Guidelines for the Preparation of Work-Based Projects

This is a general guide to the basic considerations for your Project work and should be observed to comply with the full requirements and standards of the Diplomatic Academy.

 

Choice of Research Topic

Your choice should be of a topic where you feel you have plenty of interest, possibly some background and where, from a preliminary survey, you believe that there is ample available material (i.e your Study Material) and scope to enable you to present reasonable work and a conclusion from which you and others can benefit. On the other hand you may choose a completely fresh direction as a challenge but this can make the work difficult. Remember that your work should be of publishable quality and may be of use to your future employer and others!

 

Work-Based Master Research/Project Proposal

A suitable topic of research for the production of a 1,500-word research proposal in a significant area of the academic discipline of commercial diplomacy, must be submitted for assessment, evaluation and approval within 3 weeks of the date of Master project enrolment.

 

QCD/Senior Diplomatic Fellowship Research/Project Proposal

A suitable topic of research for the production of a 5,000-word research proposal in a significant area of the academic discipline of commercial diplomacy, must be submitted for assessment, evaluation and approval within 3 weeks of the date of doctoral project enrolment, before submitting fully completed application

 

If it proves impossible for any reason to approve the research topic, the applicant will be permitted to submit an alternative research topic. Broad guidelines as to possible subject areas will be indicated and a further three weeks will be permitted for a fresh research proposal submission. Assessment, evaluation and approval of the new research topic will be completed within a further two weeks.

 

information on durations

It should be emphasised that a research project will only be considered if the first draft has been successfully approved by the Diplomatic Academy.

 

Further amendments and draft submissions may be required to satisfy Board. These must be completed within the maximum allowed duration unless there are extenuating circumstances.

 

Information on Extended Research

 

Copyright

Legal requirements must be observed and candidates are reminded of the limitations and benefits they can have in this respect. Sources and quotations from other publications must at all times be acknowledged.

All projects theses are regarded as the intellectual property of Diplomatic Academy of Europe and no one including authors shall be permitted to reproduce the research work in full or in part in any format, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior written permission of the Diplomatic Academy of Europe