Course web link: https://upskilldevelopment.com/postgraduate-proposal-and-thesis-development-mentorship-course

Introduction
Post graduate students taking either a Master’s degree or a Doctor of Philosophy degree are mostly faced with challenges in developing an academic proposal and thesis/dissertation. Some of the challenges are experienced on choosing the topic of the study, literature review, coming up with problem statement, data analysis method and the appropriate software for quantitative and qualitative data. This research mentorship course aim at improving research knowledge and skills, proposal and thesis/dissertation quality as well as quantity and quality of journal articles publishable in refereed journals emerging from postgraduate student’s research work.

Duration
10 days

Who should attend?
o Post graduate students who have just finished course work and are working on their project and thesis proposals

o Post graduate students who have are about to collect data

o Postgraduate students who have collected data and are in the process of analyzing it

o Postgraduate students who want to publish their research work

Course objective
The objective of this course is to guide participant on a step by step process of developing an academic proposal, thesis or dissertation or a scientific paper for publishing in a referred journal. At the end of the training, the participants will be able to;

o Learn how to choose a research topic,

o Know how to do literature review without plagiarism

o Understand useful tips on how to write a problem statement

o Know how to develop specific, measurable, achievable and realistic research objectives

o Understand both quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research designs

o Learn different sampling techniques and sample size determination

o Learn different data collection methods

o Learn data analysis methods (Descriptive statistics and inferential statics)

o Identify fundamental style for developing a journal article for publication in a refereed journal

Modules to be covered

Click the course web link to view course outline and register to attend: https://upskilldevelopment.com/postgraduate-proposal-and-thesis-development-mentorship-course