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The Long Way

Becoming a Researcher

One complete course for the doctoral and self-directed research journey, from deciding to research to defending what you found. Six parts, thirteen modules, built slowly and free.

Why Research, and Why It's Hard

  1. What Research Actually Is
  2. Why Rigor Matters
  3. The Research Process, Step by Step
  4. Where Most Researchers Get Stuck

Becoming a Creator of Knowledge

  1. The Doctoral Shift
  2. What Counts as Original
  3. The Doctoral Landscape
  4. The Journey and Its Gates

Getting Started with Your Research Question

  1. What a Research Problem Actually Is
  2. Choosing a Framework
  3. Writing a Proper Research Question
  4. Common Mistakes to Avoid

Knowing Your Sources

  1. The Landscape of Sources
  2. How Peer Review Actually Works
  3. Predators and Impostors
  4. Judging What You Read

Searching Systematically

  1. Building the Search
  2. Following the Citation Trail
  3. Keeping the Record
  4. Knowing When to Stop

Reviewing Literature

  1. Narrative, Systematic, and Scoping Reviews
  2. The PRISMA 2020 Standard
  3. The Literature Matrix
  4. Building the Argument

How You Know What You Know

  1. Ontology, Epistemology, and Axiology
  2. The Four Worldviews
  3. Deductive, Inductive, and Abductive Reasoning
  4. Choosing Your Approach

Designing the Study

  1. Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Approaches
  2. Research Strategies
  3. Sampling
  4. Time Horizons

Research Ethics

  1. The Belmont Principles
  2. Getting Approval
  3. Organizations and Sensitive Data
  4. Reflexivity

The Researcher's Operating System

  1. The Research Journal
  2. The Reference Manager
  3. Integrating the System
  4. Sustaining the System

Supervision and the Gates

  1. Working with Your Supervisor
  2. Meeting Discipline
  3. The Confirmation Review, In Practice
  4. Surviving the Middle Years

Writing and Defending

  1. Thesis Structure
  2. Writing Alongside Research
  3. The Viva
  4. Handling Corrections

Entering the Conversation

  1. Publishing Your Work
  2. Choosing a Journal Wisely
  3. Metrics and Their Limits
  4. Conferences as Testing Grounds