Designing impactful research in social sciences
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The document outlines a workshop aimed at helping participants understand impactful research in social sciences, emphasizing areas such as planning, dissemination, and assessment criteria. It highlights the importance of interdisciplinary approaches and provides a structured dissemination plan template. Additionally, it addresses ethical considerations, consent, and offers assessment criteria for research projects.
Designing impactful research in social sciences
- 2. Objective • To enable the participants to understand the benchmarks of impactful research in social sciences • To explain the nuances of impactful planning and impactful dissemination of your research
- 3. Facilitating Impactful Research What is Impactful Research? Identifying Impactful Research Areas Theory of change & Critical thinking framework Inter-disciplinary approaches Types of Impact Dissemination Plan Assessment criteria for Impact Research
- 4. How to Identifying Impactful areas Systematic Reviews, Metaanalytic Reviews, Scooping Reviews, Replication to a different demography, Adaption to new contexts Source:https://canadiem.org/a-review-of-systematic-reviews/
- 5. Prisma Approach for Impact research
- 6. To promote change • Theory of change-Write one sentence each. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-018-0139-z/figures/1
- 7. Interdisciplinary approaches Find strategic parternships team up to compensate for each other's blind spots Combination of designs Impactful problems can't be solved within a single discipline Important research questions does not fit in to one discreet pocket Do not restrict research questions to one discipline? Formulate your Question funding agencies look for interdisciplinary approaches Source: https://www.apa.org/gradpsych/2015/04/interdisciplinary-research
- 8. Types of Impact Institutional or National level, Pedagogical- Improvement of Teaching practices, Economical- Cost cutting Technologies, Attitudinal- behavioural, cognitive, and learning outcomes, Social outreach
- 9. Recap of Steps • Carrying out rigorous academic reviews • Choosing under researched • interdisciplinary theoretical approaches • interdisciplinary methodological approaches • Evidence based practices
- 10. Dissemination plan by TESOL • What situation, issue, or concerns in your context warrant inquiry? • Research Questions: What questions are you asking and investigating? • Connection to the Field: What debates, experiences, concepts, readings, etc., influenced or motivated this inquiry? How are these questions informed by the TESOL Research Agenda? • Research Design/Description of the Study: include the conceptual/theoretical framework, method, data collection, and analysis procedures.
- 11. Dissemination plan by TESOL-2 • Statement of Significance: How does this project contribute to the larger knowledge base? How will it influence your practice/scholarship? How does it benefit learners and other key stakeholders? • Consent: What kinds of consent (e.g., verbal, written) will you require? How will you obtain consent from participants? • Statement of Ethics: How you will account for the ethical demands that may arise during the inquiry process, including issues of consent, confidentiality, privacy, and reciprocity for participants (i.e., what’s in it for them)? • Dissemination Plan: In addition to listing which professional face-to-face event you plan to share your inquiry (TESOL or other) and why that particular event, how will you disseminate your findings? What other ideas do you have for presenting and/or sharing your research?
- 12. Research –Assessment Criteria • 20 points: Strength of the research-practitioner collaboration through design, implementation, and interpretation. • 20 points: Feasibility of the project (in terms of scope, time, budget ) • 20 points: Relevance to themes in the TESOL Research Agenda, and contribution to the knowledge base. • 20 points: Quality of the writing i.e., clarity, organization, and design (method, data, analysis) • 10 points: Evidence of familiarity with current scholarship supporting the inquiry • 5 points: Impact on applicant’s practice and/or scholarship • 5 points: Strength of dissemination plan
- 13. Check approved research projects • https://icssr.org/research-projects Indian council of social science research • TESOL Grant Recipients/ Grant Winners • TESOL Research agenda • SERB- http://www.serb.gov.in/ApprovedProjects.php- Science and Engineering • https://www.ugc.ac.in/oldpdf/xplanpdf/researchfundingcouncilMRP. pdf Research funding council for major and minor research projects
- 14. Reference • Brough, P., & Hawkes, A. (2018). Designing impactful research. In Advanced research methods for applied psychology (pp. 19-26). Routledge.
- 15. Dr.S.Vijayakumar Assistant Professor Crescent Institute of Science & Technology For workshops and Presentations on research contact: Mobile:9940187775 [email protected]
- 16. Any questions