mapping new territory instead of following a path Putting another brick in a wall Having a conversation or dinner party Research feels like …

Mapping new territory instead of following a path Putting another brick in a wall Having a conversation or dinner party Coaxing an octopus into a glass Research feels like …

What research isn’t Miller & DeJoy, 2010 ‘Assessing collaboration’Assessing collaboration

“It’s the movement back and forth between information and what you think of that information … that will involve you in the process of knowledge making, rather than simple information retrieval and reporting.” Bruce Ballenger, The Curious Researcher, p.126

What is a research question?

“… a clear, focused, complex and arguable question [or statement] around which you center your research.” George Mason University Writing Centre

What is a research question? “You should ask a question about an issue that you are genuinely curious about.” George Mason University Writing Centre

Narrowing your focus RIA Novosti archive, image # / Anatoliy Garanin / CC-BY-SA 3.0image #854874

Narrowing your focus ‘Ballet’, Gavin Golden, CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0Ballet

Narrowing your focus Example from Capella University, Library Research HandbookLibrary Research Handbook

War and Peace Free will in War and Peace The conflict of free will and historical inevitability in Tolstoy’s description of three battles in War and Peace Example from Booth, Colomb & Williams, The Craft of Research, p.43 Narrowing your focus

Type 2 diabetes Patient adherence in type 2 diabetes sufferers Alcohol consumption and adherence to self-care behaviours in type 2 diabetes: the inclusion of brief interventions for alcohol in diabetes care Katy Knott (2013) University of Leicester PhD thesis Narrowing your focus

What – why – how CHANGING ROOMS CHANGING ROOMS

What – why – how What is your research? What question does it answer (or ask)? Why are you doing it? Why will it make a difference to the research field? How are you doing it? What’s your approach or method?

The ‘why’ of your research

The ‘how’ of your research

Uri Alon (2009) ‘How to choose a good scientific problem’ p.728 Where next?

Dr Liz Clarke: SCI Rachel Henderson: SCI & Research Sarah Elsegood: HUM Carly Sharples: SSF William Jones: FMH Expert support: Library and LET services/students/let

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” – Albert Einstein (allegedly) See:

portal.uea.ac.uk/library/information-skills UEA Information Skills