𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫

NCPAG graduate students honed their academic research writing and dissemination skills in a seminar co-organized by the NCPAG Publications Office and the NCPAG Student Council – Office of the Graduate Students Representative.

The Seminar on Academic Writing and Research Dissemination was held at the NCPAG Case Room on 30 May 2025.

The activity, intended primarily for graduate students and graduate thesis and dissertation writers in the College, aims to help the writers prepare better-quality research outputs for sharing in their professional and academic communities, particularly through academic journals, like the Philippine Journal of Public Administration (PJPA), and conference paper presentations.

Dean Kristoffer Berse opened the program and expressed his hope that the seminar would inspire the students to “write and share research with clarity and conscience—and to pursue research with a sense of purpose.”

Topics covered in the seminar include academic writing, dissemination of research outputs, and research ethics. The editors and staff of the PJPA, led by Publications Office Director Dr. Michael Tumanut, served as resource persons.

Forty participants attended the seminar, with Master of Public Administration students having the biggest representation at 21, followed by Doctor of Public Administration students (14), non-NCPAG students (4), which include two Silliman University students doing an internship at the Commission on Human Rights, and one from the Diploma in Public Management program.

In his closing remarks, Center for Public Administration and Governance Education Director Dr. Erwin Alampay reminded the participants that the skills they develop in writing academic research will be useful in many other aspects of their professional and future endeavors as public administration practitioners.