Libri - Call for Student Papers

Best Student Research Paper Award 2019

 

IFLA/DE GRUYTER

 

DOI 10.1515/libri-XXXXXX

 

Since 1950, through 67 volumes, Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Studies has been a leader among scholarly journals in the international library and information science world. As part of its strategy to remain one of the premier library and information science journals, Libri is issuing a call for "Best Student Research Paper of 2019." This competition supports Libri's goal of publishing the best articles from the next generation of library and information science professionals. We are proud once again to recognize the very best article with this special award.

 

Students who are currently enrolled for a Masters or PhD or who have completed their Masters or PhD during the 24 months preceding the closing date of the competition[1] are invited to submit articles with clarity and authority. There is no stated theme. Research papers should address one of the significant issues facing today's librarians and information professionals. Case studies, best practices, and pure research papers are all welcome.

 

• Length: approx. 5,000 – 7,000 words (excluding the abstract and list of references)
• Language: English
• Deadline: June 30, 2019

 

The best paper will be selected by an independent panel consisting of selected members of the Editorial Board, the Advisory Board and other international experts. Submissions will be judged on the basis of

 

• originality of thought and observation
• depth of research and scholarship
• topicality of problems addressed
• the international readership of the journal
• the quality of the composition

 

The article will be published in the 2019:4 issue. The author of the winning article will be honoured with an award of 500.00 € and with a complimentary subscription to Libri for 2020.

 

If the quality of competition warrants, some papers may be designated as honourable mention and the authors will receive complementary subscriptions to Libri for 2020.  All winners will receive access to e-prints of their winning submission. 

 

Manuscripts should be submitted to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/libri. When submitting a paper for the Best Student Research Paper Award, please choose "Best Student Research Paper Award" at the drop-down menu "Manuscript Type." Author instructions and further indications of the scope of papers suitable for publication in Libri are available at the Libri site at http://www.degruyter.com/view/supplement/s18658423_Instructions_for_Authors_en.pdf.

 

All submissions should include a cover sheet confirming:

• the name of the institution where the student is or was enrolled
• the degree for which the student is or was enrolled
• the dates when the student is or was enrolled
• the degree/course/module for which the paper was prepared
• the date when the paper was written

 

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[1] Exception: Senior information scholars returning to school for additional degrees outside the field of library and information science are not eligible for this award.

Call for Nominations: 2019 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship

2019 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship

 

Call for Nominations

 

1. NATURE OF THE AWARD

The Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship consists of an award of USD 3,000 (donated by the Eugene Garfield Foundation) to cover any research related expenses (including traveling) of the grant recipient, contingent upon the recipient's attending ISSI2019, the next ISSI biennial conference. This conference will be held in Rome, Italy, September 2-5, 2019.

 

2. PURPOSE OF THE AWARD

The purpose of this scholarship is to foster research in informetrics, including bibliometrics, scientometrics, webmetrics and altmetrics by encouraging and assisting doctoral students in the field with their dissertation research.

 

3. ELIGIBILITY

The scholarship recipient must meet the following qualifications:

(a) Be an active doctoral candidate pursuing research using informetric, bibliometric, scientometric, webmetric or altmetric methodology in a degree-granting institution;

(b) Have a doctoral dissertation proposal accepted by the institution or by their dissertation advisor.

Clarification: an active doctoral student is someone who has not yet obtained the doctoral degree at the moment he/she receives the award. Moreover, the applicant need not be a member of ISSI to be considered for this scholarship.

 

4. ADMINISTRATION

The award is sponsored by the Eugene Garfield Foundation with the cooperation of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and is administered by the Board of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI).

 

5. NOMINATIONS

Submission should include the following:

(a) The doctoral research proposal, including a description of the research, methodology, and significance, 5 pages or less in length, double-spaced, and in English;

(b) A copy of the paper submitted for presentation at the ISSI Conference; 

(c) A cover letter from the dissertation advisor endorsing the proposal and confirming that the contents of this proposal are accepted by the institute, or at least by the advisor;

(d) An up-to-date curriculum vitae.

 

6. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND DEADLINE

Deadline for submission is March 15, 2019. All proposals should be submitted in PDF by e-mail to ISSI Board member Birger Larsen at egdds.award@gmail.com. An acknowledgement of receipt will be sent to candidates.

