Research Training
In our informal “Blue Room” we held informal weekly Research Training Sessions throughout the 2018 – 19 school year. Faculty members, students, and research assistants took part in 25 two-hour workshops where they first gained knowledge then practiced some of the key tasks of research. The training sessions started with the philosophy of research then went through, design, posing questions, quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis methods, and finally drawing conclusions and publishing their results.
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Summer School
Together IFPRI and WIUT organize the Regional Training Course on Applied Econometric Analysis for economists and researchers (35 or younger). The aim is to strengthen the capacity of young economists in Central Asia for quantitative research, economic policy analysis, and, econometric analysis of economic and social policy issues. UNESCO The UNESCO—MOST School program “Supporting young water researchers . . .” invited us to conduct interactive workshops on academic writing for research (publishing research in international journals) at the Tashkent Institute for Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization. This was a strong step forward for many faculty who had yet to publish in international journals. Dr. Pete Malvicini, our CPRO Director, led this effort.
UNESCO
The UNESCO—MOST MOST School program “Supporting young water researchers . . .” invited us to conduct interactive workshops on academic writing for research (publishing research in international journals) at the Tashkent Institute for Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization. This was a strong step forward for many faculty who had yet to publish in international journals. Dr. Pete Malvicini, our CPRO Director, led this effort.
Conferences & Events International
Internationalization and Innovation in Higher Education
Pilot Agribusiness and Horticulture Training for Women of the Ferghana Valley
International Conference on Applied Linguistics and Language Education (ICALLE 2019)
Capacity Development
Research Assistantship Program
Distinguished Speakers
In response Uzbekistan’s economic and social reforms, WIUT hosted various high-level speakers from international organizations during the 2018—19 academic year. Among them were Cyril Muller, World Bank Vice President for Europe and Central Asia; Albert Jaeger, International Monetary Fund Mission; Wencai Zhang, Vice President of the Asian Development Bank; Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Research Policy Institute; Vladimir Norov, Secretary General, Shanghai Cooperation Organization; Helena Fraser, UN Resident Coordinator for Uzbekistan and others.
Research Seminars
Research Seminars are a place where faculty, research assistants, and students share completed research and work in progress. They receive valuable comments to help strengthen their research by preparing them for conference presentations and publication. On occasion, visiting researchers from outside the university share their work. Participants learn much from understanding how research questions are developed, a study is designed, and what the processes of collecting, analyzing, and presenting findings and conclusions look like in practice.