Research Proposal. During the course of the semester, you will complete a 3-section proposal, you will be submitting the project in several small pieces:
- Project Memo
- Problem Description & Research Questions.
- Brief Literature Review.
- Study Design & Research Ethics.
- Revised Project.
- Problem Description & Research Questions
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In this first paper, you will need to identify a social problem for your research inquiry. Your social problem should be relevant to social work and the transcultural perspective. Although this is a draft, you should put forth your best effort in order to receive useful feedback. In 3-4 pages (not including a cover page or references) you should:
- Define the social problem and any related terms (e.g. social support, child maltreatment, substance abuse, etc…). State the nature and scope (how many and how much) of the problem using statistics and figures (and supported by high-quality evidence). For example, if you want to conduct a study on the relationship between substance use and physical abuse by parents, your social problem is physical abuse/child maltreatment. You should provide statistics on how many children are victims of physical abuse as well as information about the short and long-term consequences of abuse for children. You might want to also describe the financial cost of physical abuse to society.
- End this section by describing the search/research question that will focus your literature search. Narrow the scope of your problem to relate to your research/search questions. Explain your research idea and state why it is important to social work practice/research. Describe your research/search questions and any hypotheses (if appropriate).
For example, you might write, “Parental substance use appears to be a risk factor for child maltreatment (include citations). However, little is known about whether the use of specific drugs is related to child maltreatment. Understanding how parental use of specific drugs is associated with different types of maltreatment could help focus interventions where they are needed the most. In this study, I plan to examine….”
- Optional- state any outstanding questions or concerns you have about your topic and research questions. What specific feedback are you looking for?
Template for the paper: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QeNjJDEqV0FDnkW7D9jyW-IzFa7a7ptI7LA_Fr50HvQ/edit?usp=sharing