About this ebook
If the aim of a PhD is to develop the skills of a professional academic researcher, how should you go about it? Using the principles of skill development as a foundation, this book provides a unique approach to the most common challenges of PhD research, including: - getting to know the literature in your field - developing your research ideas - becoming a better academic writer - coping with the stress and unpredictability of research - publications and presentations - Writing, submitting and defending your thesis.
This book ‘A Complete Guide to PhD Degree: A Hand Book for Research Scholars and their Supervisors’ in an Indian Context is an outcome of not just efforts from the authors, but contributions by many Research Scholars. We take this opportunity to thank all those who supported in publication of this book. Many research scholars have been kind enough to share their research works in form of Synopsis, Thesis, Summary, Video of PhD Open Defence & Power-point presentations, MCQs in google from etc, so that a larger section of the aspiring researchers can take a guideline in formulation of their own research work.
This Book also contains useful QR codes for direct link to various folders and files on the drive for Sample Ph.D Thesis, Synopsis , Summary, Videos of Open Defence Exam, Google form MCQs for Entrance Test & Pre-PhD Course work Exam, PPT Presentation etc, Syllabi for UGC NET Paper-I, MHRDC- Pre-Phd Course Work & important websites related to PhD.
First and the foremost we are thankful to Dr.B.B. Taywade, Ex-Principal, Dhanwate National College, Nagpur who is the guiding and inspiring force for us
and for encouraging us to take up such types of academic endeavour. He is in a true sense the mentor and a philosopher for us.
We are thankful to Harshal Dharmare and Nidhi Somani faculty of BBA, DNC for helping us in manuscript preparation and proofreading of this book.
We owe to many authors and websites whose writings formed the basis for this book. Our special acknowledgment and thanks to Indira Gandhi Open University, New Delhi and their open source websites www.ignou.ac.in & www.egyankosh.ac.in . We also take this opportunity to thank Eliva Press SRL Chisinau, Moldova, Europe for the publication of this book.
At the end we would like to say that there is always a room for improvement in whatever we do. We would appreciate any suggestions and feedback regarding this book from the readers on mukulburghate@gmail.com so that the book can be made more interesting and meaningful.
About the author
Mukul Burghate is a Fellow of Institute of Engineers (Kolkata) and a graduate of Civil Engineering from Pune University. He is an alumnus of the Department of Management Sciences of Pune University (Now Known as Savitribai Phule Pune University-SPPU). He has also to his laurel’s various other degrees like M.Com & PGDBIO. He cleared SET (Commerce) in the year 2000 and is exempted from NET Exam. He was awarded PhD on Thesis entitled ‘A study of Advertising Agencies in India: A Status Report’ under the Supervision of Dr. S.S. Kaptan, Savarkar Chair and Ex-Professor and Head, Dept. of Commerce, Savitribai Phule University Pune from SGB Amravati University, Amravati.
He is presently serving as an Associate Professor for last 21 years and has successfully played multiple roles at the Department of MBA of Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Institute of Management Technology and Research, Nagpur. He is also a faculty member of NMIMS Global Access School for Continuing Education (Online education arm of NMIMS), Mumbai and Symbiosis Centre for Online Learning (SCOL), Pune. He has thorough experience in ODL education of IGNOU as a Coordinator & Counsellor for the last 10 years.
He is nominated Member, Board of Studies (BoS) with Symbiosis Skills and Professional University (SSPU), Pune; Indira College of Commerce and Science(ICCS), Pune & RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur
He has a total of 23 years of teaching and industry experience blended with 15 years of research practice in the field of Management and Commerce. A total of 09 students have completed their PhD under his able Supervision and 07 students of MPhil (Commerce) have successfully cleared their research dissertation.
He has authored, published and presented more than 41 papers in International, National and State Journals, Conferences and Seminars including Scopus Indexed, UGC CARE list etc. He has also chaired technical sessions in many International and State Conferences & Seminars.
