You will create your own template to the PowerPoint presentation.
The structure of the presentation below is tentative, and students have autonomy to decide where they need more slides. However, the total presentation must not exceed 15 slides.
Title (1 slide)
To ensure that your title and topic point directly to the focus of your research, check to see that key terms in the statement of the gap in the literature and the research aim are reproduced in the title.
Research problem or Justification (1-2 slides)
Description of your research: what, how, why (the research needs to be done)
What issue, problem, controversy, or important matter has led to research on the topic and set your research into a wider context of the discipline?
Theoretical framework (2 slides)
The theoretical framework will be presented as a model or a flowchart and supported by a detailed description in the speaker notes. It will justify the three topics investigated further in the Literature Review.
In summary, the theoretical framework model and literature review are interconnected in the research process.
The literature review informs the development of the theoretical framework by identifying relevant theories and concepts, integrating them into a coherent framework, and establishing the conceptual basis for the research study. In this presentation, students need to demonstrate the Theoretical framework model, not the literature review.
References are mandatory. Resources, not used in the research proposal, are not needed in this section of the presentation.
Gap in the literature or evidence of the problem from reports, etc. (1 slide)
Outlines the field of literature and the ‘gap’, the main findings to date, theories, debates, and remaining questions within the literature, and explains how the research will contribute to the gap. References are mandatory.
Research aim, research objective and research question(s) (1 slide)
Outline the focus or name the specific knowledge the research methodology aims to generate.
What will you need to know to answer the research question? How can you find this out?
Explain the research design and methodology: qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods.
Clarify the correlations between the research objectives and the chosen approach.
Research method and methodology (4-5 slides)
Explain what you will do to achieve the research aim or reach your conclusions. You might consider adopting the following:
– Data and resources.
– Possible collaboration with financial services sector or non-financial services sector in the UK, or educational/research institutions.
– Budget.
– Research design and choice of research methods.
– Sampling design: the population or sample from which participants will be selected; location of the sample; the sample size; how the sample will be selected; surveys, questionnaires, including the one(s) you created, and tests used; how the data generated will be analysed.
– Choice/creation of research instruments, including online platforms, applications or software needed to a) collect data; b) analyse data.
– Your personal role in the research, your readiness (previous experience, research, training?). You need to explain and persuade your audience that you are the right person to complete the research, and competent enough to resolve the research problem.
– Understanding legislation.
– Ethics and confidentiality: Does your research involve people? Can you get enough data? How will you keep it confidential? Health and Safety considerations.
Summary or statement of proposed outcomes of the research (1 slide)
Research timeline (1 slide).
Justify the research feasibility. Explain practical limitations and how you plan to deal with them.