Open & Networked PhD Candidacy

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Methodology


Completion of a PhD requires a significant reseach project or major contribution to your chosen knowledge domain.

Describe your existing proven research skills and abilities or how you intend on developing critical thinking and research skills. The main point is to have the required research skills and knowledge to successfully complete a PhD level of work. If you don't already have these skills, how are you going to develop them.

Provide a summary of the research methodologies you believe are applicable to your area of research. This list may change or be narrowed to one as your research project is clarified and has been reviewed by your peers and mentors.


Provide the following to complete this task;

  • Evidence toward your proven research skills, or
  • A learning plan to develop the required research skills.
  • A summary of the applicable research methodologies and how they would apply to your research endeavour.
  • Evidence of a preparedness to follow ethical boundaries in research work, with a process that obtains formal clearance deemed ideal, given the scope of your project.


Provide a link to this in this tasks discussion thread.

Task Discussion


  • Yves Simon said:

    Already developed in my PhD portfolio I will provide more details later.

    on Dec. 14, 2014, 8:07 a.m.

  • Peter Rawsthorne said:

    This is what I see as the tasks required to complete the learning I require to become a competent PhD level researcher. The following is how I will approach the three tasks identified in this OnPhD Candidacy Challenge task;

    1. Learning plan to develop research skills;

    1. Readings - read two books on research methods. One on educational research methods and the other on big data computational research methods. The two books could be;
      1. Research Methods in Education
      2. Research Methods in Software Engineering
    2. OER - seek out an open educational resource focused on research methods. Review these two Open Courseware's from MIT;
    3. Identify and Review - Identify a number of research projects similar to the one I am intending, and do an in-depth review of approaches, analysis methods, etc...
    4. Volunteer - as a research assistant on a similar research project as my current thesis project.

    2. Applicable research methodologies;

    This will be completed as I finish the first task of developing my research skills.

    3. Commitment to ethical boundaries within my research;

    This will be developed as I complete the first task in developing my research skills. And by working through all the modules found in the research ethics site created by elsevier; http://ethics.elsevier.com/index.asp

    on May 28, 2013, 12:13 a.m.

    Leigh Blackall said:

    This looks to be a good and achievable plan Pete. Simply put easy to understand. I notice now there is a 'give badge' link next to the 'reply' button here. Does this connect in Credly or is it within P2PU? Which should we use?

    on May 28, 2013, 5:32 a.m. in reply to Peter Rawsthorne

    Peter Rawsthorne said:

    The give badge button does not link to the credly site. If you want to issue a badge to someone for completing this task you need to go to the credly site. https://credly.com/give/1093

    Thanks for your support...

    on May 28, 2013, 9:07 a.m. in reply to Leigh Blackall

  • Leigh Blackall said:

    More work to be done for this task, but here's a start: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Leighblackall/PhD#Methodologies

    on Jan. 12, 2013, 5:53 a.m.