The Social and Behavioural Sciences (SBS) PhD program will provide core education common to addressing social and behavioural issues. PhD students who enroll in coursework will develop expertise in:
The program is designed to train researchers in three areas:
Our Ph.D. fellows will be working in teams of students and expert researchers in projects that promote women’s empowerment and rural development by implementing social solutions. For example, life skills courses and vocational skills are provided and are geared towards supporting personal growth and healthy community development.
Social and Behavioral Sciences
The Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) PhD program provides core education essential for addressing social and behavioral issues. PhD students who enroll in this coursework will develop expertise in:
The program trains researchers in three key areas:
Our Ph.D. fellows work in teams of students and expert researchers on projects promoting women’s empowerment and rural development by implementing social solutions. Examples include life skills and vocational skills courses, which support personal growth and healthy community development.
Social and Behavioural Science is an overlapping discipline of Sociology, Psychology and other social science subjects which helps in understanding and predicting human behaviour. The School of Social and Behavioural Sciences at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham provide opportunities to work with other human sciences with an interdisciplinary approach. The program understands the need for comprehending social trends but to emerge as highly valued individuals with research and analytical skills.
The program provides the scholars to develop sensitivity to the issues and opportunity to engage in discussions and activities with regulatory bodies for health, community development and Child Rights and Child Protection.
The program is dedicated to ensuring the use of cutting-edge research tools for identifying social problems and execute innovative solutions. This program aims to develop the skills required for social scientists most sought out by organisations nowadays. The program will enable the social scientists in developing analytical skills, research, human resource exercises and empathetic skills to solve challenges in the society.
Our Social Sciences campus is located at the Amrita Hospital, Faridabad, the largest multispecialty private hospital in India. Amrita School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Faridabad is a constituent unit of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, who’s Director, Dr. Rao R. Bhavani, holds India’s only UNESCO Chair in Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment.
With a built-up area of more than 85,000 square feet, the Faridabad campus provides state of the art teaching-learning facilities for the students that include digital classrooms and computer labs, as well as access and exposure to multi-disciplinary specialty fields in areas of medicine, technology, social sciences, and more. The Faridabad campus also has the unique advantage of being within the Delhi NCR area with close connections to high-profile offices at the Government of India, United Nations, and other leading organizations. Further, with Amrita’s commitment of service to society and the country’s most vulnerable populations, students will have the opportunity to work with local communities in and around Haryana state, including rural and urban areas, tribal and other marginalized communities, and vulnerable populations from across the social spectrum.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has not appointed any agent or third-party representative within India for admissions to any programme. Students residing in India are advised not to make payments or seat reservation advances to any individual or organization claiming to offer admission assistance for Amrita campuses.
For international admissions, the University may work with authorized overseas representatives in select countries. International applicants are advised to verify the credentials of such representatives through official Amrita communication channels before proceeding with applications or payments.
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Eligibility
Applicants from a wide range of academic disciplines can apply, including Sociology, Psychology, Pedagogy, Anthropology, Economics, Social Work. Completed a Master’s degree or must be in their final semester of Master’s program in any of the academic disciplines mentioned above.
PhD Eligibility Criteria as per University Guidelines
Eligibility
Postgraduate in any discipline of Social Science, Social Work, Psychology and Development studies.
Compassion Driven Research lies at the Core of Amrita’s value and identity.
There are two kinds of poverty. The poverty that comes with the lack of food, clothing and shelter. The second kind of poverty is the lack of love and compassion. If we address the second kind of poverty first, we automatically address the first kind of poverty.
– Amma
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| Name of the Research Lab |
Major Facilities / Equipment Details |
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| Skill Intelligence Lab | Interdisciplinary research at the laboratory
will study the complexity of skills and their enhancement through teaching,based on models of skill learning. |
Major Domains:
1.HAPTICS – TeslaSuit-2, SenseGlove DK1-2,Bar Bending Simulator. 2.GAZE & MOTION CAPTURE – Tesla Suit – 2, Rokoko IMU based Smartsuit with Gloves-2. 3.VR & AR – Hololens-3, Oculus Quest 2. 4.NEUROCOGNITION – Brain Products EEG, Analyser & Recorder softwares, -2. 5. SYSTEMS – Powerful Gaming Laptops, Al & Data Science Workstations,Cloud Services-Google/AWS, Network Attached Storage. |
| Skill eLab | Learning technology services and research for skill development | VR Headsets
Unity3D/ VR computers Video Production Equipments Audio Production Studio and Equipments |
| Name of the Research Lab |
| Unnat Bharat Abhiyan Participating Institute – Field Action Project in 5 selected villages in Coimbatore. (Pitchanur, Kaliyapuram, Ambedkar Colony, MGR Colony, Veerapanur) |
| Title of the Project | Funding Agency |
| Skill Labs for VET – Design, Development and Rollout of Advanced learning technologies – Simulations, AR, VR for training vocational courses | Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship |
| Blended Learning for Vocational Courses – Designing effective video and interactive videos for vocational courses | National Media Instructional Institute, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship |
| Skill-eLabs for Secondary school children -Design and Development and Rollout of Simulation based virtual skill labs for secondary school children | Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham |
| Title of the Project | Funding Agency |
| Strengthening Social Policy Initiatives to End Violence Against Children | UNICEF |
Dean,
Schools of Social & Behavioral Sciences (Amritapuri & Coimbatore)
Intake Capacity : 1
Professor,
Department of Cognitive Sciences and Psychology, School of Social & Behavioural Sciences, Amritapuri
Intake Capacity : 7
Chairperson,
Department of Social Sciences, School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Amritapuri
Intake Capacity : 0
Vice Principal, School of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Amritapuri | Vice Principal, School of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Faridabad | Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Amritapuri
Intake Capacity : 0
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Amritapuri
Intake Capacity : 2
Associate Professor,
Economic Development, Economics and Culture, Public Administration and Civil Service, Ethical Systems, Social Research
Intake Capacity : 5
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Amritapuri
Intake Capacity : 3
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Amritapuri
Intake Capacity : 1
Assistant Professor, Department of Cognitive Sciences and Psychology, School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Amritapuri
Intake Capacity : 1
Assistant Professor,
Department of Social Sciences, School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Amritapuri
Intake Capacity : 2
Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Medicine and Public Health Policy, Economics of Healthcare, Educational Research
Intake Capacity : 2
Vice Chairperson, Department of Social Sciences
Intake Capacity : 4
Assistant Professor (Sr. Gd.), Department of Social Sciences
Intake Capacity : 4
Assistant Professor
Intake Capacity : 4
Vice Principal, Chairperson, Department of Social Work, Coimbatore | Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, Coimbatore
Intake Capacity : 3
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Coimbatore.
