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One Day State Level Research Methodology Workshop

The Research and Development Cell (R&DC), Unity College in collaboration with the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) organized a One Day State Level Research Methodology Workshop on the theme ” The Art and Science of Doing Social Research” on 29th May, 2025. The resource person of the workshop were Prof. Athungo Ovung and Dr. Sandeep Gupta, Associate Professor; from the Department of Sociology, Nagaland University. There were a total of 6 sessions. In the first two sessions, Dr. Gupta highlighted the process of crafting a good research problem characterized by clarity, unambiguity, novelty, feasibility and relevance; through a careful and systematic process of Literature Review. Dr. Gupta also stressed the need for researchers to bridge disciplinary boundaries and eliminate epistemological biases while formulating the research problem. Prof. Ovung in the 3rd and 4th sessions, interspersed with a lunch session in between, elaborated on the conception of a research design and the tools and techniques of data collection including that of  ethnography, interviews, surveys and case studies. The 5th session by Dr. Gupta dealt with data processing and analysis to convert raw data into meaningful and relevant information while the last session by Prof. Ovung was on report writing with a focus on APA 7th style of referencing. The seminar concluded with an interactive session and a commemorative photo session. A total of 90 participants from different colleges and Universities took part in the workshop.