Basics of Academic/Research Writing

27/03/2022

Recording of today's session on developing research proposal for PhD research. Please feel free to share your feedback and suggestions for future presentations/discussions.

This presentation is an attempt to help prospective PhD candidates become familiar with the process of developing a research proposal for selection to resear...

26/03/2022

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26/03/2022

Sharing a video that captures my journey during my PhD research from identifying my area of research interest to arriving at research topic and formulating research questions. Often the question we begin with, is an important question emerging from our experiences, our engagements with texts, field, and people. Yet, it is far from being a research question, a research question that is nuanced, and theoretically and methodologically informed. Arriving at research topic, aim and questions, is not the beginning of the research but an important juncture during the course of a research.

The video attempts to briefly capture my journey from developing an interest around some concerns to arriving at research topic and questions.

15/03/2022

Coming soon... sessions on -
(I) writing a research proposal for a research programme
(II) ethnographic research

06/08/2021

For APA-7 referencing and in-text citations format, please check the video below. A fairly comprehensive one.

Additionally, this website is really helpful while citing- web articles, conference presentations, unpublished manuscripts, interviews, etc.- https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/apa_changes_7th_edition.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmc5kWuRdgM&t=5s

0:00 - Intro0:45 - In-text citations4:05 - Direct quotes (in-text)5:52 - Paraphrases (in-text)10:47 - Balancing citations in a long paraphrase13:13 - Referen...

04/08/2021

The youtube video of today's session.

The video discusses the development of semi-structured interview schedules for data collection in qualitative research.

22/07/2021

Based on the requests received in messages, the next session will be on developing and administering semi-structured interview schedules for qualitative research. Details will be shared soon.

06/07/2021

The videos of the previous sessions are being gradually uploaded here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFMf6UbDj_c-pm92nKnY5fw/videos

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05/07/2021

We will now be streaming videos live on our youtube channel, and also try to upload the previous sessions on it for easy access and sharing.

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04/07/2021

I had prepared a video on thematic analysis (including coding) for interview data (esp. semi-structured interviews) for a course I take on Qualitative Research Methods for MA Education. Since quite a few had written asking for a session on coding, I thought it might be helpful to upload this. Some key resources/references used for preparing this are shared below. Hope you find it useful.

Key references:
Willig, Carla (2010). Introducing Qualitative Research in Psychology.New Delhi: Tata McGraw Hill.
Smith, J. A. (2005). Semi-structured interviewing and qualitative analysis. In J. Smith, R. Harre, & L. Langenhove, Rethinking Methods in Psychology. London: Sage, p. 9-26.
Gibbs, G.R. (2010). Grounded theory- line by line coding - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfd_U-24egg