Certificates in Research For Social Action
Building field research capacity for social sector practitioners
Azim Premji University’s Research for Social Action Certificates Programme aims to enhance the capacity of the social sector in doing field study, analysing the data and writing about it. While the social sector makes significant contributions to social change, it is equally necessary to build adequate capacities in the sector to leverage the power of research in forwarding and deepening the possibilities of social action. Social sector organisations and individuals can benefit from this programme, in doing a base line, endline, monitoring and evaluation, case study writing and data visualisation. Thus, the Research for Social Programme adapts research to everyday needs of the social sector organisations and individuals rather than for academic outcomes.
We offer three qualification certificates as per UGC norms.
- Research design and primary data collection
- Quantitative Analysis and Data visualisation
- Participatory Approaches and Case Study Writing
Participants can enrol into any of these certificates, in any sequence. The first certificate has three courses. The second and third certificates have two courses each.
The medium of instruction will be English.
Who will benefit from the programme
The programme is designed for professionals with a minimum of 2 years of work experience from social sector organisations, social movements, thematic action networks, activist groups, and development media.
Practitioners involved in activities like quantitative and qualitative monitoring of programmes, project design, data collection, analysis, documentation, writing case studies, among others will benefit from this course.
Hear from our Alumni on how this course can benefit you and your organisation:
The programme has three certificates, each for 2.5 weeks on campus, to be delivered as per the yearly calendar of the university. All courses in a certificate will run parallelly for 6 days a week.
Courses have class transactions, hands-on work, readings, presentations and some amount of field work. Each course has 2 or 3 graded assessments.
This programme can be continued alongside work, if the participant wishes to do so.
Accommodation will be provided at the University to all participants. This includes access to WiFi and the library (including remote access), cafeteria, academic and social events, indoor and outdoor games.
