Fulbright Student Fellowships

 2018-2019

 (Deadline: June 1, 2017)    .

The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy is pleased to announce the opportunity to compete for 2018-2019 Fulbright Student Fellowships for graduate study in the United States leading to a Master’s or Doctoral degree. Fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis to qualified candidates under the auspices of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Program, subject to the availability of funding.



Deadline: June 1, 2017



The Fulbright Program was established in 1946 by the U.S. Congress as a means “to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.” For more than sixty years the Fulbright Program has provided opportunities for foreign nationals to study, teach, and pursue research in the U.S.

To be eligible, applicants must:

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• Have a strong academic background and a record of excellence in previous studies;
• Have completed a Bachelor’s degree from a recognized college or university for those applying to study in the U.S. for a Master’s degree program, or have a Master’s degree from a recognized college or university for those applying to study in the U.S. for a Doctoral program;
• Be proficient in English (a minimum score of 570 on TOEFL or TOEFL ITP, or 230 on computer-based TOEFL, or 88 on internet based TOEFL, or 7.0 on IELTS);
• Demonstrate the ability to adapt readily to a foreign environment;
• Be in good health and able to undergo a rigorous study program; and
• Not have extensive experience living or studying in the United States.

Fulbright Student Fellowship grants provide round-trip transportation to the United States, as well as tuition fees, and living expenses for full-time graduate study. Grant provisions do not include financial support for dependents.

Application Instructions

Applicants who do not already have a minimum TOEFL score of 570 or equivalent should plan to take a proficiency test prior to the application deadline. Proof of English proficiency must accompany the complete application form. Applicants will be deemed ineligible without providing evidence of English proficiency.
All costs associated with English language tests are borne by the applicants themselves.
Students receiving a 570 or above on the TOEFL ITP or equivalent are invited to apply for the Fulbright program online. The application is available here. The Fulbright Selection Committee will only accept online applications, which are due by June 1, 2017.  Please read instructions below for completing the Fulbright Student Program application.
Applicants must submit all required supporting documents and test score reports directly to the online application. For further information, please contact:
Mr. Ou Socheat
Public Affairs Specialist
Tel: 023-728-248
Email: PASExchanges@state.gov

Instructions for Completing the Fulbright Student Program Application

Read all instructions carefully before completing the application.

Step 1: Be sure you understand the program requirements for submitting an application

Step 2: Record user ID and password in a safe place

Step 3: Complete the application

Step 4: Print supplemental forms

Step 5: Application inspector

Step 6: Review and print your application

Step 7: Submit your application

Step 8: Track your application for missing documents

Step 9: Supporting documentation needed to complete your application

Other Important Information

For More Details Please Visit us -https://kh.usembassy.gov/fulbright-student-fellowships-2018-2019/

Call for Applicants:Funded Global Frontiers - An interdisciplinary Winter School

Tübingen, Germany, 15-17 November 2017

Call for Applicants

• An interdisciplinary Winter School for doctoral students and early-career postdoctorates, hosted by the Institute for Modern History, University of Tübingen in Germany, 15–17 November 2017
• featuring a keynote lecture by Dr. Matthew W. Mosca (University of Washington, Seattle), author of the highly acclaimed From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China (2013).
• application deadline: 30 June 2017
• funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Institutional Strategy of the University of Tübingen (ZUK 63)

Concept

At the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago on July 12, 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner announced the closing of the United States frontier and "with its going … the first period of American history." It was the unclaimed West, he argued, that distinguished the nation's citizens from their European ancestors, "strip[ping] off the garments of civilization and array[ing] him in the hunting shirt and the moccasin." Now, for the first time in four hundred years, its residents would need to find something beyond "the stubborn American environment" to stimulate their minds and promote their united character.

Despite—or perhaps because of—Turner's remarks, the idea of the frontier has lingered in both popular and scholarly imaginations. Frontier imagery shapes the stories we tell of medieval and early modern European encounters with the Near East, indigenous resistance movements during the 1800s and 1900s, twentieth-century German imperialism, the global Space Race of the 1960s, and, most recently, the PEGIDA movement and the refugee crises of 2015 and 2016. More critically, the concept has pushed us to come to terms with different types of boundaries (geographic, social, racial, ethnic, cultural, etc.) as well as their effectiveness in dividing and uniting populations.

