Research Question

Research Question

v  You have an expectation of the answer (base on previous research)

v  ‘Hypothesis-testing’ or ‘confirmatory research’

v  Past research gives conflicting results

v  Current theories suggest opposite conclusions

v  There genuinely is no past research or theory bearing on this, even remotely

v  You have simply omitted to find or read the relevant background

v  Ethnographic research involves RQs rather than RHs because it goes along.

v  New RQs; add an element in a classical project by including in the Method opportunities to gather data not just related to the prestated RQs and RHs, but with the potential to ‘find’ new RQs.