Tag: narrative-research

My colleague and I spent a couple of months developing some short videos which introduce some of the most common business research designs for the University of Worcester Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) program. Research design can be tricky subject to teach and discuss; indeed, scholars cannot even agree on what it entails and some term it research strategy. A (positive) challenge that we had on the DBA was covering enough research designs to support the cohort. We started off by only discussing four research designs in detail as part the Research Design and Methods module, however, as the program grew, we found that there was a desire to adopt a wider range of research designs as part of doctoral research. This gradual expansion led to challenges adequately fitting in all the research designs people were interested in. To enable us to undertake learning activities and discuss the practical application of each research design in the classroom, we adopted a flipped classroom approach. Providing an introduction to research designs video, and then a short video giving a background and summary of nine different research designs, which offered the foundation for further discussion and application in class. The nine research designs discussed have all been utilised by doctoral researchers on Worcester’s DBA program and include case studies, narrative research, interpretative phenomenological analysis, action research, Delphi research, ethnography, Q methodology, fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), and survey research. The video playlist is publicly available to support others who are interested and can be accessed here.