IP University Organises 5-day Research Methodology Workshop

University School of Mass Communication (USMC) of Indraprastha University in collaboration with Indian Council of Social Science Research ( ICSSR) organised a five-day workshop from on 'Research Methodology for PhD Students in Communication Studies' at the Dwarka campus.
 
Dr Anup Beniwal, Dean, USMC, addressed the inaugural session and said, “In a globalised world, the role of research in an academic institution is significant for its sustainability and development, and it is imperative to have knowledge driven growth based on innovation. The quest of knowledge is the pre — requisite for research.”

The convener of the workshop, Dr. Durgesh Tripathi, Assistant Professor, USMC, asserted, "the workshop was designed to impart knowledge on Research Methodology in the context of qualitative and quantitative methods along with training in statistical packages across various fields of social sciences and communication studies,"

Ajay Gupta, Director, Indian Council of Social Science Research, said, “This is the third consecutive research methodology workshop organized by the department of USMC and the motive is to interact with Ph.D. students at more personal space.”

Professor David Hind, President, Asia Pacific Institute For Event Management or APIEM and Mohd Raziff Jamaluddin, Deputy Dean (Research and Industry Linkages), University Teknologi Mara, delivered lectures on research methodology. And many other resource persons came from across the country and globe lamented on various dimensions and latest tools of the Research Methodology at different sessions.

All the 25 participants came from various universities of the country were given participation certificates on the occasion by the chief guests of the occasion Prof K Sriniwas of NIPEA and Prof Deepak Shinde of SRTM University, Nanded.