The focus of M.Phil research is to empower the significance of research culture and scientific knowledge in areas including, gender, education, health, clinical psychology, developmental psychopathology, developmental psychology, humanistic and transpersonal psychology, psychometry, social and interpersonal psychology and industrial psychology. The M.Phil program consists of 50 credit hours; course work of 24 credit hours and a thesis equivalent to 26 credit hours. To better equip psychology students with scientific research knowledge and expertise certain initiatives have been recently introduced, to enhance and improve the quality and timely completion of the research. These initiatives include:

Research Progress Sheet (MRPS)
M.Phil Progress Sheet is specifically designed to monitor and evaluate each students progress systematically in each semester. The M.Phil Progress Sheet provides each student some specific benchmarks of research to be completed in each semester of M.Phil Program.

Research Group Meeting (RGM)
To have intecative discussions on research related issues a discussion as well interest  group called Research Group has been established.  The Research Group is comprised of all NIP research students of M.Phil and Ph.D. The Research Group Meeting is held once in a month usually the first Saturday of the month The purpose of this Research Group is to provide a forum for higher level research scholars; where they can learn by discussing research related problems, theoretical issues, critical reviews of articles, paper writing, sharing practical experiences of senior members and the brain storming on current research issues. This research group forum provides an excellent opportunity to all research students to remain in contact with their respective supervisors and get updated with latest research activities and trends and get instant solutions of research related issues. The attendance is mandatory and recorded in Research Progress Sheet.

Research students at NIP are provided an opportunity to communicate their research plans in the form of Seminar Presentations. In this manner students learn how to communicate and present their researches, and constructive feed back is instantly provided to the students by faculty members or co-researchers.

Research Advisory Committee is specially constituted to facilitate students at any time in the process of their research; this committee is comprised of members who have sound professional experience of researches who provide valuable guidance and recommendations to the research students in order to ensure smooth progress of the research.

Research coordinators have been appointed along with the admin staff for the assistance & smooth running of the research process.

Selection of Research Topic

Chapter 2: Method

Chapter 3: Results
Results should be reported preferably in the order/sequence of the variables and factors of the study which have been described in Intro/Objectives/ Hypotheses (the same order/sequence should be following everywhere.

Chapter 4: Discussion and Conclusions
Students should not repeat relevant literature; rather should give a critical analysis of the findings of the present study in the light of relevant research quoted in the introduction.

References
The ones quoted in the chapter must tally with the list at the end. Try to quote most relevant and latest references.

Annexure/ Copies of Tests and Measures
Annexure/ Copies of Tests and Measures developed, translated or adapted must be submitted in Testing Resource Centre (TRC) at NIP and should not be made a part of thesis/dissertation in the bound form.

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