Referencing Styles : Harvard You should try to indicate what you think the key questions are that you will tackle. These may be expressed as aims and objectives but do not need to be. Examples of overall research questions, which are often expressed as aims, have included: To explore how individuals in strategic leadership roles in the Muscat Municipality affect the delivery of large-scale projects To examine the potential of landfill sites to support pollinating insect assemblages Enable a deeper understanding of the processes of engaging in different occupations in later life. Subsidiary research questions, which are often expressed as objectives, have included: Critically examine the strategic leadership literature in the delivery of large-scale projects Determine how the plant assemblage is being affected by the landfill site in terms of plant growth, phenology and pollen production through field data Use a survey questionnaire to determine whether changes to occupational identity occur in later life For any research degree it is important that you can make an original contribution through your own independent research. For thesis research the scope should be more limited and the project proposed should be more tightly constrained, and to be do-able in the time allowed. The important point is that the work that you are proposing is appropriate for the degree you intend to take and that the work can be completed in the time allowed by University regulations.