A Topic is Not a Question: How to Design a Research Question

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Determining a field or concentration for your research may be easy enough, but how do you transform a topic of interest into a specific and compelling research question? In this interactive workshop/work session we will discuss the qualities of successful research questions and why the advice to “just keep narrowing it down” can do more harm than good. Whether you are working toward a dissertation project, putting together a master’s thesis proposal, or setting out on some other research journey, this is the workshop for you!

OPD events are open to current UMass graduate students and postdocs. Register here!