2025 Summer Research Week (18-22 August 2025) at Pakistan Scientific and Technological Information Center, PASTIC.

2025 summer research week is being held at Pakistan Scientific and Technological Information Center, PASTIC, QAU Campus Islamabad. More than 25 researchers, and students from QAU, NUST, IIU are attending this research week. The activity is aimed at equipping researchers with latest tools and techniques relevant to qualitative and quantitative research. Four resource persons including Dr. Maryam Ibrar, Dr. Arfeen, Ms. Rabia Zafar and Dr. M. Usman are engaged to deliver these topics.

First Day (18 August) of 2025 Summer Research Week

The first day of the 2025 summer research week started with the recitation from the Holy Quran. Afterwards, the first session was dedicated to the 'introduction of research'. Majorly the research, its types, and methods were discussed. A discussion was also held for techniques for reading the research papers. Later on, hands-on-activity was held for using MENDELEY for conducting the literature review.

Day 1 in pictures

Second Day (19 August) of 2025 Summer Research Week

The second started with brief introduction of Data Collection Methods including Questionairre Development, Conducting Intervies, and Observations. Afterwards, participants were given a brief review of data types used in SPSS followed by setting up data files in SPSS. A hands on session was conducted on Missing Values Analysis (using Series Mean, and Mean of Near By Points). Additionally, methods for transforming variables, i.e. computation and recoding were discussed and practiced. Dr. Muhammad Usman was assisted by Ms. Rabia Zafar from NUST, today for some key topics..

Day 2 in pictures

Third Day (20 August) of 2025 Summer Research Week

The third day started with brief recap of previous day activities. Participants were trained on recoding variables technique in SPSS. Further, a session on descriptive statistics was held. Next session included topics from inferential statistics: 1-Sample t-Test, Paired-samples t-Test, Independent Samples t-Test, and 1-way ANOVA. Against each of the exercise, participants were given 3 example datasets for extended learning.

Day 3 in pictures

Fourth Day (21 August) of 2025 Summer Research Week

On the fourth day of summer week, participants were trained on NVivo software for thematic coding. The second half of the day was dedicated to complete pending SPSS topics including Linear Regression, and Chi-Square Tests. Further more, in the second session, AI/Data Science topic was introduced. Partcipants were given basic understanding of machine learning/data mining techniques, and few exercises were completed using Weka.

Day 4 in pictures

Final Day (22 August) of 2025 Summer Research Week

The 5th day started with continuation of introduction of AI/Data Science for all sciences. Moving further, participants were trained on various datasets using WEKA software. The processing techniques through various filters were discussed and practiced. Classification, Clustering and Association Rules were discussed and practiced through different datasets in WEKA. The day was concluded with a closing ceremony where certificates were distributed among the participants.