Survey project research statements  (formative)

This formative assessment activity provides an opportunity to explore otential ideas for your coursework.

Complete the following steps:
1. read the full specification of the module coursework and ensure you understand the time- line and required final deliverables
• Coursework 1: Survey project specification (30%)
• Coursework 2: Project final report (70%)

2. brainstorm three potential topics for a survey-based investigation
• these can be any topics that interest you, and that you can conceivably investigate by collecting and analysing survey response data
• conduct research into your topic
• Remove this line entirely

3. try to articulate your project ideas in terms of research objectives and research questions
• your research objectives should aim to explore and describe your chosen topic
• your research questions should be specific and realistic
• pay particular attention to the scope implied by different research questions you develop
• pay particular attention to the number of participants you might need in order to collect enough data to answer your questions (i.e. variables with lots of categories will need more people)
• aim for one or two general research objectives per topic, and three or four very specific research questions per topic
• This should be completely removed?

4. compare your ideas to the examples provided
• are your research statements wider or narrower in scope?
• does the topic of the survey require specific participants, or is it suitable for the general public?
• what kind of phenomena will the survey illuminate (individual human behaviour, social behaviours, structures or organisation, preferences or opinions, psychological concepts, financial trends etc .)?

• are there any potential ethical or privacy concerns with your topic?
Don’t worry if your ideas change and evolve over the next few weeks – that is a normal part of research. In the next topic you will choose one idea to develop in greater detail.

 Ideas
• Gaming behaviour: How many hours do people spend playing games? Gender? Age? What types of games?
• Social network usage: How much time spent on social media? How many posts per day? Connection with personality types?
• Health and fitness: Levels of exercise? Preferred methods of exercise? Age, gender, job type factors?
• Attitudes towards current affairs and world events.
• Generative Ai: Attitudes, Challenges or metric evaluations
• Look at YouGov for inspiration.