 

7. SELECTION

All the submitted material, in particular the doctoral research proposal, and the paper submitted to this year's ISSI conference, will be taken into consideration in the evaluation. The evaluation committee will consist of a subcommittee of no more than four individuals, with one ISSI Board member serving as Chair.

 

8. CONFERENCE PRESENTATION

The recipient of the award will be given the opportunity to present his/her work either during a normal session (if his/her paper has been  accepted for presentation), either as a special lecture on the same level as research in progress. This presentation will be referred to as the special Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship Lecture.

 

Some further clarifications

a) The candidate must have the intention to attend the conference, as shown by a submitted paper.

b) The awardee is free to use the award money as he/she pleases. The award does not have to (but of course may) be used for travelling to the conference.

c) The awardee is not automatically entitled to an (extra) travel grant from the conference organizers or from ISSI. Of course he/she may apply for such a grant (if such grants are made available by the organizers) like any other conference participant.

 

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Digital Bharat, Saksham Bharat: A Compendium on Digital India released

Digital Bharat, Saksham Bharat: A Compendium on Digital India released 

Source: Press Information Bureau | 21-February 2019 | http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=188832

A Digital India Compendium on Digital Bharat, Saksham Bharat was released by Hon'ble Minister for Electronics & Information Technology and Law & Justice, Sh. Ravi Shankar Prasad at Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

The objective of the document is to disseminate and propagate the success of Digital India among masses. The document is divided in two sections- Digital profile of India and Digital profile of States & UTs. Digital profile of India comprises a in-depth analysis, comparative study of implementation of Digital India Programme and transformation it has brought out in the lives of citizens. It has simplified the way citizens avail various Government services and has brought transparency and accountability. Digital profile of States/ UTs reflects the State/ UT wise implementation of various initiatives taken under Digital India Programme.

The document emphasizes Digital India initiatives that aim to transform India into a knowledge-based economy and digitally empowered society by ensuring digital access, digital inclusion, digital empowerment and bridging the digital divide.

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CSSP is among the Top S&T Think Tanks in TTCSP 2018 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report

Source: https://repository.upenn.edu/think_tanks/16/

RIS Discussion Paper | "Government's Policies and Growth of Pharmaceutical Industry in India 1947-2018: A Review"

Government's Policies and Growth of Pharmaceutical Industry in India 1947-2018: A Review

by Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, RIS Discussion Paper, No. 236, January 2019.

Abstract: The Indian Government policies on the development and growth of pharmaceutical industry, since India's independence in 1947 to 2018 have registered a sea-change. The establishment of the public sector undertakings (PSUs) at the beginning was to reduce foreign dependence for active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) . The policies framed in late 1960s and early 1970s were built on perturbed economic situation and on experience of wars and on the observations that local multinational companies (MNCs) were not ready to invest on infrastructure for APIs unless compelled to. Indian industrial laws for manufacture and trade, abatement of monopoly, control of foreign exchange outflow as also protection of intellectual property rights on inventions were framed and modified to encourage manufacturing of APIs and formulations locally with the primary aim of import-substitution; the indigenous industry was 'protected' for a long period up to 1991 by administering 'cost-plus' prices on selected APIs and formulations made there from; their imports were regulated by levying heavy import duties. The prices of essential formulations were thus controlled. The drugs prices control orders (DPCOs) from 1970 to 1994 were for maneuvering the country through price-controlled regimen of diverse kinds, from more controls to lesser control measures over years. After India joined the World Trade Organization in 1991, the legal instruments changed fast, setting the process of liberalization into motion. Industrial licensing policies were liberalized. The drugs policies and pricing measures were altered, intending to gradually move towards price- monitoring regime, as was reflected in DPCO2002 and 2013 and the draft Drug Policy 2017. Such measures led to price rise of several medicines in trade thereby raising out-of-pocket medical expenses of people. The local API industry was affected because of liberalization. The promulgation of future policies in 2019 and thereafter would have to be a judicial balancing between expectations of the consumers to have 'fair prices' of essential medicines and the concerns of the industry to remain financially healthy, and at the same time ensuring a strong API production base in India. 

Keywords: Essential Drugs, Drugs Price Control Order, DPCO, Drug Policy, Indian Pharmaceutical Industry, NPPA, Industrial Licensing Policy, I(D&R) Act, R& D Incentives, Pharma R&D.

