MPhil PhD Admissions

Sr. No.

M.Phil. Programme

Number of Seats

1

M.Phil. in Psychiatric Social Work

7

Sr. No.

Ph.D. Thematice Areas

Number of Seats

Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library

Ph.D. in Library and Information Science

1

Digital Libraries, Information services, Cataloguing and metadata, Classification and ontology, Data mining and semantic web, Scientometrics, Health informatics, Information discovery, Information retrieval, Assistive technologies, Green libraries, etc.

5

School of Health Systems Studies

Ph.D. in Health Services Management

1

Nutritional epidemiology, Health and welling of tribal and other marginalised communities

1

2

Hospital and health services adminstration with a focus on quality management, patient safety and supply chain management

1

3

Global Public Health Emergencies (GPHE); Climate Change Effect on Human Health (CCEHH)

3

4

Migration, urbanisation and health; Child and adolescent health; Aging and health; Adult health

4

5

Digital health; Urban health

2

6

Role of gender and sexuality in understanding health inequities across life course

1

Ph.D. in Public Health

1

Public health from epidemiological perspective with focus on communicable and non-communicable diseases; Health systems management with focus on health care delivery, health financing, health inequity and comparative health systems

2

2

Sociology of medical practice/Medical anthropology; Social epidemiology approach to public health problems

2

3

Non-communicable disease social epidemiology; Health management information systems; Health programmes evaluation; Environmental health

1

4

Availability, access and utilisation of health services (in rural and urban areas), Health status of marginalised sections, Dalit and tribal health

3

School of Management and Labour Studies

Ph.D. in Management and Labour Studies

1

HRM in Service sector

1

2

Development economics and microfinance

corporate social responsibility

2

3

Social and women entrepreneurship

2

4

Diversity, Equity and inclusion, Human rights

1

5

Inclusive value chains, Agriculture and livelihoods

2

6

Labour studies, Gender studies, sustainability

1

7

Organisational change, Learning organisation, Performance management

2

School of Research Methodology

Ph.D. in Social Sciences

1

Research methodology, Higher education,

1

2

Population sciences, Migration, Caste related issue, development

4

School of Law and Justice

Ph.D. in Social Sciences

1

Access to justice, Criminal law, Human rights & Criminal justice, Criminology & correctional administration and victimology

4

CSSEIP (Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policies)

Ph.D. in Inclusive Development and Social Justice

1

Socio-cultural aspects and historiography of the excluded communities. Social exclusion, discrimination, violence and politics of development. Inclusive policies, structures and governance

4

School of Habitat Studies

Ph.D. in Habitat Studies

1

Climate Change

1

2

Water policy and governance

2

3

Public participation, Urban informality, Urban local governance

1

4

Urban and gender, urban and the local governance, urban and the SDG

2

School of Development Studies

Ph.D. in Development Studies

1

Public finance, Public choice, Poverty and inequality, Financial inclusion, Regional development

2

2

Public policy and governance, Elections, Political processes and democracy, State and democracy in a comparative context, Migrants, mobility and citizenship, Violence, Insurgency and conflict resolution, Interpreting justice and welfare, Civil society and social movements, Global governance and international development

1

3

Gender and society, Gender and development,

Gender, culture and human rights, Violence against women, Gender and education, Feminist studies and activism, Sexuality, sexual violence and sexual rights, Women studies, Feminist peace and justice studies, Women's leadership

3

4

Rural development, Non-farm employment, Traditional enterprises, Commodity markets,

Migration, labor and economy

2

5

Population ageing, Elderly issues, Issues related to intergenerational bond, Population and development

2

Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies

Ph.D. in Women's Studies

1

Feminist disability studies, Critical disability theory, Gender and mental health

1

2

Gender and technology, Feminist philosophy of science, Queer studies, Sexuality studies

2

3

Caste, Class and gender, Social movements and citizenship, Dalit feminism

1

4

Caste gender and violence, Indigenous knowledge and belief systems, Folk feminism and ethnic studies

1

School of Media and Cultural Studies

Ph.D. in Media and Cultural Studies

1

Gender and media, Feminist academia and activism, Politics of public spaces, Friendship, Sexualities, Digital publics, Middle classes, Feminist pedagogies, Neoliberalism.

