This article provides comprehensive guidelines for writing a PhD thesis proposal for PhD students but it can also benefit masters students as well. It is a collation of previous articles written on...

This article is the first of a series of posts that focus on quantitative research. I introduce basic statistics in this article because if your PhD thesis will use quantitative research methods,...

When you are a PhD student, you are expected to have numerous meetings in the course of your PhD programme. Most of these meetings will be with your supervisor, and some with committee members and...

Qualitative research involves primary data collection hence adequate planning of the fieldwork both before and during the data collection stage is critical. This post highlights some of the...

There are many sampling strategies that can be used when conducting research. The sampling strategies vary depending on whether the study is qualitative or quantitative. This post discusses the...

Qualitative research has gained recognition in the last few years and researchers have come to acknowledge that it is in no way inferior to quantitative research but rather that each of these...