Registration Fee: 900 (USD 20)
15 & 16 October, 2026
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Present your work, receive expert feedback, and improve your research.
The Reviewers’ Room is a live research clinic for scholars who want to understand how experts read, critique, and improve research. The room covers research in marketing, economics, finance, and human resource management, with methodological expertise in qualitative research, quantitative research, experiments, econometrics, and systematic literature reviews.
Up to 25 selected proposals from participants will be invited to present their work in a concise five-slide pitch and receive structured feedback from the review panel. The wider audience will learn how to frame a research problem, present a research idea clearly, justify a methodological choice, and ask for the right kind of feedback.
Expert | Affiliation |
Dr. Tathagata Ghosh | Professor of Marketing, Great Lakes, Gurgaon |
Dr. Leena Kaushal | Associate Professor, Economics & Public Policy, MDI, Gurgaon |
Dr. Shalini Sahni | Director and Founder, Koach Scholar, Mumbai |
Associate Professor | IIM |
Participants whose proposals are selected will present their work in a concise five-slide pitch. Experts will provide structured feedback on the research problem, gap or tension, research design, intended contribution, methodological fit, and the specific issue identified by the scholar.
The wider audience will learn from each pitch and feedback conversation. They will also learn how to make a research presentation, respond to expert questions, and convert feedback into a practical revision plan.
No separate title slide is required. The research title should appear on Slide 1.
Slide | What to present |
1. Research Problem | Research title, context, and problem. What are you studying? What important phenomenon, practical issue, or scholarly problem motivates the research? |
2. Gap / Tension | Gap, tension, contradiction, or unresolved issue. What is not adequately explained, understood, or resolved in existing research? Why does it matter? |
3. Research Design | Proposed or completed research design. Mention the method, data or participants, context, key variables or concepts, and proposed analysis where relevant. |
4. Intended Contribution | Expected contribution. What will the study add to theory, evidence, method, policy, or management practice? |
5. Specific Feedback Request | State what you want the experts to comment on. You may request feedback on the problem, gap, theory, design, data, analysis, contribution, or presentation. |
· Submit one presentation of exactly five slides.
· Keep the presentation concise and suitable for a short research pitch.
· Use readable fonts, limited text, and clear visuals where necessary.
· Do not reproduce a full literature review or complete manuscript.
· Do not include confidential organisational information, personally identifying participant information, or proprietary data.
· Submit the presentation in PPTX or PDF format.
· The final slide should clearly state: “The feedback I most need is…”
Complete the Google Form, copy this link and paste it in another page
https://forms.gle/rwQhJvD88Mnbma8z8
Email your five-slide PPTX or PDF presentation to contact@koachscholar.com. Please ensure that the presentation follows the five-slide structure.
The moderator and organising team will review submissions and aim for balanced representation across research domains, methods, and research stages. The selection is designed to create a rich learning experience for both presenters and the wider audience.
Selected participants will be informed approximately one week before the workshop or research-clinic session.
If changes are required in the deck, the selected participant will be informed and asked to revise and resubmit the presentation within the communicated timeline.
Participants interested in presenting their work should email their presentation by 5 October 2026.