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hyderabad Humanities and Social Sciences

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

shilpaa.anand@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in

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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)

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