‘A Journey from the Vague to the Precise’: using Faff’s (2015) Pitching Research Framework for conveying our research ideas with a professional flair

Abstract

This paper explores the personal experience of using the Research pitch template, developed by Faff (2015, 2018), to develop a raw research idea of a novice researcher into a finished pitch, to share with and present to the expert, supervisor(s) for further discussion and guidance on the Research topic. The journey from the first encounter with the pitch template to metamorphosing into an expert user of the pitch, where we created various real and reverse engineered pitches at different stages of the learning curve, has been presented in detail with personal anecdotes as the process progressed.

Keywords

• Pitching research
• implied volatility
• energy valuation