Your research topic

Whether writing a dissertation, assignment, or research project you will firstly need to identify your research methods before searching for books, journals, articles, and data.

Watch this short guide to creating a research strategy:

You can also access the following resources to help create, define, and use your research topic to generate successful keywords and search strings:

• Sage research methods tool

• Research question development tool

• Cochrane Interactive learning (useful for systematic reviews)