One Year As a Researcher!
Last year in 2022, on this day today, I started my journey as a PhD research scholar.
I vividly remember how I turned towards Gamification as It was getting difficult for me to engage my students (during my life skills classes) while teaching them online.
And since then, I kept evolving my self-invented Gamification framework further and named it Star Count System, which later got recognized by Blackboard as well.
Success of my experiments with Gamification further inspired me to choose this as my area of research because of my sheer interest and curiosity.
During my one year journey as a PhD research scholar, I had the opportunity to explore areas like gamification, lifeskills, higher education, student motivation, student engagement, trainingand development, pedagogy, learning design and so on.
What made my journey worthwhile, is the following set of milestones that were achieved within one year,
✓ Book Chapter in ISBN edited Book (to be published shortly).
✓ Paper presentation in an international conference at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (to be held next month).
✓ One research paper under review (to be published in Springer publication).
✓ Poster presentation at the international conference by GUS Canada.
✓ One International grant award by the Fulbright Association, Washington D.C.
✓ Selection in the US Alumni Micro Grants Competition 2022 by U.S. Embassy India.
✓ International Award in teaching and learning category by Anthology Inc, USA.
✓ Conducted a series of workshops for 6 American universities and 1 Singapore based startup.
✓Conducted faculty development program on Teaching and Learning for law academicians at the UPES.
And above all, what has made my journey truly remarkable is my association with two super-brilliant wizards who also proved to be a constant source of motivation and encouragement: My supervisors, Aswani Dravid, Ph.D and Zac Fitz-Walter, without their guidance and support, I wouldn't have been able to come this far.
"Thank you isn't really enough to express how grateful I am..."
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