Research Topic Ideas: Research Topic Ideas by Subject

Common topics in the social sciences include:

• Fake news
• Privacy
• Social media as social justice
• Social media influencers
• Social media literacy
• Social networking
• Capital punishment
• Community policing
• Crime statistic reporting
• Cyber crime
• Death penalty
• Domestic violence
• Fraud
• Hate crime
• Hate groups
• Identity theft
• Illegal drug use
• International terrorism
• Legalization of marijuana
• Prostitution
• Racial profiling
• Rehabilitation in prison
• Presidential campaigns
• Voter registration
• Campaign finance laws
• Effect of mass media
• Electoral College reform
• Gerrymandering
• Addiction
• Anti-vaccination
• Class
• Consumerism
• Cultural appropriation
• Cultural assimilation
• Ethnicity
• Equal pay
• Family issues
• Gender Issues
• Internet communities
• Mass Media
• Online dating

Common education topics include:

• Bilingual education
• Blended learning
• Bussing
• Charter schools
• Class size
• Collaborative learning
• Common Core
• Discipline
• Dual enrollment programs
• Early childhood education
• Flipped classroom
• Homeschooling
• Information literacy
• Learning styles
• Online education
• Plagiarism
• School choice
• School schedule reform
• School to work programs
• Sex education
• Standardized testing
• Violence in schools
• Uniforms

Common business topics include:

• Brand awareness
• Competitive intelligence
• Consumer loyalty
• Consumer risk
• Corporate crime
• Corporate culture
• Corporate social responsibility
• Data security
• Downtown revitalization
• Franchises
• Green products
• Intellectual capital
• Marketing ethics
• Mergers
• Outsourcing
• Philanthropy
• Regional planning
• Risk management
• Strategic planning
• Strikes
• Underwriting
• Undocumented workers
• Unions
• Whistleblowing
• Work ethic
• Work-life balance
• Workplace diversity

Common STEM topics include:

• Big Bang theory
• Black holes
• Spectroscopy
• Cloning
• Conservation
• Coral reefs
• De-extinction
• Ecotourism
• Endangered species
• Genetically modified organisms (GMOs)
• Viruses
• Chemical warfare
• Electromagnetic radiation
• Pesticides
• Polymers
• Artificial intelligence
• Bitcoin
• Datamining
• Encryption
• Gamification
• Internet of things
• Piracy
• Air pollution
• Alternative fuels
• Carbon footprint
• Climate change
• Coral reefs
• Ecotourism
• Green infrastructure
• Oceans
• Pollution reduction
• Sustainable design
• Water pollution
• Aerothermodynamics
• Composite materials
• Design optimization
• Electric cars
• Geoengineering
• Nanotechnology
• Nuclear power
• Applied statistics
• Bioinformatics
• Convex geometry
• Game theory
• Infinity
• Modeling
• Probability theory
• Dark matter
• Gravitational waves
• Quantum entanglement
• Space exploration

Common topics in the arts include:

• art schools or movements (Impressionism, modernism, etc.)
• the relationship between the arts and social issues (gender, race, class, the environment, etc.)

Common humanities topics include:

• historical periods and movements
• transcultural or transnational studies
• literary periods and movements
• critical analysis of literary works