Design Research Dissertation - Projects

28/08/19 - 1/12/19 (Week 1 - 14)
Azmina Fathima Haris (0337113)
Design Research Dissertation
Projects

INSTRUCTIONS



Week 1 
(28/08/19)

We were briefed about our progression this semester and how submissions and feedback would be carried out. For next week, we were told to create a short presentation to give an overview of our work and research findings from last semester.

Week 2
(4/09/19)

This class, we went through our research from the research methodology module and Ms. Anis and Dr. Pouline guess us feedback at the end. Below is my presentation -



Draft Dissertation 

Week 3 
(08/09/19)

This week, we had to work on the introduction of the dissertation, including the research objectives,  research questions and problem statement.



Week 4
(15/09/19)

After making required amendments to the introduction, we began working on the literature review.



Week 5
(25/09/19)

This week we worked on the methodology section of  our dissertation. We were first shown samples on how to go about explaining it and we also consulted with Dr. Pouline on how to organise the section.



Week 6
(15/09/19)

We started working on the findings and discussion section this week. We first consulted with Dr. Pouline about we were going to organise our findings.



Week 7
(06/10/19)

After an online class we were shown samples for the conclusion and recommendations section, we had to work on the submission over this week.



Project 2

Week 7 - 10

Over these weeks, we focused on the design of the publication and turning it into an ebook as well. Link to ebook.



Final project 

Week 11 - 14

After submitting our hardcopies of  our book, we started working on adapting it into a journal format. We were asked to look into suitable journals and prepare rationales while keeping the author's guidelines in mind.

Rationale -



Author's Guidelines -







https://www.elsevier.com/journals/poetics/0304-422x/guide-for-authors

Research for Publication -



FEEDBACK 

Week 2
Ms. Anis commented my research findings were interesting and Dr. Pouline advised me to break down my research question into two as it would be impossible to answer both with two different research objectives. But otherwise, I was ready to start writing my dissertation.

Week 3
I was told to revise and reword my research objectives and research questions.

Week 4
Dr. Pouline said I did a good job with my literature review and said I could proceed to working on the Methodology.