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NISCAIR Panel Discussion on "Indian Scholarly Journals: Contemporary Issues and Aspects" | 27 February 2019, CSIR-NISCAIR, Pusa

NISCAIR Panel Discussion on "Indian Scholarly Journals: Contemporary Issues and Aspects"

[National Science Day Celebrations]

27 February 2019, CSIR-NISCAIR, Pusa

Marie Skłodowska Curie Post-doctoral Fellowship is Awarded to Dr. Anwesha Borthakur of CSSP, JNU

Marie Skłodowska Curie Post-doctoral Fellowship is Awarded to Dr. Anwesha Borthakur

"During the Marie Skłodowska Curie postdoctoral fellowship, I shall analyse why emerging economies adopt E-waste policies that seem inadequate and ineffective in their local contexts and identify alternative approaches. My research will involve two case studies towards analyzing the effectiveness of E-waste policies - 1) India and 2) South Africa. The research aims to make conceptual, empirical and policy-relevant contributions. During this fellowship, I shall be based at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium (ranked 48th in the World University Rankings 2019)." 

--- Dr. Anwesha Borthakur (former Doctoral Student at CSSP, JNU).

Further Details about MSCA Fellowships

A Talk on "Changing News Media Landscape in India" | Today at JNU

An interactive session with Mr Milind Khandekar, Digital Editor, BBC India on 'Changing News Media Landscape in India' on Friday, February 15, at 3 pm in Room No. 344, School of International Studies II , JNU, New Delhi

All are welcome to attend.

Release of Report "Exports to Jobs: Boosting the Gains from Trade in South Asia" | 28 February at IHC New Delhi

Release of the Report "Exports to Jobs: Boosting the Gains from Trade in South Asia"

on Thursday, February 28, 2019

at Tamarind Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

Organized by ICRIER, World Bank Group and International Labor Organization (ILO)

PROGRAMME

09:30 – 10 am: Registration

10:00 – 11:30 am: Welcome Address | Prof. Anwarul Hoda, Chair Professor, Trade Policy and WTO Research Programme, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)

Special Address: Shri Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog | Shri Heeralal Samariya, Secretary (L&E), Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of India

Opening Address: Mr. Junaid Kamal, Country Director India, World Bank | Ms. Dagmar Walter, Country Director-India, International Labour Organization

Release of the Report | "Exports to Jobs: Boosting the Gains from Trade in South Asia"  World Bank Group and International Labor Organization

Presentation of the Report | By Ms. Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, World Bank and Mr. Daniel Samaan, International Labour Organization

11:45 am – 01 pm: Panel Discussion on How to Reinvigorate the Labor Market through Greater Export Growth

• Chair: Ms. Nidhi Mani Tripathi, Joint Secretary – TPD (Services), Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India

Panelists:

• Mr. Srinivasan Iyer, Program Officer, The Ford Foundation
• Ms. Sabina Dewan, President and Executive Director, Just Jobs Network
• Ms. Radhicka Kapoor, Senior Fellow, ICRIER
• Mr. Martin Rama,  Senior Advisor, World Bank
• Prof. Ajit Ghose, Visiting Professor, Institute for Human Development

01 pm – 01:30 pm: Question and Answer

01:30 – 01:35 pm: Vote of Thanks | Mr. Martin Rama, Senior Advisor, World Bank

 

RSVP

Dr. Rajat Kathuria, Director & Chief Executive, ICRIER

Core-6A, 4th Floor, India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi - 110003, India

Tel: 01143112400; Fax: 24620180 | E-mail: rajat.kathuria[@]icrier.res.in

Registration

Call for Participation: "Re-Greening India - Water for All: Critical need for coherence in policies and actions" | 23rd February at IIC Delhi

Re-Greening India - Water for All: Critical need for coherence in policies and actions

Date & Time: Saturday, 23^rd February 2019; 1300 - 1730 Hrs

Venue: Multipurpose Hall, India International Centre, New Delhi

Organized by: The Club of Rome-India

We hope you will accept our kind invitation and join us at this very interesting forum as it may carve out way for 'Right to Water Act' in India.

Fundamental Issues

Water is the most important resource for the survival of life on this planet, it is a fundamental human need and a critical national and an international asset. In every drop of water, there is a story of life and livelihoods. Unfortunately, this precious resource is depleting swiftly everywhere. The world's water resources are, however, under increasing pressure from a growing human population, expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, and increasing per capita consumption of water, the demand for water will grow by about 55 percent between now and 2050 exacerbating current pressure. India has about 17 percent of the world's population as compared to only 4 percent of its water resources. The water sector in India has faced significant and problematic issues related to management. Despite a sizeable water resource base and vast land resource, challenges of water sector infrastructure requirements, including operating and upkeep costs, etc. are significantly higher. Earth science and environmental policy issues confronting society are the potential changes in the Earth's water cycle due to climate change. Global climate change will affect the water cycle, creating perennial droughts in some areas and frequent floods in others. 

