Friday, 30 April 2010

Research Outline admin forms

Working on the admin forms to go with my research outline. Ethics statements etc. Main issue would seem to be maintaining confidentiality. Data Protection etc. I don't think there's too much to say, but I could be proved wrong when it's discussed with supervisors. Just makes me want to be able to actually get on with some proper data collection.

Friday, 16 April 2010

Work on research outline continues...

Well, I met my supervisors yesterday to disucss my draft research outline. There is still further work to do, but not as much as I thought. Mainly need to sort out the variables - the dependent variable is going to be perceptions of the effectiveness of EU democracy promotion now, to get around the problem of how to measure effectiveness itself. Also, for the independent variables I need to say how I am going to classify them. And the methods section needs rewriting... So, actually quite a lot to do over the next few weeks!