2

School of Social Work

Ph.D. in Social Work

1

Migration, Social policy, Middle class

2

2

Child rights, Child protection (Child labour, Missing children, Street living children, Child in conflict with law, Child in institutional care), and the Juvenile justice system

1

3

Child marriages, Child labour, Rural and urban families, Occupational health, Mining, Informal labour, Labour unions, Rural artisans, Social entrepreneurship, Business and human rights, Corporate social responsibility, NGO governance

1

4

Child and youth rights, (Street children, Homeless girls, Child sexual abuse, Aftercare), Probation, Alcohol, Drugs, Substance abuse, Addictions, Work with victims and rights of victims, Crime prevention, Criminal justice social work, Rehabilitation and corrections, Social work education, NGO management, Use of creative arts in social work ( DMT) Restorative justice

2

5

Social work education, Social and political theory and praxis, Social work perspectives and history etc., Elderly issues

2

6

Children, Family, Woman, Disability, Inclusive education

2

7

Mental health, Attachment in children of divorcing parents, Spirituality disability

2

8

Livelihood and social innovations, Gender

1

9

Gender, Sexuality, Violence against women (specifically Domestic violence, Child sexual abuse, Inter-generational caste based prostitution and trafficking, Sexual harressment at work-place) Masculinities studies, LGBTQI and violence, Feminist social work, Women and law

2

10

Disability studies, Rehabilitation, Health, Inclusive education, Universal design, Accessibility, NEP, Governance, Policy, Buddhist and peace studies, Vipassana

1

11

Adult learning, Training, Education, Issues of youth, Prevention of youth crime, Gerontology, Lifeskills, Participatory methodology, Educational technology, Youth leadership, Soft skills, Youth policy and youth schemes

3

12

Lifelong learning - health, elderly

1

School of Education

Ph.D. in Education

1

Concerns of school education, Analysis of textboos, Educational programmes and policies

3

Centre for Excellence in Teacher Education (CETE)

Ph.D. in Education

1

Education, Culture and society, Work and education, Professional development

4

2

Comparative study of teacher education in the global South, Inclusive pedagogies in STEM,

Philosophy and practice of different models of ITE

2

3

Innovations during the COVID 19 pandemic and its impact on student learning and teacher capacity building models in the country

1

4

Mathematics education, Multilingualism and math learning, Culture and cognition,

Curriculum studies and critical understanding

2

5

Broad area of Science Education:

- Visuo-spatial thinking in science education

- Nature of science

2

6

Peace education and cultural literacies,

Literature studies and humanities education

1

School of Human Ecology

Ph.D. in Applied Psychology

1

Couple and family relationships ((heterosexual and queer) and counseling and psychotherapy, Gender, sexuality and counseling and psychotherapy, Young people's mental health, Counseling and interventions

3

Jamsetji Tata School of Disaster Studies

Ph.D. in Disaster Studies

1

Disaster risk, Informal settlements and well-being.

2

Hyderabad Off Campus

Azim Premji School of Education

Ph.D. in Education

1

Higher education

2

2

Inclusive and special education, Educational inequalities among marginalised groups; Socio-emotional well-being and education in schools, Counselling in schools, Student mental health, Bullying and by-stander behaviour in schools

1

Ph.D. in Social Sciences

1

Institutions for natual resource management, River restoration governance, Natural resource based livelihoods

1

2

Rural livelihoods, Local self governance

1

3

Water resources governance and management, Socio-ecological research, Climate change (vulnerability, adaptation, and risk and resilience)

1

Centre for Gender Studies

Ph.D. in Women’s Studies

1

Gender concerns and issues, Social change, Social entrepreneurship, Rural development Programs, Rural communities, Organisational behaviour

5

2

Gender and health, Intimate partner violence, Health communication, Social psychology and gender, Mental health and gender

3

Guwahati Off Campus

Ph.D. in Social Sciences

1