Targets

• 'Water for All' means for ALL living things and not only for humans.
• Per capita, water availability must include disparity in water allocation and access
• Comprehensive assessment of India's water sector, from an interdisciplinary perspective.
• Exploring Alternative strategies
• Educating technocrats with integration skills.
• Erratic distribution of rain, often contributing to floods and droughts in several areas
• Water use inefficiency 
• Unregulated groundwater extraction
• Water pollution
• Decreasing water quality due to poor waste management laws
• Interstate river disputes
• Growing financial crunch for the development of resources
• Safe drinking water
• Private investments and private sector partnership in Water for all

Debate Needed Today

The essence of the 'debate needed today' for policy coherence, revolving around:

(a) Social Equity

(b) Healthy Environment and

(c) Viable Economy

We should move away from conventional, narrowly defined approaches that focus primarily on specific projects and activities – such as big dams and large-scale projects.

Impact

Water is an immeasurably political issue. This resource interacts with a highly inequitable society marked with class, caste and gender differentiation. Techno-managerial reforms in the water sector cannot tackle the issues of inequity in the water supply. India has signed the 2010 United Nations (UN) declaration of water as a right, this gives equal opportunities for all. The focus of the seminar is to evolve an environment where water is available for all in a sustainable manner—safe drinking water for basic needs, adequate water for agriculture, water for industry and for the ecosystem. So, the challenge before our meeting is to identify the Innovations, Investments, and Convergences that India now has to bring about to create a development pathway that provides all its citizens, rich and poor, with an adequate quality of water without destroying its sources.

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17th STIP Forum Lecture "Science, Technology, and Society: The Challenge of Reaching Out" by Prof. M. Sai Baba | 15 February, IHC New Delhi

Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP) Forum Lecture Series

 

Science, Technology, and Society: The Challenge of Reaching Out

by

Prof. M. Sai Baba

[T.V. Raman Pai Chair Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangaluru]

 

 Chair: Shri Gauhar Raza [Leading Science Communicator and Former Scientist, CSIR]

 

Date: 15 February 2019 (Friday) Time: 7:00 PM 

RSVP: Mr.Tish Malhotra/Mr. N. N. Krishnan, Tel.: 011-24682176, 011-24682184 | Email: dgoffice@ris.org.in

DST Special Call for proposals under SC & ST Category under ICPS programme | Last Date 15-02-2019

DST Special Call for proposals under SC & ST Category under ICPS programme

The Scheme: Proposals are invited from SC & ST categories only for conducting the following:

1. Conduction of national level Conferences/workshops/Seminars/brain storming sessions etc of three days duration.

2. Training programmes: In-house Short term training/FDP Programmes for Faculty/UG/PG/Doctoral students of two weeks duration.

3. Building awareness at School level and at ITI, Polytechnic, Advanced Training Institutes (ATI).

The above are to be conducted under broader indicative topics like 

1. Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Applications

2. Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL)

3. Data Science and Big Data Analytics

4. Quantum Science & Technology

5. Cyber Security, crypt analysis and security for physical infrastructure

6. Block chain Technology

7. Sensor Networks, Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Everything

8. Robotics and advanced Manufacturing

Further Details | Last Date for Submission: 15-02-2019

Panel Discussion on 'Information Technologies – Computing, Communications and Machine Intelligence: The Next Twenty Five Years' | IIC New Delhi, 19 February

