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This guide provides a comprehensive overview for developing a research proposal focused on the sociology of knowledge production in universities. It emphasizes the importance of identifying pertinent problems, crafting a rationale that addresses empirical gaps, and engaging critically with foundational and contemporary authors in the field. It also outlines data collection strategies, analysis methods, and ethical considerations within both qualitative and quantitative frameworks. This resource is geared towards students and researchers looking to align their proposals with academic expectations and institutional relevance.

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  1. Domains of action

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  4. Doing Research

  5. Producing a Research Proposal • Identify a problematic • eg the sociology of knowledge production in universities • Produce brief rationale • eg whilst medicine is often held to be a model for education, there is little empirical research into knowlede production in these fields • Demonstrate that you are familiar with any canonical work relevant to your problematic • eg Durkheim, Fleck, Feyerabend, Kuhn, Mannheim, Merton, Foucault, Latour, Bernstein • Demonstrate that you are familiar and can engage critically with recent research that is relevant to your problematic • eg Knorr Cetina, Shapin, Turnbull

  6. Producing a Research Proposal • Identify a plausible research setting • Access, manageability • Identify possible data collection strategies • eg participant observation, loosely structured interviews, survey • Identify possible data analysis strategies • Engage with authors (eg Glaser, Strauss & Corbin, Coffey & Anderson, Dowling & Brown, Silverman) • Identify a possible general approach • eg Bernstein, Dowling • Identify and discuss ethical issues

  7. Qual or Quant? • Quantitative Research • Positivism, empiricism, realism • Theorise in advance • Sampling intended to generalise to a population • Research designs and data collection instruments highly technical • Data analysis highly technical • Qualitative Research • Interpretivism • Theory, research questions come later • Results may generalise to a process, but not to a population • Fieldwork often extended • Data analysis is difficult

  8. Tips • Proposal should be explicitly relevant to institution/supervisors • Proposal should be explicitly relevant to your academic background • Critical engagement with cited work • Keep the rationale brief • Be prepared to negotiate

  9. Programmes • PhD • Part-time or full-time • Research training programme • Final assessment only on thesis (80K words) • Emphasis on knowledge production • EdD (& International EdD) • Part-time only • Taught and assessed courses • Institution-focused study (20K) • Thesis (45K) • Emphasis on knowledge production AND professional development Institute of Education University of London 20 Bedford Way London WC1H 0AL Tel +44 (0)20 7612 6000 Fax +44 (0)20 7612 6126 Email info@ioe.ac.uk Web www.ioe.ac.uk

  10. Programmes • MRes • Part-time or full-time • Taught modules • Dissertation (15K) • Online MRes • University of London External Programme • Part-time or full-time • Taught modules • Dissertation (15K) • Associateship/Special courses/Postdoctoral students Institute of Education University of London 20 Bedford Way London WC1H 0AL Tel +44 (0)20 7612 6000 Fax +44 (0)20 7612 6126 Email info@ioe.ac.uk Web www.ioe.ac.uk

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