LIA Project Details QLM
Preliminary draft of the final project, can be subject to changes as the project progresses.
Tips for success
- Get organized early within the first 2 weeks of this course
- Jot down all important dates on your agenda
- Bring a laptop or notepad for class and take active notes to help your project
- Create a communication channel with your potential team members
Introduction to your LIA QLM Project
There are 6 stages in your final paper, with 3 presentations.
The objective is to provide you with feedback as you forward from one step to another.
Overview
Rules
You can build this project in teams of 2-4 provided you fully contribute to the project. Any members who do not contribute sufficiently will be asked to do the paper on their own at any point in the course.
Respecting the submission timeline, there are no exceptions made for late submissions. The submission will result in a grade of 0.
Format
Your research paper must follow the specific format provided, times new roman, 11 pt, single space.
References for official submission must be in APA format. Your presentation can be of any design.
Stage 1 - The Research Problem
At this stage, you will explore and discover multiple topics that interest you. You are also free to move forward with multiple topics at the same time.
Deliverables:
- Organize a template file
- Include a title page (1 page)
- Set up an automatic table of content so that the pages, titles are automatically generated (1 page)
- Executive Summary & Introduction (What are the 3 topics of your choice and a short sentence explaining why you value this topic, composition of your team, who are you, what major) (1 page)
- Define each topic via a short literature review and the plan as to how you will conduct your research (1 page for each topic, 3 pages total)
- References (draft references in APA format, keep track of all original sources)
The report should be no more than 7 pages
Stage 2 - Literature Review and Ethics of Research
At this stage, you will discover what current research has already done on your topic. There may be contradictions, there may be interesting angles for you to see.
Literature Review
What makes a good literature review?
A literature review allows you to look at what other researchers have already done on similar topics.
You want to bring out the key words within each article and put them as claim and argument to build up the relevance of your own research topic.
You will see here, a very extensive literature review: Ly_PhD_S2018.pdf
Feel free to browse a series of journal articles here: Indire Site for Open Innovation Research
Tips for Success
Be very organized when it comes to have your papers. I would suggest naming: S.Ly et al (2024) - Title of the article
Initials of the authors, year, title of the article.
If there are more than 3 authors, you can write "et al.". If there are 2 authors, include both names. S.Ly and B.Grohmann (2024) - Title of the article.
Ethics of Research
The Methodology sequence specially QL and RM, demand that students collect some data. Remember those ethical guidelines that are outlined here: https://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/psi/guidelines-for-teachers-whose-course-activities-involve-research-with-human-participants/.
You can find attached a few Ethics submissions Examples:
Coffee Experience Project (Nov 28)-Submission v.1.pdf
30004010 - Shang Ly - Certificate.pdf
Deliverables:
- Find 15 research papers linked to your topic
- Organize them by Author_Year_Title
- Build an Ethics Form similar to the one in the template: Coffee Experience Project (Nov 28)-Submission v.1.pdf
- Summarize and cite your literature review in no more than 2 pages.
Presentation Day:
*Please note that the research presentation has been pushed, there is no need for a presentation for this stage 1 and stage 2, only paper submissions.
You will be presenting stage 1 and stage 2. Your presentation can be of any design.
Here is the suggested format:
Slide 1 - Title with picture of each team member
Slide 2 - Introduction - What is your research about and why is it relevant?
Slide 3-5 - Literature Review - in visual forms - Be detailed
Slide 6 - Plan to carry forward your research
Slide 7 - References used in your presentation in list form
Slide 8 - Conclusion (Avoid thank you, tell us what you foresee the next steps will be, be convincing)
Stage 3 - Method and Sample
At this stage you will explore different ways researchers conduct research and select samples to get data from. You will then describe your own research, plan on how to execute the actual study.
Methodology
There are many ways to conduct qualitative research. The most popular way is to start with interviews to figure out what type of information participants are willing to share with you. Then, to look at other techniques that could allow you to get an answer.
For example: I am trying to figure out whether people at Vanier prefer Coke more or Pepsi and what do they say about Coke's latest advertisement.
From Mark Prentice - Qualitative Method
Qualitative data collection methods
- Interviews: Asking open-ended questions verbally to respondents.
- Focus groups: Discussion among a group of people about a topic to gather opinions that can be
used for further research.- Ethnography: Participating in a community or organization for an extended period of time to
closely observe culture and behavior.- Case Study: A case study is a detailed study of a specific subject, such as a person, group, place,
event, organization, or phenomenon. Case studies are commonly used in social, educational,
clinical, and business research.- Content Analysis: Content analysis is a research tool used to understand certain phenomena from
the presence of certain words, themes, or concepts within some given qualitative data (i.e. text).
Using content analysis, researchers can quantify and analyze the presence, meanings, and
relationships of such certain words, themes, or concepts.- Life History: Life histories are records of individuals’ personal experiences and the connections
between them and past social events, while auto/biography treats these accounts not as established
facts but as social constructions requiring further investigation and re-interpretation.
Historical Analysis: Historical research involves studying, understanding and interpreting past
events and phenomena. The purpose of historical research is to reach insights or conclusions about
past persons or occurrences. Historical research entails more than simply compiling and presenting
factual information; it also requires interpretation of the information.- Visual or Cultural Artifact Analysis: Researchers can learn a great deal about society by
analyzing cultural artifacts such as newspapers, magazines, television programs, or music. These
cultural artifacts, which can also be considered aspects of material culture, can reveal a great deal
about the society that produced them. Sociologists call the study of these cultural artifacts content
analysis
Sampling
Sampling or Data Collection is a careful process to ensure your collected data is not biased. And more often than not, that your question or presentation is not confusing to them. Different questions will generate different answers.
Deliverables:
- Brainstorm 5 different methods to conduct your research, write out the process (.5 pages each = 2.5 pages)
- Build a matrix on which would be best and provide you the most insight (1 page)
- Choose 2 that works best and begin detailing the process (1 page each)
- Plan to build a focus group interview with a group of 6 friends in advance (1 page for planning, 1 page for results)
- Describe your reality target population and how to conduct your research, define your sampling method (1 page)
This deliverable should be no more than 8 pages
Stage 4 - Data Collection/ Observational research
At this stage, you will execute your designed focus group as well as 2 other methodologies.
You will collect data and reason how to probably build an unbiased set of data, clean it and summarize your results.
Deliverables:
- Conduct your research Focus Group with 6 friends
- Conduct 2 other methodologies
- Build a raw vs. clean dataset
- Summarize in 2 pages with graphs of your results.
Stage 5 - Analysis of Results
At this stage, you should have preliminary results, it is now the time for you to tie your literature review, research problem together with the obtained results.
Deliverables:
- Revise your results
- Tie your results to your literature review
- Write up in 2 pages your results , and 2 pages your tied findings
Stage 6 - Conclusion
At this stage, bring everything together and look at the future outlook of this research and what you have contributed.
Deliverables:
- Finalize your paper
- Bring together your reference in APA format at the end of the document
- Review the paper
- Complete the coaching report by reading 2 other team’s papers and provide feedback