Knowing whether your dissertation topic is achievable when you first come up with it can be very difficult, especially if you’re an undergraduate or master’s level student. This article helps you to identity whether your dissertation topic will be achievable by focusing on five potential challenges you will need to face and overcome. These relate to access, skills, intellectual help, topic breadth, and your interest in the topic.

It is very common for undergraduate and master’s level students to come up with a dissertation topic that is too broad. Where topics are considered to be too broad, they will either be rejected or will make it particularly difficult for you to complete your dissertation on time. This article helps you to identify (a) some of the factors that make a dissertation topic too broad and (b) how to try and identifying whether your dissertation topic is too broad in the first instance.

To get the most from the Limitations and Future Research section of journal articles, you need to know how to turn a research limitation or future research suggestion into a potential dissertation topic idea. This article explains how to achieve this.