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Prof. Shilpaa Anand

Head & Associate Professor,
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Critical Access Studies, Disability Studies, Literary and Cultural Studies, Medical Humanities
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Hyderabad Campus
Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal
Dist.-Medchal-500 078
Telangana, India

Research Projects

Title of the Project

Type of grant and Funding Agency

Amount

Period

PI/Co-PI/Co-investigator

Collaborators

Aesthetics of Embodiment in Non-dominant Tamil Narrative Traditions 

India Foundation for the Arts - Arts Research Grant

4 Lakhs

2021-2024

Co-I

Prof. Hemachandran Karah,Department of HSS, IIT Madras (PI)

Disability in South India: A Cultural History of the Political Discourse

Research Initiation Grant - BITS-Pilani

2 lakhs

2019-2021

PI

 

National Seminar on Rights of Women with Disabilities

National Commission for Women Seminar Grant (competitive)

2.28 lakhs

2022

PI

 

Technology-led

Education

Interventions

for Visually

Impaired

Children

CDRF - BITS-Pilani

20 lakhs

2023-2025

Co-PI

Prof. Dipanjan Chakraborty, 

Department of CSIS, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus (Co-PI)

Equitable Access to Assistive Technologies in India

Royal Academy of Engineering

11 lakhs

2025-2026

Co-I

Prof. Sarbani Banerjee Belur, Department of HSS, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus (PI); Prof. Dipanjan Chakraborty, 

Department of CSIS, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus (Co-I)