Postgrad Professional Development: Putting together your postgraduate research proposal

An introduction to putting together postgraduate student proposals in the Humanities and Social Sciences, for circulation to postgraduate students.

Putting together your postgraduate research proposal Prof Joel Quirk, Wits Politics This seminar provides practical guidance and suggestions regarding how to put together a successful postgraduate research proposal. The seminar is targeted at students at all postgraduate levels – Hons, MA, PH.D – since the core components of a research proposal are pretty similar for every postgraduate level. This is primarily for Humanities students and adjacent fields.

In preparation for the seminar participants are asked to review the following documents:

1. Putting together your postgraduate research proposal (guidance template)
2. Humanities Proposal Submission form (2023) And if you have time please also look through the following: Thomas S. Mullaney and Christopher Rea, Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World), (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022), pp. 19-42.  Wayne Booth, Gregory Colomb, and Joseph Williams, The Craft of Research, (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2008), pp. 35-50.  Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, They Say, I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing (New York: W. W. Norton, 2021), index of templates regarding how to construct arguments. Nelson Maldonado-Torres, “Outline of Ten Theses on Coloniality and Decoloniality,” Frantz Fanon Foundation, 2016, http://caribbeanstudiesassociation.org/docs/ Maldonado-Torres_Outline_Ten_Theses-10.23.16.pdf. All of these materials can be accessed here: https://lnkd.in/dFphivEz

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