Feb 19 NITI Aayog, India International Centre and Centre for Policy Research are pleased to invite you to the valedictory session on Information Technologies – Computing, Communications and Machine Intelligence: The Next Twenty Five Years Chair: N N Vohra, President, India International Centre Opening Remarks by: Ambassador Shyam Saran, Life Trustee, India International Centre Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog    Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research Keynote Speaker: Arogyaswami Paulraj, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, USA  Tuesday, 19 February 2019, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Multipurpose Hall, Kamla Devi Complex, India International Centre, New Delhi   Metamorphoses Website   Sign up for the event at this link. This is necessary given seating requirements. We are at the dawn of a new era in Information Technologies, driven by the recent breakthroughs in Machine Intelligence, and supported by impressive advances in Computing and Communications. This talk will outline the history of Information Technology and its likely evolution in the near future. And, more importantly, discuss the potential societal impact of these technologies. The talk will then survey India's record in developing Information Technologies and the opportunities for the country to become a significant innovator in this vital domain. The talk will be livestreamed on the IIC website; streamed through Facebook-live on the Metamorphoses Facebook page; and video recordings will be available on YouTube, as well as disseminated through social media channels hosted on the Metamorphoses website. The promotional video for Metamorphoses can be accessed here. Questions will be taken on a special number through SMS, provided at the venue, and selected ones will be answered given time constraints. Arogyaswami Paulraj is an Emeritus Professor at Stanford University. He is the inventor and a pioneer of MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) wireless technology, the key to all modern wireless networks. He has authored over 400 research publications, several text books and a co-inventor in 80 US patents. He founded three technology companies in the US which were later acquired by Intel, Broadcom and Hewlett Packard Enterprises. His major recognitions include the Friendship Award from the Government of PR China, US Government National Inventors Hall of Fame, the Marconi Prize and the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell medal. He is a fellow of several National Academies in Eng. and Sciences in the US, China and Sweden. Paulraj served in Indian Navy for 25 years where he developed ASW Sonar Technology and later founded three Labs - CDAC (DEITY), CAIR(DRDO) and CRL(BEL/MOD). His recognitions in India include the Padma Bhushan, a civilian national award. Metamorphoses is a modest effort to try and bridge the gap between digital technologies, which are transforming our lives, and our understanding of their multiple dimensions. It will unfold in a series of nine interactions covering different aspects of the digital revolution. This series will examine the impacts of digital technologies on the human psyche and on societies – exploring ways in which some of the negative elements may be mitigated. There will be a peep into the future – of what machine learning and artificial intelligence may bring to human experience – and the moral and ethical dilemma associated with these. It will also delve into issues relating to data privacy and cyber security as well as the emerging legal regime to regulate this critical domain.   Tweet Share Forward

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Lecture "Genetic Disorders of Dietary Excess: Getting to the Heart of the Matter" | by Dr Helen Hobbs | 15th February at AICTE Auditorium, JNU Campus

The TNQ Distinguished Lectures in the Life Sciences 2019

"Genetic Disorders of Dietary Excess: Getting to the Heart of the Matter"

Speaker: Dr Helen Hobbs

15th February 2019 | AICTE Auditorium, JNU Campus

Breakthrough Prize Laureate Helen Hobbs is the 2019 Speaker of the TNQ Distinguished Lectures in the Life Sciences.

About the Speaker: Dr Helen H. Hobbs, Investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Director of the Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, is the 2019 Speaker of the TNQ Distinguished Lectures in the Life Sciences. As part of this lecture series, now in its ninth edition, she will be giving lectures in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and New Delhi. Professor Hobbs' work is focussed on searching for genetic factors that contribute to, and protect us from, diseases arising from dietary excess as food has become easily available and human beings more sedentary. In 1999, along with her colleagues, Professor Hobbs established the Dallas Heart Study (DHS) aimed at identifying factors that contribute to coronary heart disease and metabolic disorders. This 3500+ population group study showed that mutations in the protein PCSK9 result in lower levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the cholesterol in the blood that leads to atherosclerosis or the clogging of arteries. These observations led to the rapid development of two FDA-approved, anti-PCSK9 antibodies for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia and the prevention of coronary atherosclerosis. More recently, Dr Hobbs' team has identified sequence variations that are associated with the full spectrum of alcoholic and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (FLD), including steatosis, steatohepatitis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Dr Hobbs and her team found that mutations in the protein PNPLA3 were strongly linked to this condition. Yet another screen showed that a mutation in TM6SF2 led to an increase in fat content. Dr Hobbs' team has shown that this protein helps the liver secrete fat into the blood in triglyceride-rich lipoproteins. Dr Hobbs attended Stanford University and Case Western Reserve Medical School before training in internal medicine at the Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr Joseph Goldstein and Dr Michael Brown, she joined the faculty of UT Southwestern. Dr Hobbs was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2004 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2007. 

