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ANNUAL REPORT 2015-16 Tata Institute of Social Sciences Original B&W Illustrations of TISS Mumbai (Main Campus) by Mario Miranda TISS Mumbai V.N. Purav Marg, Deonar Mumbai 400 088, Maharashtra TISS Tuljapur Post Box No. 9, Tuljapur 413 601 Osmanabad District, Maharashtra TISS Guwahati 14-A, Bhaban Road, Uzanbazar Guwahati 781 001, Assam TISS Hyderabad SR Sankaran Block, AMR-AP Academy of Rural Development, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad 500 030 Andhra Pradesh A Deemed University, established under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956 ANNUAL REPORT 2015-16 www.tiss.edu Tata Institute of Social Sciences Original B&W Illustrations of TISS Mumbai (Main Campus) by MARIO MIRANDA From The Creation of Wealth: The Tatas from From The Heartbeat of a Trust: The Story of the 19th to the 21st Century the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust by R.M. Lala (1981: pg.162) by R.M. Lala (1984 : pg. 61) Cover Design, Layout and Colouring by MUKUND SAWANT ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016 Tata Institute of Social Sciences Photographs Page 1, 2, 3, 8, 17 and 34: Mangesh Gudekar Page 21: Snehal Tagade and Praveen Page 28: Snehal Tagade Page 31: Shataakshi Verma © Tata Institute of Social Sciences, 2016 2015–2016 ANNUAL REPORT PRODUCTION TEAM Sudha Ganapathi, Vijender Singh and Gauri Galande Printed at India Printing Works, 42, G.D. Ambekar Marg, Wadala, Mumbai 400 031 Contents DIRECTOR’S REPORT Introduction ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................1 Our Work This Year... .............................................................................................................................................................................................4 Faculty and Academics .................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 International Relations Office ....................................................................................................................................................................... 16 Students and Alumni ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 18 Financial Statement .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 26 Organisation Development And Management ..................................................................................................................................... 27 76th Convocation .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 31 Concluding Remarks ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 32 TISS MumBai ............................................................................................................................................................35 Director, Director’s Office and Deputy Director ..................................................................................................................................... 36 School of Development Studies .................................................................................................................................................................. 45 Jamsetji Tata School of Disaster Studies ................................................................................................................................................... 53 School of Education ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 61 School of Habitat Studies ............................................................................................................................................................................... 65 School of Health Systems Studies ............................................................................................................................................................... 71 School of Human Ecology .............................................................................................................................................................................. 78 School of Law, Rights and Constitutional Governance ....................................................................................................................... 84 School of Management and Labour Studies ........................................................................................................................................... 89 School of Media and Cultural Studies ........................................................................................................................................................ 95 School of Research Methodology .............................................................................................................................................................100 Research and Development ........................................................................................................................................................................102 School of Social Work .....................................................................................................................................................................................104 TISS MumBai (Contd.) School of Vocational Education .................................................................................................................................................................132 Centre for Education Innovation and Action Research .....................................................................................................................136 Centre for Lifelong Learning .......................................................................................................................................................................140 Centre for Studies in Sociology of Education ........................................................................................................................................143 Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy .................................................................................................................144 Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library ..............................................................................................................................................................146 TISS TulJapur .......................................................................................................................................................151 TISS GUWAHati .....................................................................................................................................................161 TISS HYderaBad ..................................................................................................................................................167 76TH ConVocation .............................................................................................................................................177 Constitutional Bodies ....................................................................................................................................197 Prof. S. Parasuraman Director, TISS INTRODUCTION The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) was students on roll, with nearly one-fifth of them being established in 1936 as the Sir Dorabji Tata Graduate Doctoral Scholars. School of Social Work to train professionals to TISS continues to produce committed, high quality empower people with capacities to overcome human service professionals in a range of social poverty, deprivation and unemployment. Today, the and human development sectors: health, mental Institute keeps this vision alive through its extensive health, social epidemiology, clinical psychology, teaching, research, policy support, and field action education and vocational skill development, human programmes. resources management, media and cultural studies, TISS is a centrally funded public university, and rural and urban development, livelihoods and the University Grants Commission (UGC) of the social entrepreneurship, climate change, disaster Government of India (GoI) provides the Institute’s management, regulatory governance, women, Plan and Maintenance Grants. The Institute operates children, adolescents, youth, the elderly, disability from four campuses located in Mumbai and Tuljapur studies, and so on. in Maharashtra, Guwahati (Assam) and Hyderabad As an institution offering education in the inter- (Telangana); and has expanded its education, training, disciplinary areas of social sciences, our curriculum research and outreach activities in several states enable students to understand the pulse of society through its centres at Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and chart change processes that create appropriate Bihar, Chennai, Ladakh, Nagaland, New Delhi, Raipur, solutions to some of the most pressing issues in the Ranchi, and Thiruvananthapuram. It has over 4,500 country and become skilled professionals
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