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Conference paper advice

  • 24-08-2016 10:58pm
    #1
    positivenote
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    HI All,
    I've had an abstract accepted for a conference in John Moores Liverpool and I have to present for 20mins on my research. Im looking for advice on which way to go about this as im still only at the Lit review stage of my PhD research and havent conducted any empirical research or had any findings as yet. I stated that the research is on-going in the abstract that was accepted but im just wondering if anyone has suggestions on how to structure a presentation on research I have yet to actually conduct.
    Traditionally I would have considered the following as a suitable structure:
    Intro - Research Question/Theoretical Framework - Methodology/case study - Existing research in the field - Data/Results/Findings - Discussion/analysis of these - Conclusion

    any opinions would be great.
    Thanks


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  • #2
    Tom Dunne
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    One angle I would take is the contribution to the body of knowledge- what makes your study unique? What's your angle?

    Can you say much on the data/results/findings? Are you in danger of pre-empting your data? As in "I expect to find x".


  • #3
    positivenote
    Registered Users Posts: 2,334 ✭✭✭positivenote


    Tom Dunne wrote: »
    One angle I would take is the contribution to the body of knowledge- what makes your study unique? What's your angle?

    Can you say much on the data/results/findings? Are you in danger of pre-empting your data? As in "I expect to find x".

    cheers,
    yeah since there has been no empirical research done there are no findings and any pre-empting would of course undermine the research as a whole. The format ive listed above would be the approach that I would have taken when giving previous papers having conducted research, but this is research that is in the early stages of development. Basically i'm looking at advice on what to present and I think highlighting the niche that my research will fill could be an angle I could take.
    thanks


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