Admission to the lectures is free and open to all.  Online Registration

CSD Training workshop on Qualitative Methods in Social Sciences: Ethnography, Narratives and Social Stories | 11-15 March

One week programme on Qualitative Methods in Social Sciences: Ethnography, Narratives and Social Stories

11-15 March 2019

Venue: Council for Social Development, Lodi Estate, New Delhi

Organized by Council for Social Development, New Delhi; G B Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad; & Anthropological Survey of India, Govt. of India

Last Date of Application: 28 February 2019

Objectives

This workshop will critically examine the practices in social science researches on India society, which often miss out the nuances of social plurality. Most of the existing qualitative research methods are based on Western anthropology or ethnography, which have limitations for understanding Indian society that has some unique characteristics, apart from the plurality of caste and communities and diversities of regions. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a training in qualitative research methods to capture the pluralistic nature of Indian society. This workshop will orient the researchers to explore their own eyes to understand Indian society in the context of locale and indigenous veracity.

Training

Session 1: Understanding qualitative research and Specificities of Indian society

Session 2: Preparing the researcher for qualitative research and introducing different methods

Session 3: Selecting the field: deconstructing the debate of own society vs. others societies

Session 4: Relating with field: blurring the boundaries of outsider and insider

Session 5: Field research: selection of respondents; family tree and biographical notes of respondents; retrieving the memories; semi structured and un-structured interviews (Baat-se-baat methodology); focused group discussions (FGDs) to validate the facts and fill in the incomplete stories; field diary, notes and queries of observations; capturing the silence, murmuring, half sentences

Session 6: Data analysis: transcription; reading the field notes; inclusion of left out resources (proverbs, folk stories and songs); content analysis and discourse analysis; understanding the casteorality

Session 7: Visual representation of qualitative data

Session 8: How to write social stories

Course Contribution: Rs 3,000/- (three thousand) per participant for kit bag, course material, lunch and refreshment. The participants will have to make their own arrangements for accommodation.

Last Date for Nomination/application: 28 February 2019

Contact for further information or any clarification: Please contact: Dr. Susmita Mitra, Assistant Professor, Council for Social Development, 53 Lodi Estate (KK Birla Marg), New Delhi, 110003 | E-mail: susmita[@]csdindia.org Telephone: +91-11- 24615383 (ext 220) | Dr. Archana Singh, Assistant Professor, G B Pant Social Science Institute, archanaparihar[@]gmail.com

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New Booklet | "Spoorthi: Celebrating Indian Women in Science"

Spoorthi: Celebrating Indian Women in Science

by IndiaBioscience, 2019. 

About the Booklet: The word 'Spoorthi' in Sanskrit means inspiration, enthusiasm or spark. Celebrating this spark that each woman carries within her, we decided to put together an e-booklet featuring conversations with women from many different science professions and compiling resources that they may find useful. These conversations touch upon various ideas, issues, challenges, and experiences that are an intrinsic part of being a woman in science in India. Featured in this booklet are articles on mentorship and harassment, leaky pipelines and bystander training, rewards of a scientific career and challenges of balancing science with motherhood, and finally, various suggestions on building an inclusive and nurturing environment for people of every gender. In addition to this, the booklet also includes a list of grants and awards for women in science in India, a section on laws and redressal mechanisms for sexual harassment in the workplace, and a timeline featuring ten iconic women in the history of science in India.

Table Of Contents 

• Foreword
  
• Conversations
  

Q: What has helped you the most in reaching where you are today? The leaky pipeline: A social scientist's perspective by Anitha Kurup

Q: Who are some of the female role models or mentors that you have looked up to? The sum of the parts of a mentor by Sreelaja Nair

Q: What is your favourite part of being in science? Science as a rewarding career choice – Is it? By Sandhya S Visweshwariah

Q: What were the biggest challenges you faced in your journey to this point and how did you overcome them? He is not a gender-neutral pronoun by Rashna Bhandari | Improving gender equity in academic workspaces by Sunil Mukhi

Q: What does success mean to you? Scientist and mommy by Shubha Tole

Q: What changes do you believe will help future generations of women in science the most? Plugging the leaky pipeline by Vaishnavi Ananthnarayanan | Bystander training in academic spaces by Sandhya P Koushika

Q: Is there any message that you want to pass on to the young women of tomorrow? Ten Iconic Women in Indian Science

• Resources
  

Funding and awards for women in science in India | Understanding Sexual Harassment in the Workplace | Sexual harassment of women at the workplace- redressal mechanisms.

