SCS 2150 Lecture 4: SCS2150 – Sept 20, 2016

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: SCS 2150
• Professor: Hope Mac Lean

Document Summary

What are other influences on doing research: external politics, funding. Gatekeepers: who control access to organizations or people, e. g. If you are doing research at a school, the principle may be the gatekeeper: sometime are hidden individuals. How do we start doing research: picking a topic, defining a question, reviewing the literature. Research question: a research question states the purpose of the study in the form of a question, research questions should be: Be linked or closely related to each other. Allow the researcher to make a contribution to existing knowledge.