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Note that this proposal assessment forms the foundation of your Project (SH6P03). A tweaked version of your proposal will form the basis for your chapter 1 & 2 in the Project.  For your first supervision meeting in February 2020, you are required to present a printed copy of your marked proposal, including the feedback given to your Project supervisor. 

 You must address all headings listed in this template in essay format. 

What is the main question / statement you wish to answer/ explore?

Have you included a specific health issue, target population and context (location) in your research question / statement?

Have you considered the appropriate policies/ strategies/interventions, and time frames?

Have you provided background information of important historical and contextual events/ research which informs the reader about why and how the health issue you are interested in exists as a problem?

Have you evidenced the health issue with relevant statistics showing the nature and extent of the problem including past and current statistical variation in terms of age, sex, geography and ethnicity supported by relevant literature sources? What other studies have been conducted and what is their relevance to your research topic?  Have you identified and given a brief overview of the policy/ strategy or policies/ strategies whose outcomes in terms of interventions you will critical assess in the project?  Why is this research topic important to your field of practice?   Have you presented a Justification Statement? i.e.  objectively justifying the research topic using relevant literature sources?

Does the aim of the study resonate with your research question/ statement?

What are the objectives of the study? (Identify 4 objectives.  The first objective should focus on epidemiology i.e. prevalence of the health issue & the last one should focus on the impact of policy/ strategy initiatives put in place to tackle the health issue). Overall, all objectives should be geared towards addressing the aim of the study.

If considering conducting Secondary Research you are required to address the following: 

Have you explained the selected methodological approach- i.e. secondary research versus primary research? Have you discussed the strengths and limitations of selected methodological approach supported by relevant literature?

Have you justified the selected methodology approach supported by relevant literature?

Literature Search Strategy

How will you conduct your literature search, i.e. literature search strategy?

What search engines will be used to search for the literature?

What academic data bases will be accessed?

What organizations, if any will be accessed for literature?

What relevant key words and Boolean operators will be used in the literature search?

What is your literature search exclusion and inclusion criteria and have you justified it?

If considering conducting Primary Research, you required to address the following:

Have you explained the selected methodological approach-i.e.  Primary versus secondary research?

Have you discussed the strengths and limitations of selected methodological approach supported by relevant literature?

Have you justified the selected methodology approach supported by relevant literature?

Have you explained your:  a) Data collection methods b) Study participants (including Sampling techniques -how you will recruit them?) c) Data analysis method

Have you justified the data collection method/s & analysis method and supported this with relevant literature?

Literature Search Strategy

How will you conduct your literature search, i.e. literature search strategy?

What search engines will be used to search for the literature

What academic data bases will be accessed?

What organizations, if any will be accessed for literature?

What relevant key words and   Boolean operators will be used in the literature search?

What is your literature search exclusion and inclusion criteria and have you justified it?

AND

Whether you are considering conducting Secondary Research or Primary Research, you must consider ethical issues in relation to studies being reviewed; ethical issues pertaining to the ‘literature reviewer identity – such as scholarly practice, integrity, respecting rights, dignity and diversity; avoiding plagiarism, falsification and misrepresentation of data etc; at least 2 areas of ethical tensions/ conflicts  arising from the  government interventions (this is based on the policies / strategies you identified) relating to your topic area

Have you identified specific targets/ actions for completion within specific time frames? (e.g.  a table with two columns and list your targets/ actions and timeframes, i.e. specific dates.

Consider time for supervision sessions and acting on feedback within proposed time table