Share Paper: How to design questions for design research

  1. Johannes Cronje, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa
  2. Franci Cronje, Vega School of Brand Communication, South Africa

Abstract: A frequently-encountered weakness in graduate research studies is a discrepancy between the aim of the research and the actual research questions. Frequently the promise made in the introduction of a thesis is not fulfilled by the time the conclusion is written. This workshop uses an adaptation of Burrell & Morgan’s four paradigms of social science research from which a set of research questions can be derived that will ensure that what a student sets out to do is aligned with the research questions, so that the research methodology can be derived from that. The highly interactive workshop calls on each ...