Pre-Doctoral Coursework in Social Workand Applied Social Sciences
The department of social work enjoys the privilege of operating as the Nodal Centre for the Utkal University to conduct pre-doctoral coursework programme in Social Work.
Social Research Methodology Course for Ph.D. Scholars in Social Work and Applied Social Sciences
Course structure
- Dimensions of Social Work Research
- Theory and Research
- Approaches in Social Science Research:
- Positivist, Interpretive, Critical, Feminist and Post Modern
- Research Designs – Quantitative and Qualitative Orientation in Social Work Research
- Quantitative Design Issues: Variables and Hypotheses, Causal Relationships and Hypothesis
- Formulation of Research Question and hypotheses
- Quantitative Social Work Research: Experiment Research, Survey Research, Content Analyis
- Qualitative Design Issues 1: Cases and Contexts
- Qualitative Design Issues 2: Grounded Theory, Bricolage, Interpretation
- Refining Research Topics: Qualitative Social Work Research
- Qualitative Social Work Research: Field Research, Historical – Comparative Study
- Quantitative Measurement: Conceptualization and Operationalization
- Quantitative Social Work Research – Reliability and Validity
- Quantitative Measurement – Construction
- Quantitative Measurement – Scales
- Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Sampling
- Non-Probability Sampling – I
- Non-Probability Sampling – II
- Probability Sampling – I
- Probability Sampling – II
- Qualitative Data Collection
- Data Collection in Experimental Research
- Data Collection in Survey Research – Steps in Conducting a Survey, Constructing the Questionnaire, Types of Surveys, Interviewing
- Data Mining and Secondary Research – Documentation, Content Analysis, Secondary Analysis
- Qualitative Measurement – Conceptualization and Operationalization
- Qualitative Data Collection in Field Research
- Qualitative Data Collection in Evaluation Research
- Ethical Dilemmas in Qualitative Research
- Quantitative Data Analysis using SPSS
- Handling Data – Coding Data, Entering Data, Cleaning Data
- Univariate Analysis – Frequency Distribution, Measures of Central Tendency, Measures of Variation
- Bivariate Analysis – Bivariate Tables, Measures of Correlation
- Multivariate Analysis – Constructing Trivariate Tables, Regression Analysis
- Quantitative Data Analysis using SPSS: Inferential Statistics
- Qualitative Data Analysis – Concept Formation
- Methods of Qualitative Data Analysis
Contact: Dr Sashmi Nayak
Professor – Department of Social Work
Email: sashmi.nayak@niswass.org
Phone: +91 9556735020