| Sr. No. |
Faculty Member |
Research Interests |
| 1 |
Dr. Bhavani Rao |
- Technonogies and education for sustainable development in schools
- Livelihoods based VET
- AI and Ethics
- Social Acceptance testing of new emerging vaccines
|
| 2 |
Dr. Kochukrishnan Kurup |
- Child Rights and Child Protection,
- Child care & well-being ,
- School Social Work -Counselling,
- Education and Development,
- Migration and refugee children ,
- Human Resource Management,
- Corporate Social Responsibility
|
| 3 |
Dr. Sophia |
- Mental health and well-being: Psychological coping
- Protective factors to promote mental health and quality of life (e.g., social support)
- Cross-cultural mental health research
- Neurodiversity-affirming research (e.g., positive aspects of autism)
|
| 4 |
Dr. Malini Frey |
- Promoting values-based mental strength/wellbeing education via digitalization (from students, corporations, to impoverished villages)
- Addressing psychological distress & psychiatric morbidities (children and adults)
- Neuropsychological correlates of mental disorders & distress (e.g., poverty, (children and adults))
- The role of gender in psychological strengths and vulnerabilities (children and adults)
- Response & interventions to disasters & early-life adversity
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| 5 |
Dr. Meltem |
- Cognitive Scinece informed design and development of technology supported (IoT, Social IoT, AI, ML, DL, VR/AR) Learning Environments
- Cognitive Collaboration between human and AI
- Compassion and Empathy informed technologies
- Mind studies informed by ancient scriptures to adress unresolved challenges in education and learning
|
| 6 |
Dr. Parvathy V |
- Health & Wellbeing
- Applications of Strengths Perspective
- Resilience & Alcohol misuse
- Spirituality in social work & Self-development
- Group work-based interventions for preventive interventions
- Health care seeking behaviors in and E-health
|
| 7 |
Dr. Vivek Subramoniam |
- Digital Education,
- Technology-Enhanced Learning,
- Educational Technology,
- Digital Learning Technology Integration
- Spirituality and Social Work
- Indianization in Social Work Practice and Education
- Indigenous Innovation, Technology and Development (IKS)
- Sustainable development Management
|
| 8 |
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 |
| 9 |
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 |
| 10 |
Dr. Christopher Coley |
- Social Policy Evaluation
- Gender & Sustainable Development
- Critical Masculinities
- Vocational Training Strategies
- Applied Ethics & Philosophy
|
| 11 |
Dr. Nimita Pandey |
Innovation Systems, Globalisation of Innovation, STI Policy, Gender and Science, Governance of Emerging Technologies, Innovation and Sustainable Development, Tech Entrepreneurship |
| 12 |
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. |
