A two- day international workshop was organised by the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication of Central University of Odisha (CUO) here for the PG students and research scholars on December 14 and 15.
The workshop was inaugurated by Vice-Chancellor, CUO, Professor SK Palita in the presence of Visiting Professors of the department, Prof Akshay Rout and Professor Sunil Kanta Behera. Head I/C and ChairmanDr Pradosh Kumar Rath welcomed the guests on dais. Prof Palita in his inaugural address stressed on the importance of organizing regular activities in the department for making the students knowledgeable and employable.
Assistant Professor, DJMC and Convener of the International Workshop Dr Sourav Gupta explained that the purpose of organising the workshop was to expose the students and research scholars to the latest concepts and recent trends of communication research and the rigor associated with quality research.
Dr Gupta thanked Prof S K Palita for being the inspiration behind the workshop. Both Prof Akshay Rout and Prof SK Behera wished the workshop a grand success and asserted that it was a good decision by the department to have a workshop of the stature with eminent resource persons. Dr Sony Parhi, Faculty, DJMC proposed the vote of thanks of the inaugural session.
On December 14, Professor Srinivas R Melkote, Professor Emeritus, School of Media and Communication, Bowling Green State University, Ohio took a session on Quantitative and Qualitative Paradigms of Research followed by a session by Professor Vinod Pavarala, Former Dean and Head, Dept. of Communication, SN School and UNESCO Chair on Community Media, University of Hyderabad on Grounded Theory Approach to Research. The next day, Professor Biswajit Das, Founding Director, Centre for Culture , Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi delivered a talk titled, Imagining Research and Professor Mohan J Dutta, Dean’s Chair Professor and Director, CARE, Massey University, New Zealand spoke about Culture Centered Approach. All the sessions included exhaustive interactive session between the Resource Persons, Faculty members and students.
