Reference no: EM133928988 , Length: Word Count:1500

Developing the Research Proposal

Assessment - Background to research and significance of the research project

Learning Outcome 1: Justify the foundation of the research proposal in order to establish its significance in the scholarly research.
Learning Outcome 2: Clearly define and discuss the role of emergent propositions, concept modelling and frameworks in evidence-based research.

Topic: Ethical and Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Financial Risk Prediction and Decision-Making

Assessment Task
Assessment 1 requires you to write a 1,500 word report discussing your research problem, its background and significance, and situate it in the contemporary literature in your topic area. Articulating the significance of your research and its contributions to the research audience is a core skill for any researcher to develop. You are required to review the contemporary literature relating to your research inquiry, identify the areas of research required and develop your research problem. Your goal is to capture the literature comprehensively and use the literature to justify the relevance and importance of your research inquiry and the emergent propositions. Get expert online assignment help in the USA.

Context
Developing a research proposal involves a series of critical preparatory steps. To begin, there must be a clear understanding of what your research problem is. The research problem is the foundation of your research project. You must be able to demonstrate that the problem exists, it is relevant and significant and needs to be addressed. This requires you to situate your research inquiry in the literature. Through a comprehensive literature review, demonstrate the existence of the problem, list what work exists towards resolving the problem and point to research gap(s). Your research purpose, research questions, hypotheses and propositions will emerge from the gap.

Instructions
You are encouraged to explore the possibility of research areas and fields that are of interest to you and align with your current, or desired, area of specialisation, under the guidance of your Mentor or Learning Facilitator.
You have to come with a problem statement, wherein you need to articulate what is broken that needs fixing. Always remember it is not your place to fix the problem, your role is to describe the problem in full and propose through your research possible solutions for the problem.
Your articulated problem must be situated in the contemporary literature to demonstrate its existence, relevance, and importance.
NOTE: absence of research in the area can never be argued to be the problem.
Describe the problem and discuss how or why the problem exists.
Identify the stakeholders and how they are impacted and how they may benefit from this research project.
Evaluate the magnitude of the problem (unless the problem is of some magnitude, there may be no reason to even fix it)
Consider the consequences of not fixing the problem
Example areas of where a research problem might lie include (non-exhaustive):
Student behaviour issues
Educational pedagogies
Effective vaccination strategies
A new school of philosophy
Organisational studies and management
Technological disruption at work
Sustainability development strategies in your field(s)
Application of artificial intelligence in your field(s)

To prepare your report, follow the steps below.
Select 10 to 15 academic works in your research area (including journal articles, PhD dissertations and professional magazines) for reading and identify the problem statement (which may be explicit or implicit), and annotate the key conceptual ideas/models/methodologies/practices.
Synthesise these works to identify a research gap that you believe exists (it may well be that the gap does not exist in the form that you imagine and that is okay. You can always refine or tweak your problem statement as you learn more of the literature)
Generously use the contemporary literature (last 5 years) to prove that the problem area exists and that it has received recent research attention.
Describe the problem clearly. If necessary touch upon related areas.

Using data and/or research evidence, demonstrate the significance of the problem
List the stakeholders and how they are variously affected by the problem (positively or negatively).
Use data and/or research evidence to describe the consequences of not resolving the problem
Comprehensively discuss the recent research works that have attempted to resolve the problem or addressed areas around your specific research problem. Mention what these works set out to do, what they achieved, what they failed to achieve and why. In their failure or omission, ought to lie your "one sentence" research problem.
Your written discussion (1500 words) should be organised addressing the steps above:

Referencing
It is essential that you use appropriate APA style for citing and referencing.