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Critical Literature Review and Central Research Question: Designing a Research Proposal

Dr Brainerd PrinceWe concluded the last issue by saying that once we have used the technique of committed reading and read through the key texts of the critical bibliography we had put together on the thematic,

Infocus / 1st May 2023
The Art of Committed Reading

Designing a Research ProposalDr Brainerd PrinceWe have indeed arrived at our academic home in the mountain. We have located the research community or the academic discipline in which we want to locate our resea

Infocus / 10th April 2023
MEMORIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Untangling the Conundrum of Digital Memorabilia

Nainika GuptaWith the advent of the digital age, technologies such as the internet have become an irreplaceable part of our lives. Interacting with the internet every day is almost unavoidable; people cannot he

Infocus / 4th April 2023
The Start-up Paradox Inventing New Wineskins

Dr Brainerd PrinceI have always found myself happy and thriving in the first stage of a start-up. There is a certain adrenaline rush, with all the buzz – late nights of never-ending work, exciting conversatio

Infocus / 6th March 2023
The White Owl and Plaksha University sign MoU

Dimapur, February 18 (MExN): The White Owl and the Centre for Thinking, Language and Communication, Plaksha University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together in the broad areas of acad

Nagaland / 18th February 2023
Locating your Community: Academic Discipline and Research Thematic

Dr Brainerd PrinceThe bags are packed, the water bottle shut tight, and the rucksack firmly secured on the back. The researcher, all tooled up, is ready to begin her climb.She is very clear in her head about wh

Infocus / 6th February 2023
Techne+Logos: How the Etymology of Technology can Reform Learning?

Harleen BaggaMany students would likely cite the desire to learn as the primary reason for committing to four years of college. But what do we really mean when we use the word “learn”? It is something we do

Infocus / 1st February 2023
Economic Policy’s Courtship with Data Analysis

Nimrat KaurPlaksha UniversityData is something we have all heard of but need to learn more about. At times, it is even something that scares us. We are sceptical of data and the possibility that it might lead t

Infocus / 10th January 2023
Rules of the Academic Mountain Tooling up for Research

Dr Brainerd PrinceWe have used the image and metaphor of the mountain as a place to do academic work, away from the city. We find ourselves at the foot of the academic mountain. We have identified a real-life p

Infocus / 3rd January 2023
Approaching the Academic Mountain - Embarking on the Research Journey

Dr Brainerd PrinceA quick review, ofwhere we have got in this story so far,might be useful in setting the context for our next steps. We began with being in a posture of an authentic search in which we fin

Infocus / 20th December 2022
VOCALOIDS: Re-imagining AI in Music

Zoya GhoshalVocaloid. An interesting term, right? Probably a word you never heard of before. But the term ‘vocal’ should ring a few bells.A Vocaloid, in essence, is a new type of voice synthesizing technolo

Infocus / 5th December 2022
A public engineer: From ‘Innovating-for’ to ‘Innovating-with’

ApoorvKatochCTLC Fellow, Plaksha University‘Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world’ – Isaac Asimov. The above quote by the Russian born writer and profes

Infocus / 1st November 2022
Growing Intentionality: From Observation to Birthing a Response

Dr Brainerd PrinceThis last month, I have been teaching about ‘intentionality’. The word is an abstract noun, and hence is quite distant from our everyday usage. Frequently used terms that are connected to

Infocus / 31st October 2022
The Gender Divide around Accessibility to Technology

Nitika BanhaniThe Government of India has been aggressively advocating for a revolution in education, healthcare, banking, and travel. Technology is one among the many drivers executing the government’s visio

Infocus / 5th October 2022
Writing the Children: Discovering the Theme for Life and Research

Dr Brainerd PrinceWe have been talking about children under the bridge in the past few issues and how our response to them gives us a vision for life and research. We began the story with our observation of the

Infocus / 3rd October 2022
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Wildlife Conservation

Mayanglambam Pooja DeviThe relationship between humans and nature has increasingly become unequal and exploitative. Man has caused immense environmental destruction such as habitat degradation, overexploitation

Infocus / 6th September 2022
REMEMBERING THE CHILDREN: The Art and Science of Reflection

Dr Brainerd PrinceIn the last issue we left the story at how we discover our life’s calling and inspiration for our research through a life-transforming experience, which we called the experience of the child

Infocus / 5th September 2022
Inventing the Future: Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Tool for a Better Future

Alli Ajagbe“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race…it would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by sl

Infocus / 9th August 2022
Inventing the Future: Is the new age Green Revolution of India here?

Gene-edited crops powered by CRISPR to address our food security problemsMaanal Gauri, Nainika Gupta, Nandan Mandal, Navjot Kaur, Samhitha Samishetty, Shivank Joshi, and Suhani ShrivastavaDid you know that

Infocus / 5th July 2022
Inventing the Future: The Privacy Crisis

Maanal Gauri, Abhigyan Mehrotra, Prachi Parakh, Vaishnavi Rathi, Tanya Sravan Plaksha UniversityMark Zuckerburg bought an island to protect his privacy. What are you doing to protect yours?As we all know,

Infocus / 3rd May 2022