In the beginning of the subject it was difficult to determine a research topic that was both interesting and could be done in the short time frame of the semester. It was surprisingly time consuming finding a topic that fit these two criteria. The lab session in class was useful in explaining how you can …
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Research Proposal
The main comments I received about my research were suggestions toward particular ways I could add complexity to my analysis. It was suggested that rather than just investigating the effect of advertisement, education and price has on alcohol consumption in Australia, I could also investigate this effect for different alcohol types. It was also suggested …
Literature Review
This week I’ve been mostly preoccupied with the literature review for my research proposal. I’ve done my best to research the most relevant and up to date papers that have been published in the same field as my topic area. There is a growing amount of research being conducted in the area of consumption of …
Refining the Research Topic
Continuing on from last week the goal has been to reach a point of focus within the research topic. The idea from last week was to conduct an analysis on the long run effects of education and price on alcohol consumption patterns nationally and then compare these results across countries. This was to figure out …
Embarking on the research journey
In the past three weeks of research the biggest challenge that has been faced thus far has been finding a research gap. It has been difficult to find an appropriate area of research that can be both completed in the short time period of 13 weeks and provide new information to an area of interest. …
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