Research and Engagement Design

A Research and Engagement Design should reflect your answers to the following questions:

• What do you most want to see happening in your project in the time until it has to be submitted?
  ("Happening" refers both to process and content. It includes, but should not be limited by, who you might be able to influence and what you hope to influence them to do, i.e., your audience and purpose. Take note of your evolving Governing Question.)
• What things might be blocking you from realizing this vision?
• What can you do to deal with the obstacles and realize the vision—what new directions do you need to move in?
• What achievable steps would move you in these directions?

You will have already done this if you completed the whole personal strategic planning process. If you have only done the practical vision stage or used some other process of reflection, you will need to do some brainstorming.

In the design restate your title and Governing Question. Check: Do they match each other? Do they dictate what you actually have to do? Revise them if needed.
The design may be in note form provided you make evident the reasons for the sequence of steps you include.

Sequence of Steps

Map out your research onto the weeks ahead—be more specific about the immediate future. Check whether the steps you propose allow you to fulfill your purpose, answer your Governing Question, address the Component Propositions. Check whether the sequence works—when you get to any step will have you completed the preparation necessary for you to undertake that step?

(see Phase E)