This three-day intensive Winter School is aimed at Ph.D. students and early postdoctorates working on the themes of borders, boundaries, and frontiers with a focus on the fifteenth through twenty-first centuries. It particularly aims to reunite the research of scholars working on these concepts across disciplines, including but not limited to the Arts, Anthropology, Ethnography, Geography, History, Literature, and various Area Studies, and to promote participants' sharing of their practical use of these frameworks in ways not limited by historical periods or spaces.

We seek proposals for presentations of 20 to 25 minutes in length, which explore demarcations, experiences, and imaginings of the frontier around the globe. Papers may be theoretical in nature or may assess the meanings of these ideas within specific communities. Motivating questions might include:

• Can we define the frontier? Does this definition carry around the globe and across time?
• Who can claim the frontier?
• What is the role of nature along the frontier?
• Are frontiers best understood as zones of demarcation and separation (borders) or of social and cultural interaction (borderlands)?
• Are frontiers less—or even unmonitored spaces? Or are they, rather, spaces subject to particular efforts of regulation, disciplining, control, and surveillance—and, if so, by whom?
• What has been the relationship between the frontier and concepts of civility?
• How are frontiers imagined in times or regions distant from their actual occurrence?

Funding

The organizers will cover travel costs to/from Tübingen (up to an agreed limit), accommodation and lunches for 10 successful applicants, who will present on their current research projects. An additional 10 individuals will be eligible to receive part-funding as participants.

The working language of the school is English.

Application and Selection Procedure

The Winter School will offer financial assistance to a maximum of 20 participants. Those interested in joining the program should submit the following documents by email to globalfrontiers2017@histsem.uni-tuebingen.de:

• a brief CV (max. 2 pages)
• a title/abstract of the proposed presentation (max. 500 words)
• a cover letter placing the applicant's proposal within their larger research project and identifying their motivations for participating in the program (max. 2 pages)

All documents should be submitted in English, preferably as a single PDF file.

The deadline for applications is Friday, 30 June 2017. Notifications will be made in late July.

Questions can be directed to the conference email provided above or to any of the organizers.

Contact Info: 

Daniel Menning, University of Tübingen, daniel.menning@uni-tuebingen.de

Kristin Condotta Lee, Washington University in St. Louis, condotta@wustl.edu

Tobias P. Graf, University of Tübingen/Heidelberg University, tobias-peter.graf@uni.tuebingen.de

Contact Email: 

globalfrontiers2017@histsem.uni-tuebingen.de

URL: 

https://www.uni-tuebingen.de/index.php?id=96422&L=1

International Interdisciplinary Conference on

“Intersemiotic Translation, Adaptation, Transposition

University of Cyprus, on November 10-12, 2017.

The first international interdisciplinary conference on “Intersemiotic Translation, Adaptation, Transposition: Saying Almost the Same Thing?” will be held at the University of Cyprus, on November 10-12, 2017. 

The conference aims at bringing together scholars from three different disciplines, Translation Studies, Semiotics, and Adaptation Studies, all of which look into intersemiotic crossovers. Join us in

Cyprus to investigate common ground and divergence, as well as potential theoretical osmosis across disciplinary boundaries. We welcome abstracts on textual transfer across semiotic systems, including ballet, opera, film and theater, comics, graphic novels and manga, photography and painting, video-games, website localization, hypertexts and multimodal texts, to name but a few.

Conference theme

The three disciplines of Adaptation Studies, Semiotics, and Translation Studies share a common interest in the transference of texts across modes of signification such as textual, visual, oral, aural, gestural or kinesic. More particularly, Semiotics looks into the interpretation of signs in various semiotic systems, Intersemiotic Translation (Jakobson 1959)  renders linguistic texts into nonverbal signs, and the study of adaptations can include any generic transposition of a text into other modes of representation. There is an obvious overlap here.

Nevertheless, although in principle at least these three disciplines share common ground, their research seems to focus on different subfields. Most of the work by semioticians focuses on non-linguistic semiotic systems, Translation Studies has traditionally focused on the interlingual transfer of texts, and Adaptation Studies usually deals with cinematic or theatrical versions of literary texts.

Regarding the theoretical approaches they apply there has been very little crossover. After some early promising voices such as Holmes (1972), Reiß (1971), and Toury (1994/1986), the disciplines have followed parallel paths, which have converged little.

