Summer Methods Intensive at African Future University for African Students Preparing Dissertations

Dissertations fail in the design, not only in the last fortnight. African Future University will run a summer methods intensive for students and working professionals across Africa who want a serious degree without leaving their country, their job, or their family who are approaching independent research.

Mornings are taught sessions; afternoons are clinics. Students bring a draft question and leave with a tighter one, a data plan, and a risk register. Tunde Bakare, a in-house counsel in Benin City, will use the intensive to stop collecting data they cannot analyse in the time remaining.

Faculty cover interviews, surveys, basic statistics, document analysis, and the ethics of researching one's own workplace. Nobody will be told that all methods are equal for all questions.