The Youth Fellows are well and truly on the research road. On October 21st, 2012, the Research Question Workshop was conducted. Probing research question is always a challenging activity. Groups arrive with large themes that they wish to study. Often times these themes are too wide, sometimes fanciful and many times non-pragmatic. The best way to handle this challenge is to patiently steer long meetings and discussions and sometimes engage in a pilot study to demonstrate the concerns.The workshop was intended to help the groups identify and reach an agreement regarding the broad themes they wish to study. In addition, it was intended to help the groups narrow their research focus.

The Research Question workshop was facilitated by Dr. Anita PatilDeshmukh, Executive Director of PUKAR. First, she explained the why, what, where, when and how of research. The groups were assisted in narrowing their topics. Each group was helped in reaching clarity about their research question and how best to frame it. A total of 30 youth fellows, 13 male and 17 female attended this workshop.