Pitching Research: A Pilot Experiment with UQ Winter Scholars

Pitching research: ‘qualitative cousins’ and the ‘extended family’

“…Faff () argues that the pitching research tool provides multi‐faceted benefits – its basic framework simultaneously serves as a research planning tool; a research skills development tool (Faff, ); a research learning tool (Faff et al ., 2017h; Faff et al ., and Ratiu, ); a research agenda‐setting tool (Maxwell, ); a research mentoring tool (Faff et al ., ); a research collaboration tool (Wallin and Spry, ); a research engagement & impact tool (Faff and Kastelle, ); research‐led teaching tool (Faff et al ., ); and a research ‘discoverability’ tool (Faff et al ., 2017). As such, these various dimensions effectively represent many facets of the ‘extended family’ of Faff's () pitching research , as discussed below.…”

“…Faff et al . () describe a real example of this strategy, piloted for three UQ Winter Scholars sponsored by the UQ Advantage Office – as part of a programme aimed at undergraduate and coursework masters students.…”

“…Based on Faff's (2015) template tool, Faff (2016a) explains how meaningfully layered pitching research tasks can be designed to accommodate a wide range of student mastery, that enable a clear/easily implementable pedagogic strategy. Faff et al (2016b) describe a real example of this strategy, piloted for three UQ Winter Scholars sponsored by the UQ Advantage Officeas part of a programme aimed at undergraduate and coursework masters students.…”

“… Additionally: Faff et al . (, b, c); Faff and Kastelle (); Faff et al . (,b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i), Nguyen et al .…”

Women in the boardroom and their impact on default risk: a pitch

“…The pitch template also helped me and my co-authors to improve the quality of the paper titled "Stock liquidity, corporate governance and leverage: New panel evidence" published in Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (see,Nadarajah, Ali, Liu, and Haung 2016).3 As a pitch ambassador, I have provided feedback on several PRLs (e.g., Atif 2016; Nadarajah 2016).4 Reverse engineering (RE), where the environment is controlled, is a good strategy for learning the pitching template (see,Faff, Godfrey, and Teng 2016;Faff, Li, Nguyen, and Ye 2016). Hence, novice researchers may start with RE to develop the know-how and confidence in applying it.…”