In the recent past, though, translation as a practice has undergone dramatic change, especially with the advent of the Internet and technological advances: instead of the traditional rendering of written texts across languages, translation now encompasses much more dynamic forms of multimodal texts and media, making the expansion of the theory indispensable in order to account for them (Brems et al. 2014). A burgeoning new field of applied research is flourishing, a field which includes AV translation, localization, subtitling, opera surtitling, dubbing, sign language interpreting, audio description, live subtitling, fansubbing, video-games, subfields that by default entail a much more expanded understanding of text. Translation Studies has grown impressively to address them theoretically. Nevertheless, reaching out to semiotic approaches to translation (Stecconi 2007, Marais and Kull 2016) or to Adaptation Studies (Zatlin 2006, Milton 2009, 2010, Raw 2012, Cattrysse 2014, Krebs 2014) has been comparatively limited. Considerably more has been done by semioticians looking into translation (Gorlée 1994 and 2004, Fabbri 1998, Eco and Nergaard 2001, Eco 2003, Petrilli 2003 and 2007, Torop 2000 and 2002, Sütiste and Torop 2007, Dusi 2010 and 2015, Kourdis 2015).

This conference will be a forum for bringing together scholars investigating intersemiotic translation under whatever name and guise from various theoretical backgrounds and disciplines in order to promote mutual understanding and theoretical cross-fertilization.

Research topics can include the transfer of texts between any semiotic systems, including music, ballet and dance, opera, film and theater, comics, graphic novels, and manga, photography and painting, video-games, website localization, hypertexts and multimodal texts, to name but a few.

Theoretical questions discussed might include, although will not necessarily be limited to:

Intersemiotic translation and its social dimension

Intersemiosis and culture

Transmutation and ethics

(Non-) equivalence, information loss and gain

Translation as adaptation

Nomenclature and definitions: transmutation, transcreation, transposition, transduction.

Papers that address key theoretical issues from an interdisciplinary approach will be particularly welcome.

Panel proposals will also be considered; however, the individual submissions will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee.

Submissions should include: an abstract of the proposed paper of up to 300-words, along with the author’s name, communication information, and short bio-bibliographical note. Abstracts should be sent to info@intersemiosis-cy.com with the indication “Intersemiosis Conference Proposal” typed on the subject line.

One of the aims of this conference is to produce a publication that reflects on the potential for future collaborations among the three disciplines.

Conference language: English

Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 20, 2017

Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2017

Deadline for registration: September 15, 2017

Contact Us

Email:info@intersemiosis-cy.com
vasso@ucy.ac.cy
http://www.intersemiosis-cy.com/index.php/en/about-iaba

International Conference on Social Science & Humanities, 1st December, Chennai India.

CALL FOR PAPERS

After two successful conferences held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we are moving to the Cultural capital of South India, namely, Chennai for the Third International Conference to be held 2017. We welcome prospective participants with a "namaskar" and request them to send abstract and the full papers well ahead of the deadline. Both Oral and Poster presentations covering current research and new processes under the theme of "Sustainable leadership for Human development" (but not limited to it) are welcome from participants. 

The proposed Conference provides a suitable platform to all academics, leading researchers, professionals to share their knowledge and their achievement. All academic practitioners around the world are encouraged to submit their research abstracts, papers and posters based on following conference tracks. All accepted abstracts will be published in conference proceedings. In advance full text papers are welcome for journal publication and based on the review results, all full text papers will be published in online and reputed journals. 

For abstract submission fill in the abstract submission form or contact helpdesk@gariteam.com.Presentation time allocated 15 mins (10 min presentation 5 min questions)

CONFERENCE THEMES-

The main areas to be covered are (i) Social Sciences and Humanities, (ii) Business Management and Economics, and (iii) Science and Technology. 

