Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Qualification of researchers
This consists of summaries of researchers’ experience, education,
publications, and research activities of individuals who will work
on the proposed project.
It is customary to begin with the principal investigator and then
to the co-investigators.
Reasons Why Research Proposals may Fail
1. Aims and objectives are unclear or vague.
2. There is a mismatch between the approach being adopted and
the issues to be addressed
3. The overall plan is too ambitious and difficult to achieve in the
timescale
4. Lack of enough in-depth background research.
5. Problem is of insufficient importance
6. Information about the data collection is insufficiently detailed.
7. Time scale inappropriate or unrealistic
8. Resources and budget have not been carefully thought out.
9. The topic has been done too many times before – indicates a
lack in background research.