PIM workshop on research

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The PIM Research Centre, the research arm of the PIM, conducted a workshop on 16 May, at the Institute for those who wish to complete literature review and conceptualisation, as well as develop skills to structure journal articles and develop their Ph.D. thesis.

PIM Director Professor Uditha Liyanage, inaugurating the workshop, stated that although we now talk of creating a knowledge society, it was Venerable Soratha, the Chief Prelate of the Vidyodaya Privena, who applied the stanza, “Vijja Uppattang Settha” for the motto of the Vidyodaya University. It meant “Among all who rise, knowledge is the greatest”. Creating knowledge is the prime objective of a knowledge society. He stated that although academics disseminate knowledge and professionals apply that knowledge, it is the researcher who creates knowledge. In this sense, knowledge doesn’t exist sans the researcher. It is, therefore, the researcher who is pivotal and central in creating knowledge.

Professor Liyanage also spelt out the objectives of the newly established Research Centre, which is the research arm of the PIM. The Research Centre intends to develop researchers capable of creating cutting-edge knowledge and adding value to industry by addressing contemporary management and leadership issues.

The workshop was conducted by PIM Head of Research Centre Dr. J. A. S. K. Jayakody and Swinburne University of Technology Australia, Professor of International Business, Faculty of Business and Enterprise Prof. Christopher Selvarajah.

The workshop, inter alia, covered the following aspects:

Gap spotting and problematisation for generating research questions, literature review in Ph.D. thesis and journal articles, conceptualisation as an intellectual journey, logic-based and evidence-based writing, structuring journal articles, meeting peers before editors and moving from thesis to journal articles.

The workshop was attended by university academics as well as those presently engaged in doing their Ph.D. as well as those writing research articles.