by You know that really frustrating moment when you know you have read something really cool somewhere but you stupidly can’t find your notes on it ? Yep I just had that… the good news is by some miracle I have now remembered that it was in a hand written note. I haven’t quite got around to scanning my handwritten notes in but maybe that is something I need to sort out quite rapidly !
Any how what I was looking for was a great article that helps you work out how you might be contributing to knowledge. I should have guessed that it would be by Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpacheco his blog is just so cool. He does some really great twitter threads where he posts stuff and integrates this with his blog.
The blog post in question is called Developing the core elements of a research proposal: Finding a gap in the literature, mapping contributions to scholarship. There is a ton of really helpful stuff in this article include his suggested 5 questions for what PhD Candidates need to be able to answer about their own research and questions that help you identify the gap in the literature.
The bit that I was trying to find is the bit where he talks about the sorts of contributions that might be the end product of the PhD ( at least I think that is what it means).
He suggests things like …
An Innovative Framework
Integration of Literature
Generation of new data or collecting data that wasn’t available in the present form
~ Dr Raul Pachego-Vega June 28 2018
So, food for thought …
Huge thank you yet again Dr Pacheco-Vega.
References
Pachego-Vega (2018) Developing the core elements of a research proposal: Finding a gap in the literature, mapping contributions to scholarship.
