An advance workshop conducted by Lokniti on Research Methods was held at CSDS from 3rd to 6th January 2016. Nine participants from the previous (9^th) Summer School on Research Methods held in July 2015 were selected to attend the Returnees Advance Training Workshop. The core faculty comprised of Pradeep Chhibber (University of California, Berkeley), Siddharth Swaminathan (Centre for Law and Governance, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru), Irfan Nooruddin (Georgetown University), Reetika Sayal, (Jain University, Bangalore), and Jyoti Mishra (Lokniti, Delhi). Research questions of each participant were discussed in detail and further training was imparted to improve their individual papers.