{"id":530,"date":"2023-10-20T10:44:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T09:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/?page_id=530"},"modified":"2024-02-26T16:28:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T16:28:26","slug":"your-research-topic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/dissertation\/your-research-topic\/","title":{"rendered":"Your research topic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this short guide to creating a research strategy:<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='560' height='315' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q162bSoOAb0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can also access the following resources to help create, define, and use your research topic to generate successful keywords and search strings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/methods-sagepub-com.chain.kent.ac.uk\/project-planner\">Sage research methods tool<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.umich.edu\/rq\/\">Research question development tool<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/71\/cochrane-interactive-learning\">Cochrane Interactive learning (useful for systematic reviews)<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/dissertation\/your-research-topic\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78432,"featured_media":0,"parent":363,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/530\/revisions\/580"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}