Blog Post #2: Research Topic & 10 Sources
For my research topic, I have decided to zero in on the concept of advocacy for vulnerable populations, such as women, children, and immigrants. Though this is a very broad topic, I am confident that the more I search out information, the more questions and "research gaps" I will find. Most of the articles I discovered thus far deal primarily with the funding of private non-profit organizations and their affiliates. I do plan on investigating the idea of grant writing and what that entails. As of now, it seems a bit intimidating, but I'm sure it will be less so, once I actually begin that process.
Grant Writing Takes a
Village
Federal Grants
Performance Disputes
Writing Effective
Federal Grant Proposals
Strategies for
Collaborative Grant Writing
Social Work, Ethics,
and Vulnerable Groups
https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sr/article/view/22508/21400
NIH Grants Go Much More
Often to Men than Women
https://case.edu/aces/sites/case.edu.aces/files/2018-04/The_Chronicle_NIH_grants_article.pdf
Advocacy Education
Female Education and
National Development
Grant Writing and
Grant Seeking
https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/handle/2346/17561
Geopolitics of Grant
Writing
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2190/TW.44.2.c
I would think that one way you can narrow your topic down is to focus on a particular vulnerable group; such as, victims of domestic violence, male survivors of abuse, victims of human trafficking, victims of elderly abuse, victims of incest, etc. From there, you can further narrow your topic to one or more ways to advocate for that group. For instance, if you decide to learn about advocating for victims of domestic violence, you can look into how to set up a shelter for the victims, how to fund raise for the victims, or how to bring attention to their plight. I wish you great success in your research.
ReplyDeleteHello Adell,
ReplyDeleteI think this is a great topic to begin with. There's so much potential. I was able to look at some of your sources and I really think you're headed the right way. Whether you decide to narrow your topic or not, I feel you can't go wrong with anything you choose. I just wanted to say good work.
I am missing a link between grants and vulnerable populations. I think that I need to zero in on the population that a grant would serve here at Utah Tech. So maybe instead of focusing on the two separate issues, I could instead look at women's educational needs in Southern Utah?
ReplyDeleteHi Adell,
ReplyDeleteLooks like you had a good start on your sources, so far, and I completely agree that as you dive deeper into some of these sources that you might craft a research gap/focus, etc. I know you'll be distilling more of your topic interest as you plow through and annotate the sources you've found. I also like the idea of specifying the advocacy on one type of vulnerable population and your plan on catering to women's education needs in so. Utah sounds great (something that matches part of the Student Resource Center's mission). At any rate, after the Lit. Review is done, maybe we can set a quick appointment to brainstorm ideas for your Research Proposal and make the study more beneficial and applicable to practitioners/scholars within our field. (As always, feel free to set an appt. with me anytime if you need help -- am here).
Keep up the good work!
Best,
Dr. B