The FPM Department at JIMS, Rohini organized a three-day FDP on ‘Qualitative Research Methodology: Foundations and Data Analysis’ from 18th-20th May’2022 at its campus. The key resource persons for the FDP were Dr. C.S. Sharma, Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), Delhi University and Dr. H.K. Dangi, Professor, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. About thirty participants including faculty members and research scholars attended the program.
Day 1: 18th May 2022
Dr. Sharma started the session with the basics of research. He talked about the motivation behind doing research and asked the participants to share their motivations behind doing research. He then talked about the philosophical background of research and briefed about the three schools of thought – Traditional, Modern, and Pre Modern view. Thereafter, Dr. Sharma discussed about epistemology and ontology of qualitative research. Moreover, he explained the difference between constructivism and interpretivism. Later, he explained the usage of these philosophical theories in research. Dr. Sharma concluded the session by discussing the Grounded theory of research.
Day 2: 19th May 2022
The second day of FDP started with the discussion on interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) by Dr. C. S. Sharma. He also conducted a brief exercise wherein participants gained hands-on experience of manually identifying codes, categories, themes and concepts from qualitative data. The second session was conducted by Dr. H. K. Dangi wherein he described how to conduct the qualitative research through NVivo software and differentiated the manual and mechanical experiences of qualitative research. Further, he gave an overview of the NVivo software and explained in detail its features and their usage. In the last session, he discussed how to conduct the content analysis using NVivo software.
Day 3: 20th May 2022
All three sessions on Day 3 were conducted by Dr. H.K. Dangi. He started the first session by explaining Thematic Analysis through various examples and then demonstrated it using NVivo software. Later, he conducted a practice session for participants to gain practical experience on thematic analysis using the software. In the second and third sessions, Dr. Dangi followed the same approach while explaining Sentiment Analysis and Image Analytics with NVivo software. The program concluded with valediction, certificate distribution, and a group photograph