Chapter 7: Conceptual gateway

Conceptual Gateway Tool

This tool helps you understand and work productively with difficult social-science concepts. It guides you in clarifying the concept, linking it to your project, and engaging in a brief Socratic dialogue.

Complete the fields with details of your research. The prompt on the right updates live and will be tailored to what you enter.

When you’re happy, click Copy prompt and go to ChatGPT. This will copy your customised prompt and open ChatGPT.

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Paste your doctoral project summary

Paste the short summary you created in Chapter 1 — Helping AI Understand Your Research Project . Make any updates you need to. Tools on this page will tailor their feedback using this summary.

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Tip: For cross-session memory, create a Project in ChatGPT (e.g., “My Doctoral Research”) and run all chats inside it. Your project details will then persist across tools.

Explore a Concept

Your Conceptual Gateway Prompt (excerpt)

Copy prompt and go to ChatGPT

For security reasons browsers don’t auto-paste — after ChatGPT opens, press Ctrl/⌘+V to paste the copied prompt into the chat box.

Refining the AI response to your prompt

Once you have an initial response from the AI, you can guide the dialogue with follow-up prompts. For example:

  • “Can you explain that definition in simpler terms?”
  • “That analogy isn’t working for me. Can you offer another one?”
  • “What are the main critiques or limitations of this concept?”

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