18 Days Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on 

Mastering Research Methods
in Behavioural Sciences

The Faculty Development Programme (FDP) Mastering Research Methods in Behavioural Sciences having a duration of 18 days jointly organised by the Department of Psychology, St. Teresa’s College, Ernakulam and Association For Social Change, Evolution, and Transformation (ASCENT) was conducted online from 04-01-2022 to 16-02-2022. Each day of the FDP had two hours of sessions containing detailed lectures with discussions. 

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The total duration of the training was 36 hours. The FDP was facilitated by Shiju Joseph (Assistant Professor of Psychology at Government College for Women, Thiruvananthapuram), Dr. Chinchu C ( Research Associate at Women's Studies Centre, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) ), Dr. Sameer Babu (Associate Professor, Department of Education, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), University), Dr. Anil Chandran S ( Head of the Department, Department of Demography, University of Kerala and Honorary Director of Population Research Centre, University of Kerala.),  Dr. Priya K Nair (Assistant Professor at the Department of English, St. Teresa’s College, Ernakulam.),   Dr. Archana Arun ( Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Kerala.) and Mr. Jimson E. R. (Executive director, ASCENT). 
 

Syllabus of the FDP

• Developing Research Aptitude

• Guiding Student Projects in Psychology

• Research Ethics: Plagiarism, Ethics Committee, Ethical Approval Process, Helsinki guidelines, Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) - APA Style, and Pre-Registration.

• Identifying a research problem and formulating a  research question

• Research Problem/Question Exercise with newspaper

• (i) Literature review: How to do a literature review and how not to do a literature review

• (ii) Tool selection for Quantitative studies

• Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Method.

• Data Collection: Design of data collection form (Ethical considerations, Consent form/declaration, Demographic variables- how to design items, Scales and instructions, Interview questions, and administration)

• (i)      Survey data collection using E-forms 

• (ii)      Data Preparation: Data Entry, Export and Cleaning (Data entry in a spreadsheet,     Basic data cleaning with Spreadsheet, Coding the data)

• Statistical Analysis (Jamovi and SPSS): Data transformation, Visualization, Descriptive statistics including normality testing, Inferential statistics including t-tests, ANOVA, Correlation, Regression analysis, Factor Analysis, 2 way ANOVA, Factorial ANOVA, and Non-Parametric tests. 

• Qualitative Analysis: Data Collection tools, Data Preparation, Content Analysis, Coding, Categorization, Interpretation, Thematic Analysis, Grounded Theory, Visual Analysis, Reliability and Validity.

• Report Writing, Chapterisation, Formatting, and Referencing

• Reference Management using Zotero and Mendeley

• Paper presentation, Publication Guidelines, and Synopsis Preparation

• Template for Presentation to be supplied

• Scientific Research Paper Writing Skills and converting research findings into popular writing

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We are glad to state that the below-mentioned participants made our training session successful with their active interaction and timely fulfilment of the assignments of each session.