Research theme · 25 selected briefs
The collection groups research questions where gender is a substantive analytic focus, while retaining each topic’s home discipline and evidence boundaries.
A passing mention of gender does not make a topic a gender-studies project. Keep the construct, population, historical corpus or institutional material explicit, and avoid treating one sample as representative of everyone.
Agricultural Extension and Rural Development · Gender and extension
This Agricultural Extension and Rural Development final year project examines how extension schedules interact with rural women's daily responsibilities.
Read the proposed briefArabic Studies · Arabic language and gender
This Arabic Studies final year project examines how institutions represent women in professional title forms through public Arabic staff directories and policy documents with personal identifiers minimised. The study develops a bounded analysis with clearly documented evidence and interpretation limits.
Read the proposed briefDevelopment Studies · Gender and development
This Development Studies final year project examines which public business-support information do participating women owners identify as priorities? The proposed evidence is voluntary adult owner interviews with privacy safeguards, interpreted within a clearly bounded study scope.
Read the proposed briefEconomics · Gender and economic participation
This Economics final year project examines gendered access to information about formal savings among adult microenterprise owners through adult owners in defined business categories recruited without requesting account balances, with a defined comparison that can be adjusted to available access and supervisor guidance.
Read the proposed briefEnglish and Literary Studies · Gender criticism
This English and Literary Studies final year project examines how domestic settings shape representations of women's agency. The proposed evidence base is a legally obtained edition of Purple Hibiscus and critical scholarship.
Read the proposed briefFrench · Francophone gender criticism
This French final year project examines how dramatic turn allocation positions gendered authority through two legally obtained Francophone plays with ensemble scenes. The study develops a bounded analysis with clearly documented evidence and interpretation limits.
Read the proposed briefHausa · Hausa gender criticism
This Hausa final year project examines how women-authored fiction connects educational ambition with relationship negotiation through two legally obtained Hausa works with relevant author-verified publication records. The study develops a bounded analysis with clearly documented evidence and interpretation limits.
Read the proposed briefHistory and International Studies · Gender and historiography
This History and International Studies final year project investigates how public accounts of the Aba Women's War change across commemorative periods. The proposed source base combines published historical scholarship, museum displays and dated anniversary reporting, subject to an initial access and provenance check.
Read the proposed briefIgbo · Igbo gender criticism
This Igbo final year project examines how interior speech represents women's choices beyond public dialogue through two legally accessed contemporary Igbo prose works. The study develops a bounded analysis with clearly documented evidence and interpretation limits.
Read the proposed briefIslamic Studies · Gender and Islamic learning
This Islamic Studies final year project examines how adult women's study circles organise questions and access to scholarly explanation through consented adult interviews and permission-cleared question-session guidelines. The study develops a bounded analysis with clearly documented evidence and interpretation limits.
Read the proposed briefMass Communication · Gender and media institutions
This Mass Communication final year project examines the distribution and speaking roles of expert sources across selected public-affairs broadcasts through lawfully accessed broadcast segments or official transcripts with clear dates and programme criteria, with a defined comparison that can be adjusted to available access and supervisor guidance.
Read the proposed briefPolitical Science · Gender and governance
This Political Science final year project examines gender inclusion and participation information in public consultation notices for a selected policy process through dated notices, participation guides and publicly available response routes from relevant public bodies, with a defined comparison that can be adjusted to available access and supervisor guidance.
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