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18 GURU-DAKSHTA Faculty Induction Programme (FIP)
Module 6: Research, Professional Development and Academic

Leadership

Objective :
Enabling participants to acquire research skills, leadership qualities and facilitating one’s own.
professional development

Expected Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the course the participants will be able to:

- Understand dynamics of academic leadership
- Reflect on the role of research in teaching and overall professional development
- Discuss ways of ensuring integrity and ethics in conducting research

- List out ideas for conducting interdisciplinary and collaborative research studies; action
researches

- Formulate strategies for engaging in meaningful research
Focus areas/themes:
3 Conceiving both teaching and research to strengthen the connections between the two

3 Building effective teaching-research links at the curriculum level
3 Designing inter-disciplinary and collaborative research projects in specific disciplines

3 Conducting Discipline-specific Research: planning, and writing a research proposal, funding
opportunities, involving students in research
3 Quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods of research

3 Software tools for research and for plagiarism check: Latex, Bibliographic, End Note, BibTex,
Turnitin, Statistical, other open-sources tools; data in the public domain
3 Preparing to become a PhD guide: roles and responsibilities

3 Mapping community needs for Socially Useful research
3 Research ethics- Academic honesty and integrity, Consent and its implications, Converting a
thesis into authentic publication ready material

3 Importance of and strategies for staying updated with developments in teaching and in one’s
own discipline
3 Associating with professional teachers and discipline-related organisations- Need, how to
draw best out of them for professional growth, Cases/ Examples for organisations role in
professional upliftment of teachers

3 Opportunities for Continuing Professional Development- National International, Government
and Nongovernment
3 Fundamentals of Strategic and Transformational leadership

3 Developing organisation aspiration and strategy for growth
3 Different kinds of leadership – results-oriented leadership, creative leadership, leading for
creative results