1. Why Do We NeedWhy Do We Need Research?Research? Orientation to New Teachers 2013 (BHC) 6/30/13 Joseph Anbarasu

2. Teaching and Research Teaching answers questions What? How? Research answers the question Why? 6/30/13 Joseph Anbarasu 3. Role of Research inRole of Research in Teaching?Teaching? 6/30/13 Joseph Anbarasu 4. Research That includes Visiting archives, Library research, Fieldwork, etc., Mostly involves constant writing. Expected to publish consistently in top journals and To write books in order to keep our jobs. 6/30/13 Joseph Anbarasu 5. Publications To write book reviews Make other such contributions to our field of study on a regular basis. This includes major work like editing series of books, as minor work like writing articles for encyclopaedias. 6/30/13 Joseph Anbarasu 6. Research Advise Advising students, which takes up MUCH more of our time. Review their work constantly, Helping them to ready their theses and dissertations for submission and defence. Help them prepare for the job market in other ways, Reviewing their paper proposals 6/30/13 Joseph Anbarasu 7. Committee work Departmental committees, University committees, Nationwide committees International forums to specific to our field of study. Committees have varied tasks, but all involve lots of meeting time, paperwork and research. 6/30/13 Joseph Anbarasu 8. Curriculum Development Revising the curriculum Attend seminars and workshops to hone our teaching skills. Program review every few years, generating all sorts of qualitative and quantitative reports on our department's curriculum and pedagogy. Research is at the centre 6/30/13 Joseph Anbarasu 9. Grants Funds for our own research. Spend lots of time finding available grants, Applying for them. Needs Strong Research Background 6/30/13 Joseph Anbarasu 10. Presentation and Research Presenting our work at conferences at least once a year. Writing up proposals for conferences, hoping to be selected to present on our work in progress. Competitive process, one must submit proposals to many conferences in order to be selected to present at least one. Impossible without research 6/30/13 Joseph Anbarasu 11. Invited Lectures We give lectures at other institutions when invited. Display your Skills and Share Research alone helps 6/30/13 Joseph Anbarasu 12. 6/30/13 Joseph Anbarasu Einstein on Research If we know what was we were doing, it will not be called research, would it?