Gender roles in Asian countries

Recent developments in Asian Language and Literature

Asian culture vis - a - vis Westernization

Post-Colonial trends in Asian countries

The dynamism of foreign policy making in Asian countries

Tribal traditions and tribal development in Asian countries

Liberalism and Nationalism in Asian countries

Change and continuity in 21st century

Humanism in Asian countries

Concepts of Universal Religion in Asian countries

Common trends in Culture in Asian countries

Common trends in Arts and Fine Arts in Asian countries

Religion and Philosophy of Asian countriesScope of Business Management and Economics

Human Resources

Management

Marketing

Tourism

CSR

Economics

Banking and Finance

Business Ethics

E-commerceScope of Science and Technology

Engineering

Information Technology

Nanotechnology

Computer software and applications

Big Data

Manufacturing

Important Dates:

Abstract submission deadline  -September 20th 2017

Notification of acceptance---October 20th 2017

Full paper submission deadline  --December 30th 2017

(Acceptance Notification send within 10 days of receiving the Abstract)

For More Details Visit us -
http://socialscienceandhumanitiesconference.globalacademicresearchinstitute.com/main/ticssh

3rd Asia Pacific Conference on Contemporary Research (APCCR Funded Scholarships) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

26-27 August 2017

The 3rd Asia Pacific Conference on Contemporary Research (APCCR -2017) will be held on 26th and 27th of August 2017 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The main theme of this conference is ‘Sharing Solutions’. The conference will cover every topic from the areas of Business, Education, Social Sciences and ICT. Internationally-recognized scholars will participate in the event to present their latest research and best practices.

We, the conference organisers invite you to participate in this event where you can:

Strengthen your professional ties: this may lead to publications and job opportunities – an invaluable opportunity for post-PhD professionals.

Receive feedback and constructive critique on your ideas: benefit from the audience engaging with your content rather than focusing on your punctuation and references.

Refine your communication skills: move from your “isolating” research experience to a more collaborative and exchange of perspectives.

Participate in our conference and publish your research directly through the conference proceedings and journals. Don’t miss this great opportunity to get your work out there!

All submitted papers will be peer reviewed and published in the conference proceeding to promote the prominent (and emerging) voices within your field of research.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 3rd Asia Pacific Conference on Contemporary Research (APCCR -2017) will be the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental and applied Business, Social Sciences, Information and Communication Technology, and Education. The conference will bring together leading researchers, academics, consultants, scholars, practitioners and research students from their respective domains of interest around the world. Our distinguished participants will have the opportunity to present their valuable research contributions and to establish an international network among those who volunteer to communicate and study together in the fields of knowledge mentioned above. The conference committee strongly encourages postgraduate research students to present their research proposals, literature reviews or findings at this event with a very special registration fees. Other interested parties and delegations from these fields are also free to attend this event.

All submissions will be peer reviewed and evaluated, based on originality, technical and/or research content/depth, accuracy, relevance to the conference and readability. Submissions will be chosen based on technical merit, interest, applicability, and how well they fit into a coherent and balanced technical program.

Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

Business: Accounting, Strategic Finance, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Strategic Management, Strategic Marketing, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Development, Performance Management, Recruitment and Selection, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, International Business, Globalisation, Corporate Social Responsibility, E-business/E-commerce, Integrated Marketing Communication and Relationship Marketing.

Social Sciences: Anthropology, Archaeology, Area Studies, Cultural and Ethnic Studies, Communication Studies, Gender and Sexuality studies, Geography, History, Law, Linguistics, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, International Relations, Development Studies, Population Studies, Journalism and Mass Communication, Corporate Governance, Cross-Cultural Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Public Administration, Philosophy, Women’s Studies, Religious Studies and Social Welfare Studies.

Education: Theory of Education, Assertive and Assistive Educational Technology, Comparative Education, Counselling, Cultural Literacy, Curriculum Studies, Distance Education, Early Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Planning and Practice, Educational Psychology, Education and Public Policy, Educational Research and Statistics, E-learning, Health Education, Tertiary Education, Innovative Education, Information & Library Science, International Exchange Programs, Language Education, Liberal Education, Mathematics Education, Medical Education, Physical Education, Science Education, Secondary Education, Special Education and Technology Education.

Information and Communication Technology: Advanced IT Bio/Medical Engineering, Bioinformatics and applications, Business and Information Systems, Cloud computing, Convergence in Information Technology Security, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Digital convergence, Electronic Commerce, Business and Management, Grid and Cloud Computing, Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents, Hardware and Software Design, Health and Medical Informatics, Hybrid information technology, Intelligent communications and networks, IT-based Convergence Technology and Service, Multimedia convergence, Smart Card and RFID Technologies, Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems, Social and Business Aspects of Convergence IT, Ubiquitous Computing and Embedded Systems, Recent Trends in Computing & Information technology.

