The following five pre-conference workshops (with limited seats and on payment) are organized on 28th December 2016. Interested participants for the workshops should send in your CV with a covering letter via email to the Local Workshop Coordinator Dr. Lata Dyaram at naopiitm2016@gmail.com and please mention the name of the workshop clearly in the subject line.
How to apply for pre-conference workshops:
- Young faculty/post-doctoral fellows/senior PhD scholars and students are encouraged to participate. Participants will be selected based on their specialization, interest and background.
- Maximum number of participants per workshop is 25.
- All pre-conference workshops will take place simultaneously; hence, one participant may register only for one workshop. No request for change will be entertained later.
- Please note that you may be given some homework in the form of readings prior to the workshop. Some workshops may require basic computer skills.
Registration Fee: Registration fee is Rs.2000/- for one day workshop and Rs.1500 for half-day workshop. Fee for the workshop must be paid in advance by November 15, 2016. Bank details along with registration and payment details are available in the registration tab of the website.
Full-Day Workshops
Workshop 1: Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)
Resource Persons: Prof. Damodar Suar, Sitanshu Sekhar Das, Priya Alat, Amrit K Jha
Prof. Suar has over 30 years of work experience. His current research interests are in social and organizational psychology , and neuropsychology. Also, three doctoral students are resource persons with him. This workshop aims to a) provide the state-of-the-art knowledge of CB-SEM and PLS-SEM; b) familiarize participants with the usage of application-software: SPSS, AMOS, and SMARTPLS and c) equip teachers and researchers with the desired skills to handle complex research models. The workshop will include fundamentals of multiple regression, exploratory factor analysis, CB-SEM, confirmatory factor analysis, path analysis, structural regression models, fit indices, AMOS package and graphic interface, PLS-SEM, outer model and inner model, fit indices, SMARTPLS and graphic interface, testing reliability, validity, moderating and mediating effects.
Workshop 2: Methods in Cognitive Science
Resource Persons:Prof. Narayanan Srinivasan, Dr. Supriya Ray, Dr. Bhoomika R. Kar, Dr. Chandrasekhar Pammi, and CBCS, Allahabad University; Dr. Devpriya Kumar and Dr. Ark Verma, IIT Kanpur.
This workshop will introduce participants to different methodologies that are used to study cognitive processes including psychophysics, eye tracking, EEG/ERP and functional MRI. These different methods could be employed to investigate the temporal and spatial dynamics of cognitive processes such as attention, memory, decision-making, language processing and emotions. Theory sessions will be followed by lab sessions to train the participants in designing behavioral experiments using software like E Prime and analysis of MRI data using SPM.
Workshop 3: Grounded Theory Method in Psychology
Resource Persons:Dr. Kumar Ravi Priya, Associate Professor of Psychology , Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
Grounded Theory Method (GTM) is, as per literature, the most frequently used qualitative research method in social science and Psychology. It is so not just due to the popular notions of ‘developing theory inductively grounded in data’ but its amenability to help scientifically develop insights about the experiences, perspectives and worldviews of various stakeholders in the context of social/political phenomena, health and mental health issues, organizational or institutional settings and the field of education. In Psychology , this methodology is being utilized predominantly in the areas of health psychology , clinical psychology and educational psychology (that are growing towards being interdisciplinary sciences) besides showing its constantly growing use in its most other sub-disciplines and the allied domains of management and nursing science.This one-day workshop can be of interest for the researchers in the field of psychology and allied social science who want to learn the scientific approach of: (a) locating GTM in the scientific paradigms of qualitative research methodology, (b) generating contextually ‘rich’ qualitative data, (c) analyzing qualitative data (coding and memo writing), and (d) establishing scientific rigour of the findings. The workshop also provides a first-hand experience of how the scientific approaches of GTM can be applied in various domains of psychology that adhere to diverse perspectives and paradigms and how, if research questions demand so, it may be supplemented with test construction and further quantitative analysis.
Dr. Kumar Ravi Priya has been serving as an associate professor of psychology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur since March, 2012. He joined IIT Kanpur as a faculty in 2006. Utilizing ethnography and grounded theory method in conducting and supervising research in the field of wellbeing and mental health among population at risk and disaster survivors, Dr. Priya has published in various national and international conference proceedings and numerous peer-reviewed journals of national and international repute. His international publications are in journals such as Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, Qualitative Research, Qualitative Health Research and Qualitative Research in Psychology. Some of the reputed national journals that he has published his research work in are Economic and Political Weekly, Journal of Health Management, Psychology and Developing Societies, Psychological Studies, and Eastern Anthropologist. He has co-edited a book in 2015, Qualitative Research on Illness, Wellbeing and Self-Growth: Contemporary Indian Perspective published by Routledge (Taylor Francis). The universities and institutes where he has conducted workshops on qualitative research methods are IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, NMIMS (Mumbai), Calcutta University, Indira Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya (Wardha), Indian Psychology Institute (Pondicherry), Jadavpur University, University of Allahabad, JamiaMilliaIslamia and DDU Gorakhpur University.
Half-Day Workshops
Workshop 4: Psychology of Fulfillment in the Workplace.
Resource Person:Mr. Arul Dev, Founder CEO, People First Consultants P Ltd, Integral Facilitator and ACCTM Certified Coach
The workshop will include an experiential exploration and group coaching into what enables the experience of fulfillment in the workplace. Enquiry into the process of discovering and honoring individual purpose, values and natural strengths through one’s job role and discovering how to sense and contribute to the purpose, core values and unique value proposition of your organization or institution will be the key objectives of this workshop.
Workshop 5: Use of Qualitative Techniques and Importance of Mixed Methods in Psychological Research.
Resource Persons: Dr. Sadhana Natu (Associate Professor and Head, Dept of Psychology Modern College, Ganeshkhind, Pune University) and Dr. Shilpa Pandit (Independent researcher and consultant UNDP)
Dr. Natu has more than 25 years of experience in action research, field research and training for social science research. Her areas of engagement include youth and mental health, gender, psychology and development, community mental health. She has been an Adviser and Evaluator for several Nongovernmental organisations working in these areas such as Mahila Sarvangeen Utkarsh Mandal (MASUM) Pune and Bapu Trust for Mind and Discourse, Pune to name a few. Dr. Pandit has more than 15 years of experience in Field research and Training for Social Science Research. Her research in the recent years has been on poverty and livelihoods. She has deep experience in gender and youth issues and is a founder trustee of a non-government organization Dream Path Foundation based in Bengaluru. Dream Path Foundation works with adolescent and youth and engages with them on issues relating to careers, livelihoods and life skills.The workshop will cover the rationale of qualitative research, an overview of qualitative research methods, hands on exercises, importance of mixed methods, illustrations and exercises on mixed methods, relevance in current psychological research.
The workshop will cover the rationale of qualitative research, an overview of qualitative research methods, hands on exercises, importance of mixed methods, illustrations and exercises on mixed methods, relevance in current psychological research.
Interested participants for the workshops should send in your CV with a covering letter via email to the Local Workshop Coordinator Dr. Lata Dyaram at naopiitm2016@gmail.com and please mention the name of the workshop clearly in the subject line.
Kumar Ravi Priya
IIT Kanpur
