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name: research-proposal-development
description: Use when preparing or revising a research proposal, project rationale, or study plan for a named audience or call.
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# Develop a research proposal

Inspect the supplied brief, call, eligibility criteria, draft, supporting sources, and constraints. Record the required sections, word limits, deliverable, and deadline; verify live call requirements when accessible. Identify what the applicant has already done separately from intended work. Advance the draft using explicit placeholders for information that cannot be inferred.

Build a coherent chain from the problem and evidence through the research question, objectives, proposed methods, expected outputs, feasibility, and significance. Describe the design, analysis, resources, risks, timeline, and ethics or data management to the depth requested by the call. Align milestones with available personnel and funding without inventing costs, access, partnerships, qualifications, or preliminary results. Mark hypotheses and anticipated outcomes as prospective.

Support background and gap statements with sources actually inspected; retain supplied citations and verify bibliographic details when possible. A limited search supports a qualified gap, not a universal novelty claim. Distinguish planned impact from demonstrated impact and identify limitations or dependencies that could change the proposal.

Deliver the requested proposal in the specified format, along with unresolved placeholders, sources checked, and a concise requirements check. If a source, call, data, or tool is inaccessible, say so. The draft does not imply submission, funding, ethics approval, or completion of the proposed research.