Widely recognized as a research and teaching department, the Humanities and Social Sciences at BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus, was established in 2004. Since its inception the department, which also hosted the management stream but was later merged into the department of Economics, has long been known for its innovations and excellence in teaching and research. The department is dedicated to recruiting faculty members from newer research areas alongside traditional disciplines. It provides support and autonomy to the individual teachers to develop their areas and introduce new courses, particularly in interdisciplinary areas. The expertise of the faculty members range from Shakespearean studies, literary theory, ecocriticism, film studies, meta-cognitive studies, tourism studies to developmental studies, disaster management, environmental social sciences, maritime studies, qualitative psychology, mental health and professional ethics.
The department aims at enriching the knowledge and awareness of students in various areas of humanistic and socio-scientific studies and enhancing their creative and critical thinking skills thereby enabling them to become well-rounded human beings, committed to the society, and to excel in their professional and personal lives.
Programmes Offered
Research
The strength of the Research Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Goa, is in the diversity of expertise of the faculty members. The faculty members are engaged in cutting edge research that are socially, culturally and politically relevant and contemporary. The publications of the faculty members are evidence for their research.
Ph.D. Topic - Assessing the potential for developing nature-based solutions around Pandanus ecosystem in Goa
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Dr. Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi, Co. Supervisor -
Prof. Saranya G Nair DAC Members - Prof. Reena Cheruvalath and Prof. Harikrishnan N. B.
Ph.D. Topic - Social representations and everyday socio-legal experiences of sexual violence among women survivors in Goa: A critical constructivist grounded theory exploration
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Bidisha Banerjee, Co. Supervisor -
Prof. K.A.Geetha, DAC Members - Dr. Aswini S., Prof. Sailaja Nandigama
Ph.D. Topic - Antecedents and outcomes of artificial intelligence adoption for crisis and issue management: the socio-technical system theory perspective
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Shalini Upadhyay, Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Topic - An inquiry into the effects of regimes of morality on the experience of freedom as an authentic self-expression among queer individuals in India
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Reena Cheruvalath, Co. Supervisor -
Prof. Prabhu Venkataraman DAC Members - Dr. Solana Jose Savio Da Silva and Prof. Sailaja Nandigama
Applications are invited for a Guest faculty position (purely on temporary basis) to teach course/s inTechnical communication from August to December 2025.
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