The research design is applied so that suitable research methods are used to ensure the attainment of the goals and objectives set out in Chapter One. This dualism shapes the preconditions for the definition of future as such the division and categorizing of feelings, perceptions and responses within time continuum enables men to experience the movement of the events in time, thus distinguish between before, now and after or the past, present and the future. A Handbook of Political Science. Figure 5 research onion saunders et al 2016 as seen. Mingers, J. I am great admirer of Saunders 'Research Onion." significant advantage over external researchers due to. From: Research Methods for Business Students, (p.124), by Mark Saunders, Philip Lewis and Adrian Thornhill, 2016, England, Pearson Education Limited. It provides a clear picture of all the facts and future course of actions. Here, the previous layer of the onion has an effect on this one so it is important to know the research aim and its limitations. Students Imaginaries in Colombian Post-Conflict. May, G. (2000). Experimental research refers to the strategy of creating a research process that examines the results of an experiment against the expected results. Doctoral dissertation. Aligica, P. D. (2011). Epistemology is the branch of philosophy dealing with the question of what should be considered as acceptable knowledge in different disciplines. The research onion, proposed by Saunders et al. Inayatullah, S. (2013). Assumes the flexibility of future. The Future of Thailands Healthcare Workforce in Light of the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Retroduction Analysis. Surveys tend to be used in quantitative research projects, and involve sampling a representative proportion of the population (Bryman & Bell, 2011). Saunders, M.N.K., Lewis, P. and Thornhill, A. (2019) Research Methods Another approach to define the object of futures studies is based on assumption that there is no the one and the only future, which can rather be defined as a branching tree (Niiniluoto, 2001) or a variety of alternative possibilities as a part of real world which is not manifested yet (Patomaki, 2006). SWOT (& TOWS) Analysis explained with examples. Handbook of anticipation: Theoretical and applied aspects of the use of future in decision making, pp.