Women's Studies & Research Centre
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WSRC, sponsored by the University Grants Commission has been established under X Five Year Plan at Banasthali Vidyapith in July 2005. Teaching, Training, Research and Extension/ Out Reach activities are being undertaken under the Centre. After completion of its assigned tasks successfully during X plan period, the centre had been upgraded and entered the second phase during XI plan period. Since its inception it has been dazzling like a shining star in the academic horizon, illuminating the society with its spreading wings to eradicate all the hinos for women's development by empowering them in almost all the levels of lives. The Women's Studies & Research Centre' believes that women's study is not merely a subject to be studied in the class room but to create a women friendly environment in the society where every woman irrespective of her place of birth, and economic status, will get due opportunity to realize her identity. In this regard, the centre is designed to act as a catalyst for the same through teaching research, field action, extension works, documentation & publication, advocacy, net working, coordinating with other agencies to achieving its objectives. The major thrust area of research undertaken by the center so far are reproductive health, gender budgeting, child marriage, women's sports etc. Centre has been playing its incessant effort to inculcate gender's perspective in almost all activities undertaken by Banasthali University . |
Women Studies Centre
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Name
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Designation
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Qualification |
Specialization/Research Interest |
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1. |
Dr. Manju Singh |
Coordinator |
M.A., M.Phil, Ph.D. |
Women Studies, Research Methods, Theoretical Sociology |
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2. |
Mr. Anil Kumar Sharma |
Technical Assistant |
M.A., PGDCA |
Computer Hardware |
| 3. | Mr. Harishanker Sharma Jangid |
Library Assistant |
B.A., B.Ed., M.Lib. |
Library Management |
Teaching
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Saying in nutshell, under the teaching programme. WSRC centre aims at to create awareness and to make the students familiar with women's issues and women's rights and to enable them critically analyze the Women's issues from right perspectives. Ongoing Courses :
It is very praise worthy to mention that in the current academic year, the WSRC centre has commenced P.G. Diploma course on 'Women & Human Rights'. This course intends to empower women by helping them to make women's human-rights a reality. And to make them self reliant in order to right against all type of social discriminations against them. PROPOSED COURSES Master in Social Work The proposal for the Master in social works (MSW) two years programme has been passed in the current year by the University. Its C been finalized by the centre. Thus the full fledged MSW programme is being introduced for the students in July 2010. This programme aims to mitigate the emerging needs of all sections of society with particular emphasis on vulnerable section. M.Phil. and Ph.D. Programme : For the first time the M.Phil. and Ph.D. Programme in Women's Studies have been proposed for the consideration of academic council.
ONLINE COURSES 1. P.G. Diploma course on Women's Studies: Under this current academic year, one year online diploma course on Women's Studies has been proposed by WSRC for consideration of Board of Studies. For this course structures and its contents are being prepared after the due consultation with the subject experts. 2. Certificate course on 'Women and Health' and 'Women and Media' have also been proposed to be initiated in the next academic session. The teaching courses under WSRC aim at providing students a broader academic framework and broad based community for scholarly enquiry focusing on woman's issues from holistic perspectives. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES Purely academic as well as action research are being encouraged by the WSRC, Banasthali University .It also welcomes interdisciplinary research using a range of methodologies. In this direction, WSRC centre encourages students for Ph.D. programme along with execution of various projects. RESEARCH PROJECTS On-going Research Projects (under XI Plan)
SOME BROAD AREAS IDENTIFIED FOR FUTURE PROJECTS:
ACTIVITIES AT A GLANCE
LECTURE SERIES : From time to time, WSRC has organized lecture series. The eminent academicians like Prof. Mohini Anjum, Prof. Rajiv Gupta, Prof. Pam Rajput, Prof. Usha Thakkar, Dr. Y.L.Thekre have been invited from time to time by the centre to Banasthali University who have delivered their memorable thought provoking lectures before the audiences. STUDENT'S ACTIVITIES : International Women's day' on 8th March, 2009 On this occasion, WSRC has organized many competitions for the students like debate on 'women's reservation', extempore on various women's issues, slogan writing competition, theme based poster making etc. Gandhi 'Jayanti' On the eve of Gandhi Jayanti on 2nd October, 2009, WSRC, also arranged the eloquence for students of Banasthali on the theme, entitled "Relevance of Gandhi Today". EXTENSION ACTIVITIES Training programme: From time to time the WSRC has conducted various training programmes for different target groups which are as follows. 1. Legal Awareness for students and the faculty 2. Entrepreneur skill development for poor & needy women 3. Capacity building for grass root women's leaders 4. Stress management for teachers and students 5. Human Right Awareness COMMUNITY ACTION
ADVOCACY
COUNSELING
MAGAZINE: Magazine 'Srijan .... A new Vision' - Volume-IV FACILITIES WSRC Library, Banasthali University The WSRC library is a specialized resource center for a comprehensive collection of published and unpublished materials helpful for academic scholars, researchers, students, policy makers and administrators and activists. The library through its collection aims to provide an over all perspective regarding the situational analysis, current issues, development policies, programmes and schemes relating to women and strives to fill in information gaps in these areas. Books, journals and newsletters, articles, bibliographies, directories, papers and monographs, publications of international, regional and local organizations, government policies/ reports/ schemes, seminars/ workshops/ conference papers and reports, audiovisual cassettes, CDs, poster on women's issues are available in the WSRC library. DOCUMENTATION On line Documentation : On line documentation of news paper clipping, 'list of library books', reports, news letters are also presently under process. Audio Documentation : With the assistance from Community Radio, the WSRC has been successful in documenting Apaji's collections of folk songs in regional dialects covering various women's issues like Purdah Pratha, child marriage, few motivational songs on women's empowerment & women's education and few others songs envisaging the contributions of rural women in the field of national reconstruction and remaining others songs highlighting women's achievements in various fields and there by institutionalizing them as role models for others. WSRC has systematically documented articles, news paper cutting in different folders in the name of 'Women and Reproductive Health', 'Women in Sports', 'Cultural Ideology of Gender', 'Women and N.G.O', 'Women and Change', 'Women and Religion', 'Social problems relating to women'. Women and Law, Women and Demography, 'Women and Environment', 'Women and Profession', 'Women and Politics', 'Women and Entrepreneurship, - Women in Cooperatives' Women and Higher Education, Women and Policy, Women and Movement, Women Empowerment etc. PARTNERSHIP WSRC, Banasthali has made partnership with 'The Institutes for Desert Research' Ben Gurion University, Israel, with 'Sweet Brail College' Virginia, U.S.A. for research in women's studies and for the scholar exchange programme. Clustering : The WSRC has also made clustering with various other departments like dept. of Computer Science & mathematics, Dept. of Pol. Science, History, textile, English, Home Science, Management, Krishi Vigyan Kendra within the Universities itself. Apart from the intrg, teh centre have been working clustering and net working with other universities< National and International research institutes, Government Institutions & functionaries, NGOs with similar short of academic and research interests. Besides this the centre has been inherently working by keeping link with the following international institutions. INTERNATIONAL LINK:
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