GLD Research Seminar: Framing A Research Project
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- GLD’s research seminar series provides an introduction to the research process. In this session: Lauren Honig, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston College, discusses how to effectively and compellingly frame a research question. She breaks down what it means to frame a research question and why effective framing is critical to the research proposal process. Lauren offers advice on how to brainstorm major questions or debates within the field to identify your research contribution and how to narrow down the focus of your framing. She provides examples of how to structure your research to clearly signal your scholarly contribution and the broader implications of your findings.
About the presenter:
Lauren Honig is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston College. She researches the comparative political economy of development with a focus on the politics of property rights, the roles of informal and customary institutions, and state-citizen linkages in African countries. Several of her current research projects examine land rights and plural
systems of authority. This includes her book, Land Politics: How Customary Institutions Shape State Building in Zambia and Senegal (2022, Cambridge University Press). Her research has been published or is forthcoming in Perspectives on Politics, African Affairs, American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics, Democratization, the Journal of Politics, and World Development. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Fulbright Council, and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), among others. She has a Ph.D. from Cornell University.
Readings:
Przeworski, A., & Salomon, F. (1995). The Art of Writing Proposals. Brooklyn, NY: Social Science Research Council.
Geddes, B. (2003). “Big Questions, Little Answers: How the Questions You Choose Affect the Answer You Get,” in Paradigms and Sand Castles: Theory Building and Research Design in Comparative Politics. University of Michigan Press, pp. 27-48.
