AGREED PROPOSAL FORM 2023/2024

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AGREED PROPOSAL FORM

NUBS MSc Courses 2023/2024

The agreed proposal is a critical stage in your dissertation. It confirms that you and your supervisor are convinced that your project is feasible and suitable given your programme of study. Your project may still change as the research proceeds however this proposal confirms the viability of your proposed research.

Once you have completed the sections below, please forward a copy to your supervisor. They will sign it and return it to you. You then need to upload an electronic copy with your supervisor’s signature to your Dissertation Moodle page by 3pm Thursday 27^th June 2024.

If your supervisor has not approved the proposal as being appropriate for dissertation research, you should discuss with them a plan of action to develop your project. You DO NOT need to submit a revised form.

To be completed by the supervisor:

☐ Please tick if you have discussed this proposal with the student

☐ Please tick if you approve this as an appropriate proposal for dissertation research given the student’s programme of study.

Name:

Date:

Signature:

To be completed by the student:

Title 

Please provide a working title that reflects the focus of your proposed project.

Objectives of the Dissertation 

What is the focus of your dissertation? What are the main objectives of your proposed research? Why is this area interesting to you/others? What particular question(s) are you trying to answer from your research?

Background 

What knowledge or skills do you have to complete this dissertation?

Literature review

What do you know about the subject already? What has been written about the topic? What theoretical framework can you follow for this work? Where do you expect to find further research into your topic?

Research methodology, ethics and timeline 

What data sources will you use to meet your research objectives? What analytic approach will you follow? What assumptions underlie your approach? Are there any ethical concerns in your proposed methods? What timeline will you follow to complete the research?

☐ Please tick if your proposed research does not need ethics approval.

☐ Please tick if your proposed research fits the four pre-approved standard research protocols.

☐ Please tick if your proposed project does not fit the four pre-approved standard research protocols and that application for ethical approval has been applied and approved. Please submit evidence of approval on Moodle.

For further details on Research Ethics protocol please see Section 4.

Description of proposed chapters. 

Briefly describe the chapters of your dissertation and justify the logic of the proposed structure.

Length: up to 2,500 words