Finding Your Topic

Choose a topic you find interesting and motivating. 

It can be something you’ve already worked with during your studies or internship, or something completely new. 

You can also look for inspiration in your course plan or in your curriculum.

Turning your topic into a problem statement

Try doing a quick search on Google or on Primo for the newest information on your topic. 

Doing this might help you concretise your topic, find useful terms and discover potential information gaps that you can fill.

Narrowing down your topic: an example

Let’s say that you want to write an assignment on digitalization but need to narrow down the topic. Firstly, you’ll need to choose an area within the topic that you want to investigate. This could be elderly people and digitalization.

Now do a quick search for elderly people and digitalization on Google.

By doing this you can narrow down your topic, going from digitalization to the effect of digitalization on elderly people’s inclusion in society. 

Having narrowed down the topic, a possible problem statement could look like this:

“How does digitalization affect elderly people’s inclusion in society and which factors play a role in securing their participation in the digital world?”