PhD & Research Proposals · Honours to Doctorate

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Research proposal.

Are you working on a Research Proposal at Honours, Masters or PhD level? Whether it is just a thought, or a document that is developing and you need to submit to a research supervisor, let’s have a chat about what you can do to strengthen your research proposal.

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Verified researcher — ORCID iD 0000-0001-7076-7264

Where Heath helps

Help with these research requirements

How to identify the best research supervisor?
Developing the problem statement.
What is your proposed research title?
What is the proposed research methodology? Quantitative? Qualitative? Mixed methods?
What are the objectives of the PhD research?

What is your work plan? Is the research likely to be finished? You need to identify the different research stages.
What is the expected research contribution? Have you identified a feasible research gap?
What are the resource requirements for your PhD? Do you have access to what is required? If not, how will you obtain it?
Ethical requirements of your research? Is it low-risk? High-risk? Why? What does this level of risk mean for your PhD?
A comprehensive bibliography that shows your knowledge of the field, including contemporary literature and other sources (including secondary reports, grey literature, and even personal experience).

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He has also provided thoughtful, detailed feedback and helped me refine my research and writing… His support not only strengthened my thesis but also built my confidence as a researcher.

Daman Kaur · Psychology Honours thesis · Google reviewConfidence as a researcher

Heath Kirby with research students presenting their work — Heath with research students

Why Heath

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from Monash University, Department of Management.

PhD awarded 2021. Topic: Strategy and International Business, Tacit Knowledge sharing among franchisors and franchisees.
Ex-University of Melbourne lecturer (Australia’s #1 Business School). Teaching and coordinating postgraduate units 2022-2023.
9 years experience (since 2017) as a lecturer at Monash University, University of Melbourne, University of Canberra (partner program) and China.
Verified researcher. You can check Heath’s ORCID record yourself.

ORCID, which stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a name-independent person-identifier founded specifically to help solve the problem of name ambiguity in research and to enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their contributions, and their affiliations. (Source: ORCID ID website). Heath Kirby’s ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7076-7264

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To get you started

Some links about research proposals to help you get started

Monash University: A Guide to Good Research Practice

This guide is from Monash Public Health and Preventive Medicine. I have included this guide because of it’s focus on Ethics. The Guide is 85 pages. You may wish to download this and ask questions of me regarding how this Guide can relate to your own PhD proposal.

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