Virtual FDP on Fundamentals of Research Writing and Publications

Date: 29-06-2020 to 03-07-2020
Time: 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Presenter -     Mr. Rushabh Trivedi
                        Research fellow
                        School of Management Studies, 
                        University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana.
Venue: Online – Google Meet

Five-day Virtual Faculty Development Programme on “Fundamentals of Research Writing and Publications” was organized by the Faculty of Commerce and Management. The session was organized for the benefit of faculties who want to take-up quality research and publish papers. The FDP received an overwhelming response from participants across the country. More than 800 Registered. We accommodated 250   participants from different parts of the country. Pre readings were given by the guest speaker to prepare the participants for the 5-day FDP session. The session started with a brief introduction of the resource person Mr Rushabh Trivedi and followed by the session. It was an interactive session. Session for five days was carried out as below.

•    Day 1
o    Date: - 29-06-2020
o    Time: - 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
On the first day Mr Rushabh explained the importance and basic elements of theory. He enlightened the participants on how a good paper or article should be. He explained this on the basses how a paper should answer the question such as What? Why? How? When? regarding its contribution to research. The reasons why some papers are rejected was explained with the help of practical examples. Mr Rushabh explained on how to use and test an existing theory as well as how to build a new theory. He explained the importance of observation in research with the “Aristotle’s Theory of Science”. At the end of the session queries of the participants were answered by the resource person.

•    Day 2
o    Date: - : 30-06-2020
o    Time: - 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
In the second day session, the resource person focused identifying research topic and choosing appropriate research design. The basic structure of a paper was given on the day two which was explained in detail in the present and the later sessions. Mr Rushabh explained about the five distinct criteria of effective topic selection which are Significance, Novelty, Curiosity, Scope and Actionability. All the criteria were explained with a practical insight. The session also focused on how to choose an appropriate research design. At the end of the session queries of the participants were answered by the resource person.

•    Day 3
o    Date: - 01-07-2020
o    Time: - 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
The topic of discussion on the third day was understanding anatomy of a research article, drafting abstract and introduction session. A brief explanation was given on why an abstract is an important part of a paper and how an abstract has to highlight the main aspects of the paper. Aspects on the contents of Introduction part of the paper was explained in the later part of the session. Sir explained how the Introduction should focus on importance of the general area of interest, what has already been done, identifying important gaps. At the end of the session sir explained about what are the common mistakes a researcher does in the Introduction part of the session. Queries of the participants were taken and answered by the resource person.

•    Day 4
o    Date: - 02-07-2020
o    Time: - 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Session on the fourth day focused on integration of a theory and how to develop a hypothesis. Sir referred hypotheses are the heart of a paper, and developing hypotheses is one of the most important tasks in crafting effective theory. On what bases the variables of the hypothesis are selected to construct a theory was explained with the help of Organizational theories. At the end session Model of Work-Family enrichment was explained by the resource person and the queries of the participants were answered.

•    Day 5
o    Date: - 03-07-2020
o    Time: - 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm.

Last days session focused on multivariate data analysis. He explained how relationship can be examined between two or more variables by using multivariate analysis. The session enlightened the participant on the various topics like variate, nonmetric (qualitative) measurement scales, metric (quantitative) measurement scales. measurement error, impact of measurement error, statistical power, stages in structural equation modeling, multivariate methods. He concluded the session and the 5 days FDP programme by giving an overview of all the sessions as well as by taking questions from the participants. There was an overwhelming response from the participants.

There was an overwhelming response for the Virtual FDP on “Fundamentals of Research Writing and Publications". Totally 250 faculty members and researchers across India had attended the FDP.  Out of 250 participants 90 % of the participant has strongly agreed that the FDP was useful. Majority (90%) of the participant have mentioned that FDP was well planned, structured, organized and it was relevant to their role. 89% of the respondents were highly satisfied with the materials shared by resource person. 93% have mentioned that resource person explained the content with good number of examples. 95 % of the respondent believed that the facilitator is an effective teacher. Overall 90% of the respondents were highly satisfied with the learning gained from the FDP. Suggestions were considered from all the respondents for the betterment of the forth coming programme.

Coordinators
Dr. Harani B & Dr. Urmila Itam