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Call for Papers: XVII Triple Helix Conference 2019 - a Catalyst for Change | Cape Town, South Africa

The XVII Triple Helix Conference 2019, Triple Helix - a Catalyst for Change

Cape Town, South Africa | 9-11 September 2019

Call for Papers

The Triple Helix model presents an opportunity to achieve innovation outcomes for the socio-economic good through collaboration with multi stakeholders within academia, industry and government spheres. Local and international researchers, policy makers and practitioners will gather together to discuss how to affect positive change by bringing the creators, implementers and enablers of innovation in social, economic and environmental issues together in research collaborations, policy initiatives and political actions in society. 

This call for papers links the Triple Helix with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs-Agenda 2030) and the Africa Union Agenda 2063. Exploring this connection and developing follow up will be a major projected outcome of the 2019 conference. 

SDG-Agenda 2030 are a collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 (Resolution 70/1) to "Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development."

Agenda2063: Toward the Africa we want is the strategic framework for the socio-economic transformation of the continent over the next 50 years adopted in 2015. These agenda aims to make the world a better place for all and calls on academia, governments and business to collaborate in new ways to make our world a better place to live in. 

The concept of the Triple Helix of university-industry-government relationships initiated in the 1990s by Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff, analyzes the shift from a predominant industry-government dyad in Industrial Society to triadic relationships among university-industry-government in the Knowledge Society. 

The Triple Helix thesis is that the potential for innovation and economic development in a Knowledge Society resides in a more prominent role for the university in innovation and entrepreneurship and in the hybridisation of elements of institutional spheres and actors, generating new institutional and social formats for the production, transfer and utilization of knowledge. 

A growing community of researchers, practitioners and policy makers carries the Triple Helix project  forward into the 21st century through the Triple Helix Association, including Helice, the Triple Helix Magazine and the open access Triple Helix Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship  and various world region, regional and local cognate organizations, for example, The International Triple Helix Institute, Silicon Valley, and its Global Entrepreneurial University Metrics (GEUM) collaboratory project. 

The call for conference papers, PhD session, poster and Panel session themes are:

Theme 1: The Role of the Entrepreneurial University and University-Industry-government interactions in the XXI Century's Economic Development Agendas

Theme 2: Social Entrepreneurship and Inclusive Innovation in Civil Society: The Role of Design Thinking and Citizen Science

Theme 3: Post-Industrial Industrial Policy: Convergence and Fusion of Arts, Creative and Service Industries, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Genetic Technologies  

Theme 4: Spacial and Temporal Axes of Innovation: Innovation Spaces, Smart Cities and Knowledge-based Rural Development

Theme 5: Gender and Indigenous Equity and Equality in Science, Technology and Innovation 

Theme 6: Other topics related to Triple Helix

Submit Abstract: The major projected outcome of this conference is to explore the connection between the SDGs outlined in the UN Agenda 2030 /African Union Agenda 2063 and the conference themes to develop a legacy project to impact all of Africa. This can only be achieved by bringing together all stakeholders. Introducing a second Call for Speakers and Content contributions (panel and round table discussions, keynotes and workshops).

Contact the organizers to collaborate or find out more:

E-mail: info@triple-helix.co.za

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JNU-Brill Author Workshop on "How to Publish a Paper" | 15th February

Author Workshop on "How to Publish a Paper"

Jointly Organized by JNU & BRILL 

Date: 15th February 2019, 11:00 am - 1:15 pm 

Venue: Library Committee Room (Mezzanine Floor), Dr BR Ambedkar Central Library, JNU

Resource Person: Mr. Marti Huetink, Publishing Director, Brill, The Netherlands 

About Brill: Founded in 1683 in Leiden, The Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher focusing on Humanities and Social Sciences, International Law and Biology. Brill has developed distinctive platforms for its online resources. Brill publishes close to 1,400 books and reference works per year in both print and electronic format. Titles are often collated in Brill's E-Book Collection. Brill publishes over 300 journals titles . Many of Brill's journals are indexed by major abstracting & indexing services, such as Web of Science and Scopus. All back volumes are digitized and are included in the Brill Journal Archives Online. In addition to its journals and books publishing programmes, Brill also offers reference works and primary source materials, including prestigious publications such as the Encyclopedia of Islam, Brill's New Pauly and The Hague Academy Collected Courses.

