What is a PhD research is all about?

Doing PhD Research is scientific, methodological way of finding answers to hypothetical questions. Since research methodology gives direction for conducting your thesis and also affects your results and how you conclude the findings, thus, it requires special and complete attention. Moreover, research is considered as an academic activity, thus always term should be used in a technical sense. As soon as candidates register for their PhD, there are several major questions that they ask themselves such as “How to Research?” and ‘What to research?’ and central question would be ‘why research’ (Remenyi et al, 1998).

Research can be a method of finding a solution to a problem or it can also involve in the formulation of a theory. Hence in order to formulate a theory or to find an answer to the question, researchers need to be familiarizing with the appropriate methods. In general research objectives fall into a number of following broad groupings

• To gain familiarity with a phenomenon or achieve new insights – Exploratory or formulation research
• To portray accurately the population or individual or a group characteristic – Descriptive
• To determine the association or frequency of something which occurs – Diagnostic research
• To test a hypothesis of a causal relationship between variables – Hypothesis testing studies