PIM workshop on research issues
View(s):The PIM Research Centre, the research arm of Sri Lanka’s Post Graduate Institute of Management (PIM), conducted a workshop last week for those who wished to complete the literature review and conceptualisation, as well as develop skills to structure journal articles and develop their Ph.D. thesis.
According to a PIM media release, Prof. Uditha Liyanage, Director – PIM, inaugurating the workshop, said that although “we now talk of creating a knowledge society, it was Venerable Soratha, the chief prelate of the Vidyodaya Privena, who applied the stanza ‘Vijja Uppattang Settha’ for the motto of the Vidyodaya University.”
That meant ‘Among all that rise, knowledge is the greatest’. He said creating knowledge is the prime objective of a knowledge society and added that that although academics disseminate knowledge and professionals apply that knowledge, it is the researcher who creates knowledge. In this sense, knowledge doesn’t exist sans the researcher. It is, therefore, the researcher who is pivotal and central in creating knowledge.
Prof. Liyanage also spelt out the objectives of the newly established Research Centre. The Research Centre intends to develop researchers capable of creating cutting-edge knowledge and adding value to industry by addressing contemporary management and leadership issues.
The workshop was conducted by Dr. J.A.S.K. Jayakody, Head, Research Centre, PIM, and Prof. Christopher Selvarajah, Professor of International Business, Faculty of Business and Enterprise, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.
The workshop covered the following aspects:
- Gap spotting and problematization for generating research questions
- Literature review in Ph.D. thesis and journal articles Conceptualization as an intellectual journey
- Logic-based and evidence-based writing
- Structuring journal articles
- Meeting peers before editors
- Moving from thesis to journal articles
The workshop was attended by university academics as well as those who are presently engaged in doing their Ph.D. as well as those writing research articles.
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