Finding a Thesis Topic

Abstract

Finding a thesis topic is hard. It may be the hardest thing you do during your graduate degree. But there are commonalities to thesis topics—and the approaches to finding them—that might help you focus your efforts during your thesis-topic quest. Here I offer my advice and experience to help you find your way, and perhaps shorten your journey.

Experiences of a Graduate Student Guided by Henry Stommel

“…I had witnessed similar situations at McGill where a professor provided a research topic to a graduate student. This process is vastly different than the one commonly used today when a graduate student prepares a thesis proposal (Franks, 2021(Franks, , 2022.…”