Wrestling with ‘Truth’

Speaker: Supriya Subramani

Venue : HSB 209

Date : 16th November, 2018

Time : 5.15 p.m.

Abstract

Have you wondered how “validity” and “reliability” are understood in social science research, and particularly, in qualitative research studies? How do these studies arrive at conclusions while engaging with subjective perceptions? In this talk, I will present how qualitative studies understand ‘reality’ and how the knowledge is constructed. Further, through my qualitative research work, I present the complexity of ‘truth’ and the method of knowledge synthesis. I aim to engage on the complexity involved in the conceptual grasp of the concepts being studied, and its ramifications in qualitative inquiry.

About the speaker

Supriya Subramani is a research scholar at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT Madras). She works on moral values underlying the concept of ‘informed consent’ in the medical judiciary and clinical practice within the Indian context. Her research interest lies at the intersection of qualitative inquiry, ethics, behavior, and law.