Creating a Project to Investigate Workplace Issues - Research Proposal Video Presentation

The Assessment Task Summary:

You are to create a 10-minute video presentation of your research proposal including your research plan. Focusing on your workplace or organisation, your research proposal should present and justify your investigation of a specific issue/ topic in your workplace. Detail:

Please follow this format for your video proposal:

Title – what is the working title of your work-based project? Make sure your title conveys what you propose your project will do. This will use at least one action verb. Your title should be no more than 15 words.

Introduction and Research Context – as with any introduction, you should briefly outline the proposal’s structure and then address the following areas:

1. What is your project about or trying to achieve?

2. Why are you interested in your chosen issue/ topic/ title?

3. What is the setting for your project? Organisation type? Number of employees? Geographical location? Etc.

4. What are the aim and objectives of your project

5. What research question/s does your project aim to answer?

6. (Where appropriate) What hypothesis/es will your research test?

Research Rationale – Why is it important to research this topic in relation to your workplace? This section should be indicative. You need to identify the landmark studies in your topic area and describe how these relate to the issue/ topic you intend to look at in your work-based project. You are not expected to have thoroughly read and absorbed all the books and papers you discuss, but you will obviously need to know what the literature is about.

Methodology – You must cover each of the 10 points below:

1. What research paradigm does your research belong to?

2. How has this informed your choice of methodology, or procedures?

3. How has this informed your choice of research methods or tools?

4. Who are you generating/gathering data from? (Population and study sample)

5. How many people are you generating/gathering data from? (sample size)

6. How will you choose the people you are gathering/generating data from? What criteria will you use? (selection of sample)

7. How will you collect/gather your data? Why? Where? When?

8. In consideration of ethics, how will you inform participants about the purpose of the project?

9. How will you secure consent from your participants?

10. What analytical procedure(s) will you use to analyse your data? Why?

Research Plan / Schedule – allowing for slippage time, provide a detailed step-by-step plan for your research project. You may wish to show these key milestones, among others, on a Gantt chart:

Research Rationale

1. I will submit my Proposal video by…

2. I will have my ethics documents ready for submission by…

3. I will secure ethical approval by…

4. I will begin the process of gathering data by…

5. I will begin to analyse my data…

6. I will complete my data analysis by…

7. I will revise my literature review by…

8. I will produce the first draft of my project report by…

9. I know the supervision process ends by…

10. I will submit my final project by…

Word /Time Limits (where appropriate)

The maximum time limit for this assessment is 10 minutes.

In accordance with the Assessment and Feedback Policy, as stated in section 4.40 where a submission exceeds the stipulated limit by more than 10%, the submission will only be marked up to and including the additional 10%. Anything over this will not be included in the final grade for the assessment item. Note: Abstracts, bibliographies, reference lists, appendices and footnotes are excluded from any time limit requirements.

In line with section 4.41 of the same Policy, where a submission is notably under the time limit, the full submission will be marked on the extent to which the learning objectives have been met.

Learning Outcomes

The learning outcomes that are being assessed in this assessment are:

On successful completion of the module, with minimal guidance, you will be able to...

b) Design a research proposal that considers the ethical, methodological and practical dimensions of work-based research, in a specific work context.

e) Design a project plan, in consultation with the host organisation, that aims to meet  identified project goals and deadlines. Your grade will depend on the extent to which you meet these learning outcomes in the way relevant for this assessment. Please see the grading rubric on NILE for further details of the criteria against which you will be assessed.

Assessment Support

Specific support sessions for this assessment will be provided by the module team and notified through NILE, You can also access individual support and guidance for your  assessments from the Learning Development team. The Skills Hub is another useful source of online support for assessments and academic skills.

Academic Integrity and Misconduct Unless this is a group assessment, the work you produce must be your own, with work taken

from any other source properly referenced and attributed. For the avoidance of doubt this means that it is an infringement of academic integrity and, therefore, academic misconduct to ask someone else to carry out all or some of the work for you, whether paid or unpaid, or to use the work of another student whether current or previously submitted.