All papers accepted in the APCCR– 2017 will be published in the following online journals without any additional fees:

Asia Pacific Journal of Advanced Business and Social Studies (APJABSS) (ISSN: 2205-6033)

Asia Pacific Journal of Contemporary Education and Communication Technology (APJCECT) (ISSN: 2205-6191)

No manuscript will be accepted without the required format. All manuscripts should be professionally proofread before submission.

Scholarships for Excellent Academic Papers: 

APIAR is delighted to announce a competition for excellent academic papers.

Entries will be judged on the quality of the paper, including the presentation. Only full paper presenters in the conference are qualified to apply. The winner will receive the cost of the air fare and accommodation for the next conference. At the same time, the conference registration fee will be waived.

APIAR is also delighted to announce that registration fee will be waived for the four best paper winners to participate in the next conference.

The prize is non-negotiable and no monetary alternative will be available.

Important Dates

Events/Dates

Abstract   :    30th June 2017

Early bird registration deadline    :  7th July 2017

Regular registration deadline  :       14th July 2017

Full Paper submission deadline (Optional)  :    25th August 2017

Conference dates  :    26th-27th August 2017

The organising committee of APCCR- 2017 kindly requests all the authors of the accepted abstracts / papers to register latest by the regular registration deadline, otherwise the accepted papers may not be included in the conference proceedings for APCCR –  2017.

For More Details.. 

Please Write to us -Email: info@apiar.org.au

Visit Us : Web: http://apiar.org.au

ICSSR Invites applications on

Research Programme on “Research Studies on Specific Issues in Special Regions”

The proposal of the study (app. 1500 words) should belong to a discipline of social sciences, and it may relate to political/social history; constitutional aspects of integration with India; bilateral treaties and agreements; issues of refugees, migrants and displaced persons; economic, political and social status of various sub-regions of these regions; state of Panchayati Raj institutions; status of women, children, elderly people and weaker sections; demographic changes; status of traditional and modern education; assessment of absolute and relative economic performance since independence and so on in respect of such special regions like J&K, North-East etc.

Details about eligibility/terms and conditions etc can be accessed and downloaded as under:

Application format (Click to view and download)

Guidelines (Click to view and download)

Last date of receipt of the application is 17th May 2017(Wednesday)

Applicants will require to submit the following:

1. Proposal of the proposed study in 1500 words.

2. Composition of the research team, including Co-Project Director,      Department and Institutions.

3. CVs of each Researchers.

4. Forwarding letter from the University/Institute of Affiliation.

5. Application form in prescribed format, and

6. Budget proposed.

7. SoftCopy of the proposal and CVs of Research Team should be sent through email at rpicssr@gmail.com

Contact: 

Member-Secretary

Assistant Director

RP (RPR & RPS) Division incharge

ICSSR

Aruna Asaf Ali Marg

New Delhi-110067

011-26742351/26716690 

For More Details Visit: http://icssr.org/

    Funded Coursework for  M.Phil/PhD Research Scholars by CSDS - Call for Applications: Researching the Contemporary 2017

CSDS-New Delhi 

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The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies invites applications for its two-month course on ‘Researching the Contemporary’. This cross-disciplinary course will critically examine the formation of the contemporary and its multiple histories, ideologies, forms and affects.  The following four courses offered this year will enable participants engage with concepts, theories and methods to critically understand and analyse the contemporary:

Theory and the Global South

Course Instructor: Aditya Nigam

Building on its earlier iterations, the course addresses some of the recent global concerns emerging in Asia, Africa and Latin America, which are variously expressed as projects of ‘decoloniality’, ‘epistemologies of the south’, ‘decolonization of theory’ and so on. These different impulses define a complex relationship with what can, for shorthand, be called ‘Western theory’.

This course starts with the recognition that Western theory itself emerges by drawing from diverse bodies of knowledge – both philosophical and scientific – from different parts of the world and there is little to be gained from its outright rejection. At the same time, it questions its universalist claims, which render specific European experiences of ‘modernity’ and its ‘constituent’ processes like ‘secularization’, ‘individuation’, ‘industrialization’, ‘capitalism’ into norms to be aspired to by societies across the world. Taking historico-philosophical work produced by scholars – past and present – from India, China, the Arab and Persian world and Latin America as its point of departure, this course seeks to put the very idea of ‘modernity’ itself under the scanner. Key concepts of modernity, as well as the knowledge produced under its banner – in virtual oblivion of the experiences of the non-European world – will be opened up for examination during the course. The course however, seeks to go beyond simply providing critiques of Western knowledge and theory for it will also centrally be concerned with the question of what it means to do theory in and from the global south.

