Capacity Building Program in Higher Education: A Study of Research Methodology Program in Social Sciences for Northern India

In higher education, the capacity building program primarily focuses on the training of research methodology courses entitled “Quantitative Research Methodology” and “Qualitative Research Methodology” in Social Sciences for Ph.D. Students. The students enrolled for their Ph.D. in Social Sciences disciplines as Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, Economics, Geography etc. got an opportunity for training in research methodology. For participation in the training program the priority was given to the students from the Delhi State’s Universities and the neighbouring States’ Universities and Institutions from the National Capital Region and the Northern States of the country, India. In other words, the training program was meant for students from the northern region universities of India. Besides this, the outstanding and distinguished experts in research methodology were invited to deliver the lectures and tutorials in the different sessions of the training program. The sessions of the program have been effectively and efficiently designed according to the needs of the students as live-interactive sessions, computer laboratory sessions, seminar library sessions and field visit sessions and so on in order to apply research methodology to work out the real-world problems solutions for their on-going research work. In this context, the research methodology training program was highly useful for the Ph.D. Students in their higher education research work.