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Training Workshop Report
“Writing Research Proposal Workshop"
13thApril 2017
Directorate of Planning and Studies
Al Buraimi Governorate
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Table of Content
Page Content 3 Summary of Workshop
4 Summary of sessions
5 Figure (1): Participants'
evaluation on the outcome of the
activity
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1. Summary of the workshop
One day workshop was conducted on 13 April 2017 to prepare candidates on
designing a research proposal. The workshop organized by studies and research
department. The core objective of the workshop was to equip the researchers and
healthcare workers who are planning for higher studies with set of skills and
potentiality to write a research project. The course intends to deal with variety of
quantitative and qualitative research methods used in health researches. It gives more
exposure on how to identify a problem, skills of literature review, writing good
research questions, objectives, and hypothesis. .By the end of program the participants
are expected to develop a research proposal of a significant research problem. The
workshop was given by Dr. Abdullatif Al Balushi, research consultant and attended
by 31 participants. The workshop consists of 3 hours theory and 3 hours practice. The
workshop commenced, after the registration of participants, introduction and
presenting a certificate to the speaker of the workshop.
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The workshop continued between 08:00 am to 2:00 pm with a tea break. The
first three hours covered the theory part of writing research proposal. He
explains the constraints faced in writing research proposals, key components,
critical critiquing, elements that promote effective technical and ethical
concerns. Then, he introduced the participants to the conceptual clarity in the
process of research and the steps to be undertaken while pursuing research. He
brought to notice of all presented in the workshop about the practical problems
of research scholars in doing a research. He also gave an overview about
literature review/problem identification: Sources and criteria. The session
applied more focus on how to reviewing the literature and find the gap. The
workshop provides researchers how research questions formulate and brought
out the differences between types of research.
The session was followed by
three hours practice. The
participants were formed in a
group and they discussed
among the group members
and framed a research title,
research questions, research
objectives and research
hypothesis. Every group
presented their proposal.
Every participant were given
an opportunity to
Summary of Sessions
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frame a null and alternative hypothesis based on the problem chosen on the
spot and deliberate the hypothesis
with proper understanding. Every
participant was happy after the
activity session that they have
clarity how to formulate the
working hypothesis and testing for
their research. This activity session
helped the participants to understand
the lacunas they have in the research
proposal writing. The speaker
explained the points to be carried out while writing research proposal and again
the points were summarized to the participants at the end of the workshop. All
participants expressed their satisfaction about the workshop and overall
organization of the workshop as well as the whole program (Figure 1).
Figure (1): Participants' evaluation on the outcome of the activity