Managing your research

1. Managing your research
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2. Anchoring your research
Identify anchor points or support mechanisms that are in
place to help you do your research. What assistance is
offered on the course/ by the university? How will you
manage the research project?
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3. Timescale for the Project
Identify how you are going to manage your research
through a timetable of tasks. This should be informed by
your understanding of the stages of your particular
research methods as well as the structure of your outputs.
This could be presented as a timetable, a gantt chart, a
list
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4. Step One: Overview
 Work backwards to form an overview of the research and the tasks you will
need to meet along the way:
 Deadlines
 Binding / Production set-up
 Editing
 Revising
 Writing/Making (chapters, sections / presentation, practice)
 Analysing
 Conducting primary research
 Reading
 Planning
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6. Step Two: Elaborate
 Clarify the outputs
 Clarify the overall process
 Simplify
 Before – Start – Middle – End
 Build up the detail of the process
 Tasks, relationship between tasks/stages
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7. Gantt Chart
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8. Step Three: Scheduling
 Add other key deadlines for other units
 Add any pinch points
 Add breaks
 Add tutorials
 Think about your weekly schedule, what days/times will
be best for doing these tasks?
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