here i am sitting in the first-year confirmation seminar of one of the doctoral students from my department at the National Institute of Education.
he's K Suthakar, and his research is on how remote sensing techniques might be used to make sense of how land uses have been changing in Sri Lanka's Jaffna peninsula, partly as a consequence of the conflict between the central government and the Tamil Tigers.
he's got an interesting slide near the beginning of his presentation, entitled 'outline of the research', which he divides into inputs, processes and outputs. worth thinking about, in terms of my own oral defence in time to come.
some of the questions raised by the panel include more explicit coverage of significant contributions, and a closer link between the lit review and the research methodology.
