Course Offered by:
Indian Society for Education and Environment (iSEE) www.iseeadyar.org , www.indjst.org
and Scholarly Needs, an interactive research forum www.scholarlyneeds.com
Objective : To prepare and encourage selected UG/PG scholars for their ‘Research aptitude’ during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Course type : Online
Preparatory type : Duration of 2 months with 16-hour contact class.
Eligibility : UG/ PG students from Science/ Engineering/ Healthcare stream with research motivation
Previous participants : UG/PG- I batch from BITS-Pilani
What students/participants will do during the course?
Participants will be asked to identify research topics of social problem solving nature; this will be moderated or guided by subject doyens online/ offline or from research expert panels of iSee; they will learn how to choose meaningful research topics when opportunity warranted or will generate/conceive idea during this course time with the help of expert team
Participants will learn theoretically how to execute the objectives by adapting suitable research methodology
Participants will learn with prepared data set how to interpret the research (anticipated) outcome with the existing reports
Participants will learn to develop how to draw a meaningful conclusion from the anticipated results and from the existing research advancements
Participants will also be made to develop familiarity/ knowledge on:
Submission of research articles to Journals
How to prepare/ communicate research article to a journal
Plagiarism;
Authorship
How to write introduction
Results and Discussion
Acknowledgement
Citation and References
Citation and Impact Factors
The benefits of research Interactive fora
Indexing agencies
Peer reviews
Significance of the course:
On completion of the course, the participants are expected to develop knowledge/ skill in conceiving research problem and develop theoretical and practical knowledge on how to communicate a research piece for journal publication.
They will have opportunity to interact with Journal Editor “Indian Journal of Science and Technology” to imbibe the valuable expertise in the research communication field; Also many Doyens are expected to volunteer as mentors during the online/ offline activities.
Outcome/deliverables:
The pandemic period will be utilized to link the scholar and mentors and prepare the motivated scholars by strengthening their research aptitude ready to kickstart for actual project work without time requirements for preparation.
Universities/ colleges interested for such course can contact
Prof.Natarajan Gajendran
Whatsapp: 9940444695 Ph: 9360404571
Email: indjst2016@gmail.com