Sharpen Your Dissertation Research Question

Your research question feels fine until a supervisor calls it too broad or too vague, and you are stuck. This critiques yours against specificity, feasibility, originality, and the conventions of your field, flags the exact weaknesses, and hands you sharper rewrites. Better to hear it now than at your viva.

My dissertation topic is {TOPIC_AREA} and my current research question is: {CURRENT_QUESTION}. My field is {ACADEMIC_FIELD} and I am targeting {DEGREE_LEVEL} level. Please critique this research question against the following criteria: specificity, feasibility within a typical dissertation timeframe, originality, and alignment with scholarly conventions in my field. Identify any weaknesses, such as being too broad, too narrow, unanswerable with standard methods, or lacking a clear unit of analysis. Then propose three refined alternative versions of the research question, each with a brief rationale explaining what was improved and why the revision strengthens the overall study.