How to Prepare for Proposal Defense
jevannelLate nights of sleep are not yet over because, as of the writing of this post, I am still preparing for the upcoming proposal defense. I slept a quarter to…
How to Construct A Sampling Frame
As a researcher, it is essential that you establish a Sampling Frame for your unit of analysis. Oxford Languages defines a sampling frame as a list of the items or…
PhD Journey: Improvements for Dissertation Proposal
Remove “Objectives from the Statements of the Problem”. Translate Objectives to Research Questions Enhance the themes in the RRL Simplify the Conceptual Framework Do not use functional model Use hub…
💚✨Progress is Not Linear, We Just Need to Keep Moving 💪💚
This academic year, I decided to end my hiatus with my dissertation. And so I started again reading and writing my paper. It is very challenging because of the loads…
ResearchGate – My Research Items Got 10k READS!
Just this afternoon, I checked my ResearchGate account and was so surprised by this congratulatory notification! My research items got 10,090 reads! Accordingly, a 'read' is counted each time someone…
Challenged to Challenge: Gap-Spotting and Problematization
These days, I am reading lots of articles on research and about my topic of interest for dissertation on health equity. One of the suggested readings for us when I…
An Era of the Best Research Design: A Route to Misalignment
Isn’t it ironic that we wanted to shed light to our research journey, yet we are taking a non-aligned path? Often, this – leads us to a different destination. It…
Foundation Topics for Understanding Rural and Urban Development: An Integrated Reflection Paper
Making sense of research in the context of rural and urban development drags my thoughts on what public service means.
God, You have been so good to me – Psalms 116:7
Blessings do come to those who have FAITH 💚
Tips on How to Determine the Research Gap
In this article, I have listed down the types of research gaps that Miles (2017) proposes, which emerged from a compendium of literature he collated from various authors.