A pair of level-0 diagrams for a housing dissertation project: an illustration

A pair of diagrams [at level 0] for a housing dissertation project: an illustration on the theme of homelessness of baby boomers in Hong Kong


Diagram 1: A housing-concerns diagram on  homelessness of baby boomers in Hong Kong: level 0

Regarding Diagram 1, the five components are:
Component A: Profile of baby boomers in Hong Kong
Component B: Drivers of homelessness of baby boomers (HK)
Component C: Occurrence of homelessness of baby boomers in Hong Kong
Component D: Problem of quality of life of homeless baby boomers in Hong Kong
Component E: Negative impacts of baby boomer homelessness to the Hong Kong society Follow-up task: try to provide 3-4 relevant ideas (e.g., viewpoints, complaints, debating points and empirical observations) via study of local newspapers on components A to E above to make the nature of the components in diagram 1 [i.e. a set of related housing concerns] clear. [Sometimes, you cannot find much or any local information about a particular component from the Internet; in this case, you may be interested to do some own fact-finding for your dissertation project related to the component. Anyway, the academic literature may be able to offer you some generalized ideas related to the component concerned. So, you could still use these generalized ideas from the academic literature to describe the component in general terms. This is usually sufficient for initially justifying the chosen research topic and related research objectives.]


Diagram 2: A theoretical framework on homelessness of baby boomers in Hong Kong: level 0

The theoretical framework (re: Diagram 2) represents your intellectual response to examine and address your chosen set of housing concerns (as portrayed in Diagram 1). The theoretical framework provides the agenda for you to perform a focused literature review for your dissertation project.

[Also note that:
(a) the components in the core-focus domain make up: (i) your research objectives, i,e., research objective 1: to evaluate the homelessness conditions of HK baby boomers; research objective 2: to evaluate the personal and societal impacts of baby boomers homelessness in Hong Kong; research objective 3: to evaluate the available measures to alleviate the baby boomers homelessness problem in Hong Kong and (ii) the title of your proposal: "An evaluation of the homelessness conditions and impacts of the baby boomers in Hong Kong" and,
(b) your chosen intellectual response depends much on your profile of intellectual competence.]


Follow-up task: try to conduct literature review to provide 3-4 specific academic ideas / academic topics on components 1-5 of diagram 2 clear. You need to pay more attention to do literature review to include extra useful academic ideas for components 3-5 as they make up the core-focus domain of your theoretical framework. The main source for the literature review is academic journals related to your theme of homelessness of baby boomers.