SRINAGAR: 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.
She hoped that the lecture will be useful to the participants in providing them a broader insight into the grant writing process and also in giving them some useful tips about writing potentially successful grant applications.
Prof. Munshi was overwhelmed by the huge response that the webinar had received as well as by the positive feedback provided by the participants at the end of her lecture. Further she said that the participants were actively engaged in the session and asked many questions and expressed her desire to engage with a smaller but more involved group some time in future.
Prof. Sadaf thanked the management of UGC-HRDC, University of Kashmir for organizing this international webinar in collaboration with her department at the University of North Texas, USA and said that she would be looking forward to greater collaboration in future. Earlier welcoming the speaker, Director, UGC-HRDC, University of Kashmir, Prof. Shabir Ahmad Bhat in his inaugural address 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.”