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Annual Report 2018-2019 AR-Cover 2019--FINAL FOR PRINTING-CONVERT TO OUTLINE.ai 1 02-05-2019 11:37:19 AR-Cover 2019--FINAL FOR PRINTING-CONVERT TO OUTLINE.ai 2 02-05-2019 11:37:26 ANNUAL REPORT 2018-2019 Tata Institute of Social Sciences Photographs TISS acknowledges the photographers of all the images included in this Annual Report. Photo credits have been given where information was provided. Page 1, 22, 224, 225: Nagaland Centre Page 4: Saksham Page 9 (Top): Information and Public Relations Department, Chatra Page 9 (Bottom): Vimal Chunni Page 10 (Top), 26, 29 (Bottom), 38, 47, 127, 145 & 174: Mangesh Gudekar Page 14 (Top): Department of Communications, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health Page 21: Neeraj Kumar Page 27 (Bottom) & 167: CEIAR Team Page 29 (Top): Deepa Bhalerao Page 34: Jennifer Mujawar Page 42 & 43: Counselling Centre Page 52: Sudha Ganapathi Cover Design: www.freepik.com © Tata Institute of Social Sciences, 2019 2018–2019 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 A Community Engaged University Called TISS .........................................................................................................................................1 Engagement with State, Society and the Industry ..................................................................................................................................3 Awards, Fellowships and Recognition ....................................................................................................................................................... 13 News from Off Campuses and Centres ...................................................................................................................................................... 18 Faculty and Academics .................................................................................................................................................................................... 25 International Relations Office ....................................................................................................................................................................... 32 Students and Alumni ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 35 Organisation Development and Management ...................................................................................................................................... 46 Financial Statement .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 49 Convocation 2019 ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 50 To Conclude… .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 51 TISS MUMBAI ............................................................................................................................................................53 Director and Deputy Director (Research) ................................................................................................................................................ 54 School of Development Studies .................................................................................................................................................................. 60 Jamsetji Tata School of Disaster Studies ................................................................................................................................................... 72 School of Education ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 80 School of Habitat Studies ............................................................................................................................................................................... 83 School of Health Systems Studies ............................................................................................................................................................... 92 School of Human Ecology ............................................................................................................................................................................101 School of Law, Rights and Constitutional Governance .....................................................................................................................107 School of Management and Labour Studies .........................................................................................................................................112 School of Media and Cultural Studies ......................................................................................................................................................118 School of Research Methodology .............................................................................................................................................................124 iv ANNUAL REPORT 2018–2019 TISS MUMBAI (Contd.) Research and Development ........................................................................................................................................................................127 School of Social Work .....................................................................................................................................................................................137 School of Vocational Education .................................................................................................................................................................163 Independent Centres .............................................................................................................................................166 Centre for Education Innovation and Action Research .....................................................................................................................167 Centre for Lifelong Learning .......................................................................................................................................................................174 Centre for Studies in Sociology of Education ........................................................................................................................................177 Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy .................................................................................................................179 Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library ..............................................................................................................................................................181 TISS TULJAPUR OFF CAMPUS ..............................................................................................................................185 TISS GUWAHATI OFF CAMPUS .............................................................................................................................194 TISS HYDERABAD OFF CAMPUS ..........................................................................................................................204 TISS OFF CAMPUS CENTRES .................................................................................................................................217 Centre for Development Practice and Research, Patna .....................................................................................................................219 Mahatma Gandhi Academy of Human Development, Nagaland ..................................................................................................224 CONVOCATION 2019 .............................................................................................................................................226 CONSTITUTIONAL BODIES ....................................................................................................................................251 ANNUAL REPORT 2018–2019 1 Prof. Shalini Bharat, Director, at the TISS Regional Centre in Chuchuyimlang, Nagaland A COMMUNITY ENGAGED UNIVERSITY CALLED TISS As a community-engaged Social Science University, Committed to enabling working professionals to the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) has evolved continue with their education and training, the as an educational ecosystem where students learn Institute offered several executive diploma and to ideate, innovate and translate what they learn for certificate programmes in niche professional domains. bringing about change in society. It is a space where Two such programmes were the Post-graduate classroom learning is blended with exposure to the Diploma in Health Care Quality Management field, communities, institutions, and corporate houses; in collaboration with National Health Systems locations of real time action. It is also the space where Resource Centre, Ministry of Health and Family courses and programmes are developed to address Welfare,
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