Intake Capacity : 0
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Coimbatore
Intake Capacity : 1
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore
Intake Capacity – 3
Assistant Professor
Intake Capacity : 1
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Coimbatore
Intake Capacity : 4
Head of Programme, Social Data Science & Policy, School of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Faridabad
Intake Capacity : 3
Assistant Professor,
Policy Research,
Equity & Inclusion in STI,
Innovation & Sustainable Development, School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Amritapuri
Intake Capacity : 3
| Sr. No. | Faculty Member | Research Interests |
| 1 | Dr. Bhavani Rao |
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| 2 | Dr. Kochukrishnan Kurup |
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| 3 | Dr. Sophia |
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| 4 | Dr. Malini Frey |
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| 5 | Dr. Parvathy V |
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| 6 | Dr. Vivek Subramoniam |
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| 7 | Dr. Harikrishnan U | Mental Health, Gender-Based Violence, Child and Adolescence Well-being, Social Work and Technology, Psychosocial Care and Support in Disaster management, School Social Work, Family Therapy, Psychiatric Social Work |
| 8 | Dr. Yamuna NK | Elderly Population, School Social Work, Geriatric Social work, SHG & Community development, Women Employees and welfare programs, Parenting, Social Policy and Legislation, Migration |
| 9 | Dr. Christopher Coley |
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| 10 | Dr. Nimita Pandey | Innovation Systems, Globalisation of Innovation, STI Policy, Gender and Science, Governance of Emerging Technologies, Innovation and Sustainable Development, Tech Entrepreneurship |
| 11 | Dr. Victoria Ustenko | Participatory governance, citizen empowerment, public sector innovation, impact assessment of government policies and programs, development policy, innovation policy, water policy and the Jal Jeevan Mission, self-help groups and collective action. Mixed-methods approach to impact evaluation. Machine learning for textual data analysis. |
| 12 | Dr. P Rangasami | Child Rights and Child protection Migration, Juvenile Justice System, Mental Health of Vulnerable population, Corporate Social Responsibility |
| 13 | Dr. Priya V | Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Health of Women and Tribal populations |
| 14 | Dr. S Kanagaraj | Disability issues, Disaster Management, GIS& Rural development, Social Welfare policy, Sustainable Rural development, Women Empowerment, Youth development, Tribal studies |
| 15 | Dr. Rajeev Ramakrishnan | Child Rights and Child protection (Policy and Innovative approaches). Corporate Social Responsibility and its impact on society. Sustainable development and Tribal/indegenous Communities. Innovations and interventions in social welfare systems. Assessment and analysis of Social Policies. Gender, Sexuality and LGBTQI+ studies. Technological advancement for Environmental Sustainability and Social Development. |
| 16 | Dr. Dipanjan Bhattacharjee | Geriatric Mental Health, Community mental health, Healthcare social work, social work practice with vulnerable groups & communities, social work in industrial sectors & social work practice in racial & ethnic contexts |
| 17 | Dr. Mukil M. V. | Environmental psychology, Behavioral Design, Human Centric Design, Design for Sustainability, Indian Knowledge Systems (Temple Design), Product Design and Development |
Fees mentioned beside are current. The University reserves the right to alter fees at any time without notice.
| Program Fees | ||||
| CAMPUS | TUITION FEES PER YEAR |
TUITION FEES TOTAL |
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| Amritapuri | 30,000 | * | ||
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PhD Office, (Amritapuri/Faridabad),
School of Social and Behavioral science,
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India
ssbs_pgp@am.amrita.edu
Ph.D. Coordinator
( Coimbatore)
Dr. Priya V
Assistant Professor (Sr. Gr)
E Mail ID: v_priya@cb.amrita.edu