Reading Media: Historical and Contemporary

Course Instructors: Ravikant, Ravi Sundaram and Ravi Vasudevan

Building on its earlier avatars, the course will explore the historically constitutive role of media in shaping modern and contemporary human experience. The omnibus category of media will be broken into diverse devices, forms, materialities and their specific ways of producing social and cultural meaning in South Asia. Media will additionally be presented as an archive of itself as well as the world it seeks to represent and speak to. Its historical plurality and contemporary convergence places on us a demand that we also focus on intermediality or the relationship of one media with another.

The course will offer preliminary answers to basic questions about what it has meant to live in modern times; how cognition, sense perception, bodily and emotional engagement have been configured at key junctures through mediatised experience, including print culture (newspapers, novels, popular pamphlets, pulp and visual culture), sound technologies (gramophone, radio, cassette and digital formats), photography, film, and the broader ensemble called new media. Exploring media as a key site of historical experience, the course will explore what it has meant to read, listen, view, touch and feel, how this has constituted our everyday life and social and political engagement.

Media’s own humongous archive-now increasingly digitised and circulated on app-driven multi-media platforms-is well worth some reflection. What is the nature of archival databases? Of documents? What do media offer evidence of? How is authenticity ascertained if copy-culture and media-manipulation are the new normal? How are the publics constituted and reconstituted by divergent media forms and devices? We shall grapple with such questions and more in a collective class-room spirit.

Touch: Forms and Meanings

Course Instructor: Priyadarshini Vijaisri

The course offers an unconventional critical way of exploring caste and themes of hierarchy, form, ideas and experience. Unlike conventional approaches, the course is designed around touch as an epistemic category and interweaves the overlapping conceptual approaches and the overarching themes thereby inaugurating critical ways of thinking. Deploying the idea of touch, the course will engage with questions about how tactile and other sensory experiences offer a critical understanding of the body, consciousness, inter-subjectivity and being. These methodological and thematic issues will be addressed through eclectic episodes and accounts woven around the conceptual grid of the senses. These topics will be introduced through sites and moments of ruptures and paradoxes from diverse literary, historical as well as ethnographic narratives.

The course will also ask what implications such an approach has for thinking about and beyond caste. The primacy of the West in shaping the discursive universe, especially of caste, poses fundamental epistemological and ethical challenges. The basic aim of this course is to critically rethink basic issues like the possibilities of creative and meaningful approaches to caste and the challenges posed by complex affective histories. More importantly, it brings to the fore questions concerning intellectual self-reflexivity and cultivation of particular kind of disposition in such engagements.

Research as Practice: Issues in Method

Course Instructors: Hilal Ahmed, Sanjay Kumar, Sanjeer Alam

This additional component of the course aims at exploring some of the fundamental questions in social science research, which are not given adequate intellectual attention. The component, broadly speaking, addresses three types of questions: (a) Issues related to academic presentation such as proposal writing, academic essay and thesis writing, and referencing. (b) Issues related to the practicalities of doing survey research such as developing survey questionnaire and evolving sampling, data analysis etc., and finally, (c) the issues related to the identification of sources and usability of official statistics such as Census and National Sample Surveys (NSS).

This is an intensive course with compulsory readings and class discussions.  Course materials will be made available. Participants are expected to make presentations and participate in a workshop at the end of the course period. A participation certificate will be awarded upon successful completion of the course.

The course will be conducted over 8 weeks between 4 July-31 August 2017. Classes will be held at CSDS on week-day afternoons, three days a week, from 2.30-5.30 pm.

Applications are invited from M.Phil/Ph.D students as well as independent researchers.  As part of your application please submit your C.V. and a 1000-word description of your research question/topic. The candidate must indicate the category (SC, ST, OBC, GENERAL), to which s/he belongs, in the application. Selected out-station participants shall be provided with roundtrip travel expenses (3-tier AC) and a stipend of INR 25,000.

Total number of seats: 40* (Some seats are reserved for SC and ST categories).

Deadline:  10 May 2017

Applications may be sent to: teaching@csds.in

For further details check: www.csds.in

* The number of seats is indicative and may increase or decrease depending upon the quality of applications.