Philippine Social Science Council's Research Award Program

摘要

In the early 1970s or soon after its formal establishment in 1968, a major concern of PSSC was the development of research capacity among the country's institutions of higher learning. For this, PSSC began a Research Training and Institutional Development Program managed by the Council's Institutional Development Committee. Its major activity was the conduct of research training programs in the summer and participated in by faculty members and the research personnel of universities and colleges from all over the Philippines. The complete program covered three summers which allowed a participant to undergo training in basic, advanced and specialized courses in social research methods. In a report on PSSC and its programs appearing in the May 1976 issue of the PSSC Social Science Information, then Executive Director Loretta Makasiar-Sicat noted that the Program had trained faculty and personnel from as many as 22 universities and colleges from different regions of the land. PSSC's Research Training Program enabled the formation of the PSSC Research Network among participating trainees and institutions in the mid-1970s. The Network facilitated the conduct of PSSC-led national surveys and the development of regional research centers to meet the growing need of government offices, development aid agencies and other groups for systematic data collection and analysis and other research-related work. In the 1980s, these regional research centers came to comprise the PSSC Research Consortium which undertook studies relevant to regional/local concerns as well as to national development.