[MTC Global] Identifying Research Gaps: Whose Job It? If it is of Ph.D. aspirants, are they given enough time?

Identifying Research Gaps: Whose Job It? If it is of Ph.D. aspirants, are they given enough time?

To get enrolled into Ph.D. programs, the aspirants should have a clear agenda on the objectives of research; identified research gaps turn into research objectives a.k.a. hypotheses. These will be incorporated into research proposal.

Universities can give hardly a month's time which is hardly enough to do literature review, identify the research gaps and crystallize the objectives. This means that aspirants should have already read enough for over a year or so before making a Ph.D. research proposal. If an aspirant is making a proposal in just 15 days, does such exercise reflect worthy research objectives? Ph.D. aspirants should have been working much before the enrolment process starts. This is the desirable scenario One.

Or else, university departments ( their professors-guides) should have already identified the research gaps to be assigned to the fresh Ph.D. candidates, as Prof. Prabhaka Woghedonker has mentioned in his article. Universities should publish the researchable areas so that the interested aspirants will take them up for their Ph.D. research. This is the desirable scenario Two.

But, are university professors and guides putting in enough time on this, given that they get a lot of non-academic work like evaluations etc.

How to see that these two scenarios prevail in our field?

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Prof. Dr. Appalayya Meesala
Director
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Institute of Management & Technology
Baghlingampally
Hyderabad- 500044
College Land line: 040-27670675
Mobile: 0- 9848514011
Our college website: www.ambedkarcollege.com
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Contact me for help on Research Design, Survey Data Analysis, Research Article Writing, and Ph. D. issues.

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