Pitching research for research-enabled students: Reflections on my experience as a “test pilot” of the InSPiR2eS “Internship” Initiative

Abstract

As a “research-enabled” undergraduate student, I approached Professor Faff about opportunities for research projects. Recognizing that I had only limited research exposure, he devised a program of incremental learning, based on his “pitching research” framework (Faff, 2015,2021). Under close guidance, as a pilot case study of a new InSPiR2eS “Internship” initiative, I was assigned several tasks. The primary activity reported in the current pitching research letter, challenged me to create interactive "Reverse Engineered" pitches based on two recent research studies.