Introduction to Research Methodology

Welcome to this session on 'Introduction to Research'.

In this session

You will learn about business research and understand why it is important. Further, you will learn how to create a state-of-the-art research objective for your research.

This session will mainly focus on the following topics:

1. What is research?
2. Significance of research
3. Characteristics of research
4. SMART objective framework
5. Choosing a research topic
6. Good research question 

People you will hear from in this session

Chris Oates

Adjunct Faculty, upGrad

Chris founded Two Lanterns Advisory, a political risk consultancy, whose clients include the Department of Defence and some financial institutions, and Legislata, a software tool for elected officials.

Chris has also served as a Senior Advisor to Voter Choice 2020 and worked at Oxford Analytica, a political and economic research firm. Chris has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Oxford and a BA from Brown University and lectures at a university in the US.

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