Hi all.

First post on this forum, be kind!

I am doing a Professional Doctorate. For our proposal, we have to give a 'statement of our ontological/epistemological position'.

Although I understand the concept, I have never seen this detailed or written anywhere.

Could anyone explain/signpost me to examples?

Thanking you :-)

Are you doing quant or qual research? For quant, I wouldn't spend too much effort or time on this. Focus on your theoretical model and hypotheses. I don't know much about qual sorry.

If you have a look at some theses in your discipline, you will probably find one or more sections in the methodology chapter where the writer discusses their epistemological and ontological position. I began this section of my research outline for my upgrade by explaining that my research was an exploratory qualitative study informed by social constructivism and interpretivism. Then I explained what these things mean, how they influenced my research design, methods of data collection and interpretation etc., and how they were complementary to the specific approach that I was taking.