I’ve chosen Survey as a research quantitative method with the purpose of understanding the current and past MA Fashion Design Management students perspective regarding the benefits of the networking opportunities the university is offering to them.

Before writing down the questions I read a chapter of Kara, Helen. Creative Research Methods in the Social Sciences: A Practical Guide, which helped me to reflect on:

1. What I want to achieve with this research 
2. Which questions will help me to get relevant findings 
3. Are my analysis and its results going to be helpful in the next stages of the research process: writing, presentation, dissemination and implementation
4. Which type of questions are better for my ARP? Are they closed questions or restrictive questions? 
5. Because of the nature of the questions, am I excluding any potential relevant results?
6. Are the questions in the right sequence?
7. Am I using the right vocabulary? 
8. Can I avoid any misinterpretation?
9. To encourage high participation, is the number of questions adequate?

Once the survey draft was finalised, I wanted to verify it ticked all the boxes. On that note, I shared the draft with two current MA FDM students and with two former ones. The aim was  to simply get their feedback, specially about the above points 4, 6, 7  & 8.

The opinion of these students was insightful and allowed me to notice some aspects I didn’t considered:

• They appreciate multiple choice closed questions
• The questionnaire could be more addresses towards the adaptation/inclusivity area
• There is one question which is not clear

Now I feel confident to finalise my survey and share it with the participants.