A Faculty Development Program (FDP) on “Research Proposal and Academic Writing” was conducted by the “Research Cell” and Internal Quality Assurance Cell from 3rd July, 2023 to 8th July, 2023. The FDP was divided into six sessions ranging from “Introduction to Research Methodologies to “Paper Clinic”. The inaugural session of the FDP was taken by Dr. Kulveen Trehan, Senior Assistant Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi. She spoke about mixed method research methodologies and their conflicts at the time of report writing. On the second day of FDP, Dr. Sheetal Zalte from Kapila Khandwala College of Education spoke about paradigms of research. She also spoke about various approaches in research such as positivism and post-positivism. Third day of FDP was about “Hypothesis and Sampling’ where in Dr. Smita Gupta from Kapila Khandwala College of Education discussed about various methods of sampling. The next session was taken by Dr. Shraddha Bhome, Vice-Principal, Satish Pradhan Dnyanasadhana College, who enlightened the faculties on how to write academic proposals/papers. Her way of teaching the difficult topics such as choosing the title and writing the hypothesis was very simple and liked by all the participants. Dr. Rommani Sen Shitak, Assistant Professor, KPB Hinduja College guided the faculty members to be skeptical about “Call for Papers/Chapter”. She said that the faculties should try to publish their papers only in UGC-CARE list. She also provided a list of reputed media journals where in faculties can think of publishing their papers. On the concluding day of FDP, participants were asked to present their research papers/proposals and to judge them, Dr. Shraddha Bhome was invited as a resource person again.
Around 70 faculty members/research scholars attended the FDP which was conducted online on ZOOM platform.
