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PHD Proposal Outline

The document outlines the required sections for a research proposal for a PhD position in the Department of Architecture. The proposal should include: [1] a provisional title introducing the research theme or concept, [2] a 2-3 line description of the general research disposition, [3] the motivating research questions, [4] a summary of current findings, [5] an analysis of the research problématique, [6] the disciplinary approach, [7] the research significance and audience, [8] a critical bibliography, and [9] an optional addendum. The first draft proposal should be no more than 2500 words excluding the bibliography and addendum.

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PHD Proposal Outline

The document outlines the required sections for a research proposal for a PhD position in the Department of Architecture. The proposal should include: [1] a provisional title introducing the research theme or concept, [2] a 2-3 line description of the general research disposition, [3] the motivating research questions, [4] a summary of current findings, [5] an analysis of the research problématique, [6] the disciplinary approach, [7] the research significance and audience, [8] a critical bibliography, and [9] an optional addendum. The first draft proposal should be no more than 2500 words excluding the bibliography and addendum.

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Outline Research Proposal

Application PhD Position. Department of Architecture

The research proposal should include the following:

I. Title : This will naturally be provisional – the nature of the title


is simply to introduce others, in the most general way, to the project
thematic or concept.

II. Theme : Two or three lines that function like an architectural


sketch – meaning that you communicate the general disposition of the
research but do not yet explain in specificity the issues that the
research will ultimately address, resolve, or seek to illuminate.

III. Motivating Question(s): The thesis questions are used to express


the primary motivations behind your project. If carefully formulated,
the questions can clearly and succinctly introduce the aims and
ambitions of your research.

IV. Summary of research: Presents the primary findings of your current


research.

V. Research problématique: By the term problématique – we mean a set of


inter-related conditions that are at once facilitating and limiting; or, ‘the
particular unity of a theoretical formation’. The problématique offers
critical insight into the position which you have so far taken with your
thesis. It is also one of the defining factors that separates a Master
level proposal from a Doctoral level proposal.

VI. Disciplinary Approach: A statement which introduces the manner in


which you approach your research subject (or object); and this from a
view towards the disciplinary (or cross/ or inter/ or trans-
disciplinary) situated-ness in which you currently believe your research
to belong.

VII. Research significance: This puts forward an explanation of why it


is that you believe this research is relevant and original. It can also
include a comment as to who you believe your 'audience' to be.

VIII. Bibliography: The bibliography is critical: please indicate in


some manner which works have been engaged and those which have not.

IX. Addendum: This can include anything you find relevant to advancing a
clear picture of yourself as a potential PhD candidate – an example
might be a published text.

Document Length: The 1st Draft proposal, as outlined above, should be


limited to no more than +/- 2500 words (exclusive bibliography &
addendum).

This document has been last revised in August 2010


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