PhD Proposal Layout

Context:

• Intorduction 200
• Describe your own work and interests and how you have persuade them so far 300
• Need for the project: gap in the knowledge give evidence 200
• current relevant thinking: Outline theoretical underpinnings of the proposal 300
• summarise existing knowledge relevant to the project 300

Project aim or research question: express your investigation as a question, which is relevant, manageable, sustainable and original 100

Project objectives: list specific, achievable goals to the project, in terms of what it will do or provide; this should relate to what you have said in your context 100

Project Methods: explain exactly what you are proposing to do. Where appropriate identify the types of research methods you are using 1000

The value of the proposed work: state how the project will address the problem outlined in your context section, or contribute to wider research, say who will benefit 1000

Outcome with timeline: list major milestones of the project and give a realistic estimate of how long each will take to achieve, this should relate directly to your methods section and be expressed in months not weeks