A two-day Online FDP on Quality Research
A two-day Online FDP on Quality Research organised by LIBA concluded on April 27th, 2021. The FDP was attended by 40 participants from different colleges and universities and focused on the process of formulating the research questions and developing the effective research design. The FDP covered many important topics related to research, such as research paradigms, hypotheses testing, sampling techniques, data collection, data analysis using SPSS, PROCESS, and AMOS, fallacies of research, plagiarism, and professional ethics. Prof. P.C. Lakshmi Narayanan, Dean, Academics, LIBA, inaugurated the FDP. He said research should be done with highest professional and ethical standards. Three international facilitators (Dr. Sulochana Nair, Dr. Jee Teck Weng, and Dr. Sandhya Sastry) from Malaysia and U.K. shared their thoughts on Philosophy of Research and Research Process, Research Questions, Plagiarism, and Future Trends in Research. On the concluding day of the FDP, Dr. Deepa Ittimani Tholath, Associate Dean, Research collected feedback from the participants, who requested that more such FDPs to be organized in the future.