This is a collaoborative endevor of PAROC with Marymatha Major Seminary, applying its fourth year students into social research zeal. The students are invited to engage in a pastoral social research where they are asked to do their pastoral ministry as a part of pastoral formation program. They shall fix a topic on pastoral importance in the parish and can approach the same with the tool of social research. PAROC research institute has supervised a variety of micro research program pertainging pastoral concern. Some of them are listed here.

1. Youth and faith practices
2. Impact of youth migration in parishes
3. Participation of youth in pious association
4. Influence of social media and youth
5. Influence of social media in family relationship
6. Being unmarried: issues of unmarried in the parish
7. Influence of Malayalam films on catholic faith
8. Influence of Catechism on catholic children