Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 21: Sadaf Munshi, Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, College of Information, University of North Texas, USA, delivered a lecture during International Webinar Series, organised by UGC-HRDC University of Kashmir on Tuesday.
Delivering her lecture on the topic, “Writing proposals for research grants” Prof Sadaf Munshi discussed at length about the important terminology and various components of research grant proposals besides importance of planning and identity of grant programmes, potential grant sources, support, benefits, limitations, risks and challenges involved in writing and seeking research grants.
The participants were actively engaged in the session and asked many questions while Prof Sadaf expressed her desire to engage with a smaller but more involved group some time in future. This international webinar was organized in collaboration with Prof Sadaf’s department at the University of North Texas, USA.
Earlier welcoming the speaker, Director, UGC-HRDC, University of Kashmir, Prof Shabir Ahmad Bhat stated that HRDC has been engaged in capacity building of teachers and scholars over the past thirty two years and has over the period trained around 8000 teachers in various aspects of academics and research. Stressing upon the need for conducting more research methodology webinars for research scholars, Prof Shabir underscored the importance of present lecture on writing robust proposals for obtaining research grants from national and international funding agencies.
Dr Mohammad Ishaq Geer, Coordinator, UGC-HRDC highlighted the role of HRDC and informed that the next lecture in the series shall be delivered on July 28th at 10 am (IST) by Dr Tasaduq Hussain Mir of the UT Southwestern Medical Centres, Texas, USA on the topic, “Social prescribing transforming doctor-patient relationship.”