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CfPs: 2nd International Conference on Large-Scale Grid Integration of Renewable Energy in India | 4-6 September | New Delhi

2nd International Conference on Large-Scale Grid Integration of Renewable Energy in India

4-6 September 2019 | New Delhi, India

Organized by: GIZ, DFID, USAID, Energynautics, & others

Conference Website: Regridintegrationindia.org

Call for Papers

The Conference provides an International Forum to:

• Discuss technical and economic issues of the large-scale integration of solar and wind power including the recent advances in transmission technologies (AC and DC)
  
• Discuss worldwide project experiences
  
• Discuss innovative ideas and present results from ongoing research
  
• Stimulate interdisciplinary thinking between renewable energy and power transmission and distribution industries, as well as universities
  
• Identify subjects requiring more research efforts.
  

The Government of India has set the very ambitious goal to install 175 GW of renewable energy generation capacity by 2022. Grid integration thus becomes a very critical challenge to successfully accomplish this target. This international conference aims to connect international experts and Indian stakeholders to jointly discuss the latest technological, regulatory and conceptual developments in this field.

• To submit a paper, upload an abstract of maximum 3,000 characters (free style) between 25 January & 31 March 2019.
  
• Final papers must then be submitted online by 31 July 2019.
  
• As the conference language is English, all abstracts have to be written in English.
  
• All participants are responsible for paying their own travel and hotel expenses.
  
• Conference registration is free. 
  

Topics

• Project Experience
  
• Power Market (including Ancillary)
  
• Power System Studies
  
• Distribution Grid Issues
  
• Transmission Grid/Power System Issues
  
• Wind & Solar Modelling Issues
  
• Power System Balancing Issues
  
• Grid Code Issues
  
• Forecasting
  
• Hybrid Power Systems
  
• Smart Grid/IT Innovations
  
• Electric vehicles
  

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JNU Workshop on Modernity, Institutions and Education: Humanities, Technology and Science in a Globalized World | 11 February

Centre for Historical Studies (CAS Programme) in collaboration with USIC and School of Engineering, JNU

Cordially invite you to a 

Workshop on Modernity, Institutions and Education: Humanities, Technology and Science in a Globalized World

On 11th  February 2019

Lecture Hall 3, JNU Convention Centre

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, a German Theoretical Physicist (one of 18 prominent international scientists to launch the Earth League) argued for a global interdisciplinary alliance of leading research institutes that focus on Earth system analysis and sustainability science, including economy.The 19th  century revolutionised institutions, particularly in terms of technological education to 'manage' other institutions related to environment, law and order and general material progress. The dominant historical perspective on lack of Science and technology in India is that the colonial interregnum had an adverse impact on economy which left independent India too weak for investment in heavy technology and science (Roy MacLeod and Deepak Kumar (eds), Technology and the Raj: Western Technology and Technical Transfers to India 1700-1947, Delhi: Sage, 1995).

The aim of this workshop is to engage in discussion around the all-pervasive and universal nature of scientific and technological institutions which cut across disciplines, i.e. Sciences, Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences, Communications and Environment and Information Technology. This workshop seeks a new approach by opening up issues of social justice and social welfare to technology and sciences.   

Programme

Venue : Lecture Hall 3, Convention Centre, JNU

9:30 am : Opening remarks by CHS Chairperson, Director USIC,  Dean, School of Engineering, JNU

• Introduction by conveners: Dr Jyoti Atwal and Prof Shatendra Sharma
  

09:30 – 12:00

• Prof Harish Naraindas (CSSS, JNU): Tropical Medicine in History
  
• Dr Radha Gayathri (ERRU/CHS, JNU):  Medical Educations in India: A Brief History
  
• Prof SK Sharma (USIC, SE, JNU): History of Technical Institutions in India
  
• Ms Priya Salam (Research Scholar, CHS, JNU): History of the IITs in India.  
  

High Tea: 12:00 pm

12:30 -1:30

• Special Indo- Irish Lecture: Prof Andrew J Deeks (President, University College Dublin, Ireland) on Changes, Constants and Challenges in the Evolving University (Chaired by Ambassador of Ireland, HE Ambassador Brian McElduff)
  

13:45 Vote of thanks by conveners

A Talk on 'Digital Disruption in India' by Dr Gulshan Rai, National Cyber Security Coordinator | 11th February at 5:00 pm

A Talk on 'Digital Disruption in India' 

by Dr Gulshan Rai, National Cyber Security Coordinator

on Monday 11th February, 2019 at 5:00pm

A line of confirmation will be highly appreciated. RSVP: info@vifindia.org.