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CSSP organises a seminar by Birendra Singh

CSSP organises a seminar by Birendra Singh

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Centre for Studies in Science Policy 
Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

Invites you to a Special Lecture on

 

Research Methodologies to Study Frugal Grassroots Innovations

 

by

Birendra Singh

(PhD candidate at International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague)

 

Venue: Room No. 227, 2nd Floor, SSS-1 Building, JNU

Date: Wednesday, 6th February 2019

Time: 3:00 pm

 

Abstract: Frugal and grassroots innovations are relatively new entrants in the development discourse. Various scholarships, including STS, sharing unlike opinions about the development potential of these innovations. However, capturing, measuring and evaluating the impacts of these innovations are big challenge to theorise them. Methodological improvising, observing and analysing them with other development processes in an interconnected manner can be a helpful research strategy. The interactive session (talk) will attempt to underline methodological challenges and possible improvising to study/theorise frugal grassroots innovations in a development context.

About the Speaker: Birendra Singh is currently PhD candidate at International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague. His is also a PhD researcher at Leiden Delft Erasmus- Centre for Frugal Innovation in Africa (CFIA), the Netherlands. His PhD talks about rainwater harvesting efforts/practices in India and Kenya from knowledge interactions and frugality lenses. Recently, he travelled Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge to present his research and completed CERES research school for international development hosted by Utrecht University, T­he Netherlands.

All are welcome to attend the Lecture.

 

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.