Workshops / Conferences / Trainings

"Exploring the Impact of Climate Change on Fishing Practices and Fisheries Regulations among the Fishermen in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu” at Climate Change Conference held during July 20 & 21, 2022 at Central University of Tamil Nadu.

"The Economic Burden of Ecological Conservation: Here’s What Throws Cold Water on Sustainable Fishing Practices” at Climate Change Conference held during July 20 & 21, 2022 at Central University of Tamil Nadu.

"Sustainable Fishing for Self-reliant Future: Fisherfolks’ Past experiences, Present conditions, and Imagining Future" at ICSSR-sponsored national seminar on Atmanirbhar Bharat and Media: On the Road to Success on 28th and 29th April 2022 organised by Department of Media and Communication, CUTN.

Poster presentation "Acceptance and Use of Technology among Kathakali Artists during COVID - 19 Pandemic" at the 21st Science Council of Asia Conference On “Science, Technology & Social Science Research: Together for a Better World” during 15-17 March 2022 organised by ICSSR-SCA

"An immersive virtual experience of Kathakali: An experiment in virtual reality" at the 8th Annual South Asian Media and Cultural Studies Conference on February 10 -11, 2022. Organised by College of Communication and Information, Florida State University. 

"Kathakali in the new millennium" at International Conference on Ecosophy , Art and Peace , held on June 3 and 4 , 2021 b y the GCPAS, MAHE, Manipal, India in association with UNESCO Peace Chair , MAHE, Manipal, India.

"‘Jallikattu’ movement and Cultural identity: The mobilising structure of media paradigm and its dimensions" at 1st Journalism international conference: International Journalism and Decision-Making: Who is In Charge? organised by Journalism Department, Faculty of Mass Communication, Ahram Canadian university, Cairo/Egypt on October 28-29, 2020.

"Social Media Autonomy and Regulation: Political Participation and Diverging Perspectives " at the National level Media Symposium organized by The Centre for Media Studies at Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous, Bangalore on 16th January 2020.

"A Study of Social media among college students in Coimbatore". Three day National conference on Social media: Authentication & Social Transformation, 30,31 January and 01 February 2019. Organised by Department of RDS, Computer Science & ACPR, Arul anandar college, Madurai, TN.

"Students Social media attitude and their academic performance: A Cross sectional study among college students in coimbatore". National conference on Media Literacy in the Digital Age, 31 January and 1st February 2019.

"Role of Television in Child Development: A Study on Television usage and its Positive Effects". ICSSR sponsored National level conference on Media and Child Development, 28-29 September 2018. Organised by Government College of Education, Vellore, TN.

"A Measure of Parental Attitude Towards Potential Benefits of Television: Scale Development And Validation". ICSSR sponsored National level conference on Media and Child Development, 28-29 September 2018. Organised by Government College of Education, Vellore, TN.

"Content Analysis and Sentiment Analysis on Blue Whale Challenge Issue reported in news websites". AMIC International Conference, 7-9 June 2018 on Disturbing Asian Millennials: Some Creative Responses. Organised by School of Communication, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, Karnataka

"Virtual Identity of Resilience: A Uses and Gratification approach to Social Media operations by Indian Transgender Millennials". AMIC International Conference, 7-9 June 2018 on Disturbing Asian Millennials: Some Creative Responses. Organised by School of Communication, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, Karnataka

"Parental Mediation of Children Television viewing as a byproduct of Socio-Cultural Development - A Vygotskian Framework". 6th Annual Conference. Comparative Media Studies in Today's world 2018 - Emotions Vs Rationality in Mediated Discussions. St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, 17th - 19th April 2018

Presented a paper at one day international seminar on Portrayal of Social issues in Literature and Media, jointly organised by Centre for Media and Social Science and Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Periyar University, Salem, TN 10th February, 2018.

Boobalakrishnan, C.J. Ravikrishnan, C.Pichandy (2018) சமூக ஊடகத்தின் (ட்விட்டர்) உணர்வுப் பகுப்பாய்வு (Sentiment Analysis): கனடா பிரதமர் ஜஸ்டின் ட்ரூடோவின் இந்திய சுற்றுப் பயணம். Media and Youth: Changes and Challenges. Gandhigram Rural University , Dindugul.

N.Boobalakrishnan & C.Pichandy. (2016) Television and Mediation in families: Dispositions and prospects for media literacy among Indian parent’s by interaction with their children television viewing. International Conference on Media & Visual Literacy, organized by Department of Visual Communication, Faculty of Science and Humanities, SRM University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

N.Boobalakrishnan & Rufus J (2014) Social networking media and Teenagers. National Seminar on Social Networking Media Boon or Bane?, organized by Department of post graduate studies in Journalism & Mass communication, S.D.M. College (autonomous), Ujire– 574 240. D.K, Karnataka.

