Data Collection Strategies
Briefly sketch out your case selection and/or sampling strategies, and the type of data/evidence you are going to collect.
Data Analysis Strategies
What are the most appropriate forms of analysis given you topic, research question(s) and data sources? How does this analytic method help answer your question(s)? For example, are you coding qualitative analysis for themes or using logistic regression? Note: software is not a method.
Anticipated Outcomes
Briefly discuss what you think you will find. Where will these findings have impact and how: academic literature? Policy? Practice? Public life?
Limitations and Further Research
Briefly address the limitations of your design as currently conceived. For example, you may have limitations in your research design such as generalizability or causality. Or, reliability and validity are common limitations. Another limitation may be ethical issues that arise from your research design. There are different kinds of limitations.
