The book is all about the scientific and prevailing process of doing research. It has been assumed that research is a change process for individual/teams involved in it and those who may be the beneficiaries of its outcome. Therefore, it applied one of the change frameworks to arrange the usual elements of a research proposal. Nevertheless, it is also useful for compiling dissertations and reports. The contents have been divided into four phases: the context, contents, process and product. Each of them discusses the subject briefly. It is augmented with six exemplars written for different occasions starting from the academic audience to industry practitioners. Therefore, makes the book useful for writing proposals to solicit for a dissertation or to claim to fund from a potential sponsor.
About the Author: Dr. Javed Iqbal was born 1959 in Rawalakot district Poonch Azad Kashmir. He received his matriculation from Pilot High School Rawalakot in 1975 and intermediate from Hussain Shaheed Degree College of the same town with distinction. He earned BBA with a gold medal and an MBA (Finance) with a gold medal from Azad Jammu and Kashmir University in 1986. He was appointed as a lecturer in Business Administration in the same university. Later on he was selected by the government of Pakistan for higher education and deputed him to the UK. He received MBA (MIS) from the University of Hull and PhD from the University of Salford. Dr. Iqbal has been working in England in various capacities: professor, director of studies, marketing advisor and academic advisor. Dr. Iqbal returned to home in 2006 and joined Iqra University Islamabad campus as an associate professor. He served as chairman of the Department of Technology Management in International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) from 2012-2015. He was appointed as professor and dean of the faculty of Management Sciences AKU (AJ&K) in March 2015. He is a distinguished teacher and world known scholar. His article title "Learning from a Doctoral Research Project: Structure and Content of a Research Proposal" has been ranked by Deakin University of Australia as the best piece of knowledge on the subject especially for doctoral students. This paper is widely used and referred all over the world; many organizations turn it into an e-book and uploaded on their websites. A large number of academic institutes had included it in the reference list for writing research proposals and articles. One professor has included it in his Hand Book of Research. Dr. Javed Iqbal wrote six books on various subjects which are taught all over the world; he published his autobiography in February 2016. All are available on www.amazon.com. One of them has been recognized by Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan as a high quality research work. He has also published 23 research articles in national and international journals. He is also a poet and compiled his collection to be published in 2016. He received many awards and rewards. He won the Fauji foundation scholarship, UGC scholarship for higher studies (Quad-e-Azam Merit Scholarship) worth $100,000. He has been awarded the "Award of Distinguished Scientist" by an international organization for his contribution in research in February 2016.