An Investigation of Research Culture Factors in Public Sector Universities of Punjab

Abstract

This study tried to explore the factors that influence the development of research culture in universities. Research culture facilitates a suitable working environment for university faculty members to perform different types of research-related tasks. This study used a convenient method of sampling and 7 general public sector universities were considered as a sample. The teaching faculty of these universities were interviewed by purposive sampling. 16 interviews were recorded till saturation and a semi-structured interview protocol was employed for this purpose. Recorded interviews were analyzed by thematic data analysis technique. The themes of these interviews presented that three factors are environmental, institutional, and personal factors that were responsible for research culture. This study suggested that equal importance had to be given to these three factors and ignorance of any one factor would be responsible for creating those circumstances that were not in favor of creating positive research culture.