Research and Development Cell

About Us

Contact Email-Id : research.committee@asutoshcollege.in

Aims and Objectives

1. The research policy of the college aims to create and support a research culture among its teachers and students for enriching and enhancing the professional competence of the faculty members and promoting scientific temper research aptitude in students.

2. The policy also aims at ensuring that the research activities of the college conform to all applicable rules and regulations as well as to the established standards and norms relating to the safe and ethical conduct of research.

Encouraging Research

The Research and Development Cell encourages the faculty members to initiate extramural research activities using the college infrastructure as well as of the collaborating institute. The committee aims to facilitate speedy institutional clearance.
This policy shall apply to all the researchers of the college and for this policy 'researchers' are defined to include: all members of the permanent staff, who are active in teaching, research, administration and providing of any form of support to the core functions of the college. This will also include all students registered with the college.
As two departments are already running university-affiliated PhD programs, the authority inspires other faculty members to take up PhD programs as well.

Innovative Research Ecosystem

In case of intramural research, the institute research policy has created provision for applying for seed grants (institute funded research). The facility is available to faculty members who are willing to set up laboratories and do a pilot survey.

Ethical and safety standards

Science departments that require animal house facilities and clearance from the animal ethical committee during submitting research projects will be duly supported with essential data and approval as and when required.

The institute is in the process of developing appropriate biosafety atmosphere (uptoBSL 2) for hassle- free conducting of experiments with micro-organisms, heavy metals, etc. All researchers are committed to complying with biosafety measures during the time of conducting experiments.

Focus area

This policy shall apply to all research and research related activities of the college including:

  • Research activities including basic, strategic and applied research undertaken either for fulfilling the requirements of academic degrees or for solving problems;
  • Scholarly activities intended to expand knowledge boundaries through analysis, synthesis and interpretation of ideas;
  • Knowledge compilation and communication initiatives for keeping abreast of academic developments in any knowledge domain such as the writing of textbooks, chapters of textbooks, monographs, developing/updating curriculum, etc.
  • Creative activities involving the generation of new ideas, innovations, hypotheses, images, performances or artefacts, including design in any field of knowledge leading to the development of new knowledge, understanding or expertise;
  • Research projects of students undertaken as part of the curriculum or for enriching it;
  • Publication, presentation and communication of the research outcomes and related activities.

Collaborative Multidisciplinary Research

Collaborative research is crucial space for facilitating mutual knowledge transfer and expertise sharing. The College promotes inter-departmental collaboration as well as collaborative activities with various national and international research institutes. The college is in the process of signing MoUs with various reputed universities and research institutions for the said purpose.

Role and Functions of the Research and Development Cell

The Research and Development Cell of the college shall be responsible for implementing this research policy of the College by working closely with the college management. The roles and functions of the Research and Development Cell will be as follows:

  • Establish specific research units / centres;
  • Organise workshops/ training programmes / sensitization programmes by the institution to promote a research culture on campus;
  • Approach national and international organizations such as UGC, ICSSR, ICHR, ICPR, DST, DBT, UNESCO, UNICEF etc. to fund major and minor research projects undertaken by the faculty/ students;
  • Invite industry to use the research facilities of the college and sponsor research projects;
  • Develop and implement an official Code of Ethics to check malpractices and plagiarism in research;
  • Facilitate inter-departmental / inter-disciplinary research projects;
  • Promote curriculum-oriented research projects;
  • For intramural research, the Committee will decide specific research themes every year and will invite research proposals from the members of the teaching staff. The committee will receive proposals and will evaluate the proposals through external experts of relevant subjects and will submit, to the college authority, recommendation for funding.
  • Create an incentive policy for the faculty who receives state, national and international recognition for research contributions as well as research awards and recognition from reputed professional bodies;
  • Encourage researchers to publish research articles in reputed journals;
  • Create and maintain a database of research work and research projects undertaken by the faculty and students as well as collect data by metrics such as Citation Index, Impact Factor, h-index, SNIP, SJR, etc. for time-to-time submission in various funding and accreditation agencies;
  • Promote consultancy services to industries / Government / Non-Government organizations/ community;
  • Set clear guidelines for Grant of Research related leave.