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Hi everyone..
I am basically asking a question that has already been asked by the user XJR in this post: http://www.postgraduateforum.com/threadViewer.aspx?TID=3633, but I was wondering if I could get more feedbacks this time. Sorry for asking this again :p
My question is: Would it be acceptable for someone to do a PHD research on the same topic as they did for their MA dissertation?
I came across a thread about the same issue on a different forum and read somewhere among the answers that your PHD research has to be at least 'intrinsically' different from your MA dissertation. For example, you may write on the same topic, but you have to give it a little tweak to make it different from your previous work like asking new questions, using different methods, coming up with different hypotheses etc. Would your prospective university (assuming it is not the same place where you did your MA) accept a PHD proposal that revolves around the same research question and employs the same methods of study, but that of which includes a broader theoretical framework?
Is everyone confused with the question? Coz I think I am :-(
Sorry!!
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