Hall discusses his personal connection with mountains as an important factor in his research and reflects on how one best selects a research question. By learning more we realize what isn’t known, and so we begin to identify what cries out for greater understanding. As guidance, he offers the criteria of 5 Ps: personal interests; practical matters (such as logistics and scale); procedural concerns (review of literature), professional considerations (what topics are important in the scholarly community?), and public issues (is the topic relevant to non-academics?).
DOI: doi.org/10.5282/rcc/6536