Your research proposal must include the following:

1-Title page (your research question,)

2- Research question, rationale, aims and objectives

● a) Introduce your research question and provide the rationale (the significance of the research problem – why you chose your topic & question and why it is important. You must NOT include any personal accounts.)

• b) Aim(s) and objectives (steps to achieve aim/aims) in bullet point format (The research aim focus on what the research project is intended to achieve:

• how they can be able to challenge the stigma and discrimination attached to it within the society, community and within their own families as well as their siblings.

research objectives focus on how the aim will be achieved:

to identify key issues relating to discrimination and stigma attached to raising a child living with a disability within the community living in UK.

●Health service AND mental health department

3-Background and context

• (A summary of background information, key facts and recent debates on your topic. You can discuss relevant statistics, policy, legislation, and currently available research evidence [Brief summary of literature, supported by in-text citations (….), to clarify background/research and explain rationale for project).

4- Theory● (Your theory and its relevance to your topic): Theory chosen for your project and how this relates to your research question

(Add theoretical references: EG – Goffman on stigma and secondary literature; conceptualise ‘discrimination’)

5-Methodology

• a) Description of your method (one of the 4 methods) (Substantive literature review, content analysis, discourse analysis, desktop research) you are using (Why this one and none of the others?)

• b) Search criteria (database, search terms & Boolean operators used, types of material, period, language, geography, sample group – only applicable, etc. – could be in the form of inclusion/exclusion criteria)

• c) Ethics: What ethically relevant aspects are you going to encounter in the course of your project .

6-. Completion Plan

• (Table or Gantt chart format outlining dates and tasks)

7-. References (not included in the word count)

• (A minimum of 8 academic sources – only journal articles and books are counted)

** You must choose ONE of the following research methods for your project:

Substantive literature review, content analysis, discourse analysis, desktop research

You must use a minimum of 8 academic sources (i.e., peer-reviewed journal articles and academic books) in order to pass.

Your work must be Word processed, double spaced, Arial 11 Font. You must number the pages and you must also include a word count.