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Mangaluru, Aug 14: A workshop on 'Qualitative Research' was recently organised at St Agnes Centre for PG Studies and Research by the department of Clinical Psychology under the guidance of Sr Dr Vinora AC, principal of the department of Clinical Psychology and PG coordinator of the college, Dr Kavyashree K B, HOD of the department of Clinical Psychology and Shruti Rajan Kappil, assistant professor in the department of Clinical Psychology.

The resource person for the day was Dan Isaac Pothiyil, a senior scale assistant professor in the department of Clinical Psychology at Manipal College of Health Professions whose expertise lies in the areas of CBT, sex therapy, school psychology, child and adolescent psychotherapy, suicide prevention intervention, learning enhancement intervention, qualitative research in psychology and test construction.

The workshop was intended to enlighten the participants on the techniques of conducting a qualitative research and ways of analyzing data obtained from this type of research.

The workshop began with a silent prayer. The MC was Vasudha V C, MSc student. Shruti Rajan Kappil, assistant professor in the department of Clinical Psychology of the college introduced and welcomed the esteemed resource person.

The first session was from 9.30 am. to 1.00 pm. Pothiyil started his first session by giving an outline of qualitative research. Some of the topics covered were: Characteristics and Aims of Qualitative Research, The Components of Qualitative Research and Research Design.

This was followed by an interactive session on 'Do’s and Don’ts in a Qualitative Research'. In the second session Pothiyil gave an in depth information on thematic analysis and guided each participant group on how to analyze the research data manually and by using software while doing a thematic analysis through an interactive session.

The workshop ended with a feedback session. Arathy Chandran, I MSc student proposed the vote of thanks.