With professors from the Netherlands and Italy, our Center for Women’s Empowerment & Gender Equality, in collaboration with Amrita Center for Research and Development (ACRD), offered a workshop on Defining and Refining – First Steps in Research from January 22 – 23, 2020. This workshop focused on how to conduct a literature review and how to define a research question. In this workshop, PhD students were instructed on how to find literature and write a literature review, how to build our research on the basis of the theory, and how to define and refine a research question.

Dr. Padma Rao Sahib, Associate Professor, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, and Dr. Sandeep Pillai, Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Technology, Bocconi University, Italy, were the instructors for the workshop.