A Spatial View of Planning and Policy Approaches to Support Economic Development in Marginalized Townships.
Write an abstract of no more than 150 words, describing your research problem and research
purpose.
Develop your own research question or research aim and formulate no more than four
research sub-questions or research objectives.
Discuss the ontological and epistemological approach of your study.
Select a research approach and research design appropriate for your research question or aim
and motivate for its selection.
Explain the advantages and disadvantages of the approach and design for your specific study
(contextualisation and specification is important).
Develop and discuss a data collection plan for your study. This includes various data collection
methods (interview, document analysis, questionnaire, etc), participants and sampling. Justify
your choices for your specific study, and discuss potential challenges you may face when
collecting the data and how you will respond to them.
Based on your research question and sub-questions (research aim and objectives), develop an
interview schedule (10-15 questions) or questionnaire (10-15 items – excluding demographic
information). Where applicable, develop an observation guide/schedule.