Research method design considerations for housing dissertation work: some guidelines

Research method design considerations for housing dissertation work: some guidelines:

1. Your overall research methodology, comprising a set of research methods, should be anchored onto a specific research philosophy (more than one research philosophy with clear theoretical perspective switching indicated).

2. Your specific research method should be clearly responsive to one or more research objectives; you may have to indicate which part of your research method is related to which specific research objective.

3. Your specific research method should be clearly indicated to be informed by your writer's voice based on specific literature review findings.

4. Your research method design should be concrete in details, in terms of when, where, how and whom, etc..

5. Your research method design should be evaluated in terms of research method criteria, such as reliability, internal validity, external validity, feasibility and relevance, etc.

6. All your research methods should be depicted in a flow chart so that their sequence and task dependence are clearly indicated. Such task sequence (as shown in the flow chart) needs to be justified to be reasonable, feasible, triangulation-supported and logical.

Furthermore,

A research method could be primary in nature (i.e., involves primary data gathering) or secondary in nature (i.e. involves secondary data gathering). It should also cover data analysis methods to be employed to examine the data so gathered by the research method. 

A research method can be quantitative or qualitative in nature.