The College of Business Administration at Umm Al-Qura University today organized a workshop on the academic basics of writing successful research plans at the King Abdulaziz Support Hall. The workshop was presented by the expert in the methodologies and methods of scientific research at Portsmouth University in the United Kingdom, Prof. Khalid Al-Husaini, in the presence of members of the teaching staff and students of postgraduate studies at the university.

The workshop addressed the types of doctoral theses, ways of defining the research objectives, ways of finding new topics, key content components of the research plan, steps for writing good research titles, research criteria and length, and factors that researchers should take into account when writing the thesis.

While talking about finding new ideas and topics for research, Prof. Al-Husaini stressed the importance of keeping abreast of the latest news of the internationally classified scientific journals, of reviewing articles, reading the latest doctoral theses on the topic of research, and following up the latest scientific conference outputs.