Drawing on what you have learned from your reading and assignments over the course of the semester, propose a full-fledged research project. You may utilize content from your previous assignments completed throughout the semester.

The proposal should be around 2500 words and include:

-An introduction, stating your research question (it’s ok if this has evolved over the semester), and explaining why it is interesting and important
-A review of the existing literature on this question, and how your research would add to that literature
-A “preliminary results” or “methodological preparation” section, reflecting what you learned from your pilot/practice projects
-A “proposed research” section laying out a specific, achievable research plan, including an explanation of why this research is the best possible way to answer your specific research question, realistic details on how you will gain access to your research site/interviewees/survey data, what you will do with them (ethnography for how long in what way ? What will you ask in interviews ? How will you analyze the survey data ? etc.)
-A limitations & challenges section where you anticipate possible challenges and limitations and explain how you hope to overcome them, or why they are not fatal flaws in your research design
-A conclusion explaining how the results of your research will add to the discipline of leadership studies and maybe even benefit society in some way

Book: Pajo, Introduction to Research Methods, SAGE Publishing, 2018. (I have attached the PDF version if you need it)