Gender studies must during pandemic: Expert

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 11

Prof Pradeep Krishnatray, Director, Research and Strategic Planning at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said gender studies needed to be carried out during the Covid pandemic.

He was addressing participants at the two-week refresher course in mass communication and media technology at Kurukshetra University through Google meet.

He said the coverage of the issues particularly on women, during the Covid pandemic, could be well presented with a thorough research. He also said during the pandemic, children were facing difficulties in taking online classes.

In other session, Sumit Narula, director, Amity School of Communication, Amity University, Gwalior, said one should check once about the UGC-approved list of journals before sending research articles for publication. In universities, the professors are asked to send research papers and articles to get published in the journals for promotions and increments. “For research scholars, it is a must to publish their two research articles regarding their PhD topic to get their doctoral degree,” he added.

Narula also enlightened about fake, predatory, and cloned journals to the media educators from across India in the refresher course. He also talked about some fact check websites and URL links. He explained how to cross-check the UGC- care list and the fake journal URLs.