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

Mobile/ WhatsApp: +27827081960

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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.

Registration Form

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
  

Further Details & Abstracts Submission 

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.