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- [Instructor] This is part
two of the video lecture

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on research design.

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Now I'm going to walk you
through the basic elements,

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or the building blocks
of a proposal design.

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So these are the things that
you will usually include

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in a proposal.

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Very often, you will be responding
to what's called an RFP,

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a Request for Proposals.

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So funder, in my case it
very often tends to be USDA,

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puts out an RFP and says,

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we are looking for researchers
to submit proposals

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that will do research
on these kinds of areas.

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And then I, it's part of
my job to respond to those

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to bring in money, which helps
pay for graduate students

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and helps basically to pay for
the expenses of my research.

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Maybe I travel,

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paying research subjects,

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eventually paying page charges
for peer-reviewed articles.

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All those things may be in the budget.

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Basically, this is how you
ask for money to do research.

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So I'm gonna walk through
each of these things,

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but here are the building blocks.

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So you start with a problem or objective.

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You say, what are you studying?

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You (murmurs) probably
will wanna make a good case

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of why is it worth studying?

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So what?

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What's the problem that it addresses?

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How does it contribute to knowledge?

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So you wanna make clear up front,

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this is the problem
that I'll be addressing,

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this is the objective, this
is what I hope to accomplish.

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As we did in this class,

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you wanna do a really good lit review.

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So you wanna walk through what
have prior studies learned?

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What do we know? How did they do it?

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And where are the gaps?

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And an important thing
is you want to position

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your research objectives to fill a gap

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that you identify in the lit review.

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You wanna walk through the subjects.

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Who are you going to
collect data from, and why?

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Next, you wanna talk about the methods.

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First, how will you collect data?

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Are you doing surveys?

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Are you doing interviews?

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Are you analyzing secondary data?

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But it's very important that your methods

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link very clearly to your objectives.

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And you can see that the reader can see

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if the researcher successfully
executes these methods,

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the objectives that they
state in the beginning

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will be filled.

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Next, you want to walk through

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how are you going to analyze data?

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So you want there to be a logical flow.

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You want to assure the reader
that your methods are sound

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and especially will
achieve the research goals

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that the analysis will give results

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which will fill that gap
and meet the objective.

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Next, you're gonna wanna talk
about the dissemination plan.

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How are you going to
communicate the results?

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It might be that you'll
do a report to the funder.

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In many cases, in my world,

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you wanna do a scholarly journal article.

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You might do presentations,
develop a toolkit to outreach,

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but you want to talk
about how that is done.

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And finally, you want to have a schedule.

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So you want to use a
Gantt chart like this,

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where you map out what are the activities

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that you'll be doing,
and when do you do them?

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Near the end of the proposal,

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you're gonna want to include a budget,

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and here are some of the items
that you will often find.

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Personnel costs for those researchers

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who are going to work on it.

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Travels costs to collect data,

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to meet with project partners,

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to present results, subject compensation,

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so if you're paying
your research subjects,

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you often have to pay to publish

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or to do any outreach of your results

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and then materials and supplies.

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So the key takeaways here

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are the time dimension and
options of how we measure

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and the design components of a proposal.

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This is the end of part two.

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This is the last part of this,

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so please make sure to do the assessment

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before we watch this in class, thank you.