Components of a Qualitative Proposal

Title/signature page
  • full title of proposal and running head
  • list of investigators (with signature lines), affiliations, phone and fax numbers
  • total budget and start and completion dates of project
  • names, signature lines, and addresses for the institutional research administration personnel

Abstract page

Body of the proposal
  • introduction
  • statement of purpose or aims
  • review of the literature
    - importance of project
    - research question
  • methods
    - description of setting and participants
    - data collection
    - procedure for data collection
    - data analysis
  • human subjects protection
  • timeline (schedule for plan of work

References

Appendices
  • investigators’ vitae
    - summary of principal investigator’s and other key personnel’s vitae (limited to two pages per person)
  • consent forms
  • interview schedules
  • publications
    - previous publications by investigator pertinent to this project

Reference: Denzin, N.K. & Lincoln, Y.S. (eds.). Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry. SAGE Publications, 1998.