Policies for Research and Innovation: Proceedings of NERC 2022 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9819756804 ISBN 13: 9789819756803

Publisher: Springer, 2024

Synopsis

The book aims to incorporate key findings pertaining to Northeastern India. The papers selected will highlight policies that are critical for fostering research and innovation in critical areas of scientific, social sciences, humanities and associated research paradigms relevant for the North-east.

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About the Author

Dr. Sukanya Sharma

Prof. Sukanya Sharma teaches Archaeology in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of IIT Guwahati. She has written two books titled Celts, Flakes and Bifaces: The Garo Hills Story and Source Book of Archaeology of the Himalayan region: Arunachal Pradesh. Policy making concerning Heritage has been an area of her research and she has journal and popular publications on the topic. She also teaches courses in policy making besides heritage management etc. 

Dr.  Ramagopal V. S. Uppaluri

Prof. Ramagopal Uppaluri holds B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam; M.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) from IIT Kanpur and Ph.D. (Process Integration) from the University of Manchester, England. After a brief tenure of postdoctoral fellowship at Robert Gordon University, Scotland, he joined IIT Guwahati and eventually became the youngest Professor and Professor (Higher Academic Grade) of IIT Guwahati.  Till date, Prof. Uppaluri guided 15 Ph.D. students at IIT Guwahati. Presently, he supervises 20 Ph.D. students in diverse fields of rural food processing, polymer science and technology, solar energy applications, machine learning, bio-fertilizers, food product design and development etc. He published 116 international journal publications in diversified areas of chemical engineering and science. He has been awarded/filed 6 Indian patents in the field of enhanced oil recovery, noble metal composite membrane fabrication and nano-clustered palladium catalyst fabrication.  He also completed several funded projects from DBT, CSIR, DST, DRDL, OIL and IOCL. His extra-curricular interests are in the field of Vedanta and Science and Consciousness Studies.

Dr. Vipul Dutta

Dr Vipul Dutta is Assistant Professor, department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati. He combines research and teaching interests in Indian Military, Diplomaticand Defence Studies. He is the author of the book, Making Officers out of Gentlemen: Military Institution-Building in India (2021). He writes extensively on historical and economic aspects of public policies and institutions. 

Dr. Abhishek Kashyap

Dr. Abhishek Kashyap is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati. His research areas include social epistemology, confirmation theory, and the history of gravitation theories. He teaches courses on philosophy of science, epistemology, and metaphysics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9819756804
• ISBN 13: 9789819756803
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 129
• Editor: Sharma Sukanya, Uppaluri Ramgopal V. S., Dutta Vipul, Kashyap Abhishek