Ethics in Research & Why Is It Important Chief Speaker: Prof. Joyati Bhattacharya, Professor Department of Political Science, and Dean School of Social Sciences, Assam Central

Research ethics is essential in academic research: Prof. Joyati Bhattacharya

A lecture on ‘Ethics in Research and why it is important’ was organized by the Indian Research Scholars Association on Thursday, 22 February 2024 at 4 pm. The keynote speaker of this topic was Prof. Joyati Bhattacharya, Professor, Department of Political Science, Dean School of Social Sciences, Assam Central University. At the beginning of the program, Prof. Bhattacharya congratulated entire office bearers of this IRSA and said that it is necessary to have such forums where students and researchers come together to organize any program. In the beginning of her lecture, she talked about the importance of research, its quality and writing. Major aspects clarified. When any idea is taken from any research paper, it is necessary to give its reference. It should also not be done that if a research paper has not been read and its reference is given, then all these aspects come under plagiarism. For this, while sharing the social scientists of Indian, American, Australia and Iraq and the research techniques being adopted by them, he said that the circumstances in social sciences keep changing according to the region and circumstances. Literature related to the subject in which research is being done should be studied and then the problem should be selected. she also said that the quality of research proposals in social science subjects in India is low. Original ideas are rarely seen in research papers. If the problems in social science subjects are identified, then sufficient facts can be referred to, due to which the originality of the research becomes clear. Therefore, it is necessary that research be done with adequate facts and arguments. Research work should be started only after studying the literature related to the topic. she has shared empirical experiences her editing , she said that if quantitative research is done in the research and the hypothesis is not tested, then the title of the research paper remains different and the subject matter of the research is different, then in such a situation the research paper’s The quality becomes very low. For this, it is necessary that the literature related to the title selected should be studied and compiled in the research. In his lecture, she expressed his views on the importance of research and he told that one should choose the research topic as per one’s interest so that the quality of originality will be seen in the research. One should never ask anyone or take other people’s topics, rather You should choose the subject after understanding it yourself. At the beginning of the program, welcome address was given by Vikas Kumar, Researcher, Department of Political Science and Human Rights, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak. He welcomed and congratulated to Prof. Bhattacharya and explained the nature of the program. This lecture was conducted by Shubhangi, Researcher and the guest was introduced by Naina Prasad, Researcher, Wardha. This program was co-coordinated by Dhiresh, Research Scholar, JNU and the other co-coordinator was Krishna Mohan, Research Scholar, BHU. The secretary of the program was Papi Haldar, research scholar, Lucknow University. At the end of the program, many curiosities of the research scholars and students were resolved through a question-and-answer session. All the listeners benefited from the thoughts of our chief guest. Many researchers, students and listeners were present in this lecture. Ashwani Kumar, Shikha Goyal, Sneha Yadav, Jogendra Singh, Priya Mishra, Kamlesh, Jyoti and Pushpalata.