Research question and project
Now it is your turn to decide for a self-chosen research question to work on in your final team project.
Research question
Design a research question and answer it with the skills you learned in the course.
Below you can find some examples for research question or topics, which you might work on in your final team project. However, you are encouraged to work on self-developed research questions in your projects!
Some ideas for your team project might be related to the classification, quantification, change detection, or prediction of
- orchard meadows, hedges, or any biotope type
- cars, bicycles roads, parking lots
- solar panels, pools, trampolines,
- rooftop greening
- city parks
- bridges, dams, and dikes
- wind parks
- airfields
- military structures
- archeological features, e.g. neolithical ringwalls/fortifications, burial grounds, etc.
- …
Project management and implementation
Creativity in research and project management are not incompatible. In fact, professional research requires the definition of some kind of aim or the organization of tasks in time schedules.
Common project management steps are:
- define the research question project and its objectives,
- break down the project into tasks and define a schedule,
- get and prepare the data you need for reaching your objectives
- design workflows for each task and implement them, and last but not least
- adjust your tasks, solve problems and be flexible.
Obviously, it makes sense to start your research project with a short project outline, which should include the project management steps outlined above. Based on your project outline and the feedback we will give you on it, you will realize and submit your final team project. More information about the final team project and there requirements can be found here.
For more details on project management for scientists, see e.g. the paper of Portny & Austin 2002.