N.Boobalakrishnan (2012) Study on Listeners Perception And Penetration of PSG Community Radio. National Conference on Community Radio: Prospects and Challenges, organized by Dept. of Communication, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli.

Boobalakrishnan N (2010) Integrating Instructional Multimedia and Cognitive Domain for Effective Interactivity. National Conference on Media, Education and Development, organized by Dept of Communication, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli.

Boobalakrishnan N (2009) IQAC –DEFINING PARAMETERS FOR PROMOTING QUALITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION. Two days state level seminar - sponsored by NAAC at Rathinam College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore.

ICSSR-sponsored Two Week Capacity Building Programme for Young Social Science Faculty Members organised by the Department of Political Science and Public Administration & Department of Library and Information Science durin 7th November 2022 to 18th November 2022

Online FDP on "Photography & Media Communication" from 2020-11-9 to 2020-11-13 at University College of Engineering Villupuram Campus.

One week FDP Programme on Moodle Learning Management System, organized by Center for Virtual Learning, Dr.N.G.P. Arts and Science College, Coimbatore & Spoken Tutorial, IIT Bombay, National Mission on Education thorugh ICT, MHRD, GOI through Online from May 04 - 10, 2020.

TWO DAY FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ON VIRTUAL TEACHING” April 20 & 21, 2020 THROUGH ON-LINE MODE

Completed ANNUAL REFRESHER PROGRAMME IN TEACHING: Data Analysis For Social Science Teachers (October 2019 - January 2020) from HRDC, University of Hyderabad thorugh SWAYAM portal.

Completed successfuly the course "Introduction to Film studies" from IIT, Madras (July - October 2019: 12 weeks couse) through SWAYAM-NPTEL portal with Elite and Silver medal (81%).

Successfully completed Orientation Course for 21 days from 25.07.2019 up to 14.08.2019 from UGC - HRDC Pondicherry University, Pondicherry.

Participated in one day Faculty Development Programme on Choosing Scholarly Journals and Guidelines to Publish Scientific Research Articles conductd by ICT Academy on 21st October 2016.

Participated in the 'Building Capacities of Researchers in South Asia for Publishing in Academic Journals' Workshop 29th and 30th January 2015, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India Workshop hosted at Centre for Life Long Learning, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India and Jointly organized by (ASPBAE) Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education, (BAICE) British Association of International and Comparative Education, (UNGEI) United Nations Girls Education Initiative and COMPARE, A journal of International and Comparative Education, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

Participated FDP programme on Research Methods and Statistical analysis using SPSS from 9th June to 10th June 2014 at Department of Management studies at Sri Venkatewswara Institute of Information Technology and Management, Coimbatore.

Completion of R Training offered by the Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay, funded by National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Govt., of India and successfully completed R test organized at Sri Krishna Arts and Science College, Coimbatore. - April 25th 2020

Three months training at Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMMRC), University of Mysore, Mysore, Karnataka.

Produced a Documentary entitled “TIGERS – Cat on the Edge” at EMMRC, Mysore telecasted in UGC-CEC, New Delhi National network.

One month Training at Raj Television network, Chennai.

International Webinar on "Digital Possibilities to Improve the Quality of Language Learning" 16.6.2020

Webinar on " "Script to screen: Insights" " by Dr Vasuki Belavadi on 05-06-2020

International Webinar on "Contemporary Digital Cinema and Society" by Dr Swarnavel Eswaran on 13-05-2020. 

National Webinar on “Critical Approaches in Communication Research” on 4th May 2020 through ON-LINE MODE

Participated in the Two day workshop on "Fact-Checking and Online Verification" organised by Google News Initiative India Training Network and CUTN on 06th and 07th February 2020

IGNOU-UNICEF National Workshop on Media and Child Rights: Developing Curriculum Materials, 8-9 November , 2019 in New Delhi.

Attended a week long workshop on Script Writing II by renowned script writer Mr. Bala Senthilkumar in the month of January, 2018.

Participated in a two-day workshop on ‘Writing for Research Journals’ with Resource Person Prof. Dr. T.T. Sreekumar, EFLU, Hyderabad from Nov 27, 2017 at Central University of Tamil Nadu.

Attended a week long workshop on Script Writing I by renowned script writer Mr. Bala Senthilkumar in the month of December, 2017.

Participted TEQIP –II Sponspred Research workshop on Data analytics using R held at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, during 10-11 Spetember, 2016.

Participated National level workshop on Achieving Excellence in Research Endeavour from December 5 - 6 2014 at PSG Institute of Management Coimbatore.

Participated workshop on Research Methodology from September 18 – 20 2014 at PSG Institute of Management Coimbatore.

Participated two day workshop on e-content production (cloud computing based) entitled “Anywhere, Anytime and never lost production of short learning object SLO)” on 2nd & 3rd May 2013, conducted by Edusat committee at PSG College of Arts & Science.