Hyderabad: GITAM organizes two-day ‘National Research Symposium for Students’ to inculcate research in Architecture
Research is a continuous process: Opined guests of the National Research Symposium
‘Research is a continuous process that takes both practice and time. Good researchers continuously ask themselves questions and evaluate where they are in the research process’ opined the guest. GITAM School of Architecture, Hyderabad organized a two-day ‘National Research Symposium for Students’ to inculcate research in Architecture at its campus on July 21-22, 2023. Prof. Jayashree Deshpande, Director, Council of Architecture Training and Research Centre; Prof. Harveen Bhandari, Dean-Research & Scholastic Development, Chitkara University, Punjab have graced as chief guests.
They told that the research process is a continuous cycle. It is a continuous process of checking and re-checking, evaluating and analyzing and repeating the entire process over and over again. The research process enables writers to become subject matter experts and write publishable articles, comments, or case notes, they added.
Prof. Jayashree gave guidance for simple steps that to develop a sense of the question, start reading and discussion, putting together in your own words and present your finding and respond the questions from the audience. She told that the research symposiums are the need of the hour and advised that bring this knowledge to the fraternity in the printed form. Prof. Harveen briefed about the steps involved in a good paper presentation.
The symposium was based on the theme ‘Architecture, Urbanism and Built Environment’ and it was aimed to inculcate the practice of writing research papers by students during their architectural studies.
Earlier, Prof. Sunil Kumar, Director, School of Architecture felicitated the guests. Prof. Kurri Sri Sravanthi, Convener delivered the welcome note and Dr. Souporni Paul, Coordinator proposed the vote of thanks. Vibhuti Sachdev, Dean of Architecture, GSA also participated in this event.
About 15 students across India presented the research paper and 13 students physically participated in this two-day symposium.
