English Language Teachers Association of India, Editor
Common Wealth.
AIMS International, Journal of Management
TESOL
IATEFL
Literary Voice
International Society for Educational Leadership (ISEL)
Arts and Humanities from BIOINFO, Associate Editor
ELT Research Journal
Journal of Education from JSTF (Co-editor)
The technical committee member and reviewer of ICETC 2024 at held at University of Porto, Porto, Portugal during September 18-20, 2024
The technical committeemember and reviewer at 6th International Conference on Research in Education, Teaching and Learning 17 - 19 February 2023 Barcelona, Spain. which likely to be Indexed by Ei Compendex, Scopus, etc.
The technical committeemember and reviewer at 2022 14th International Conference on Education Technology and Computers (ICETC 2022, icetc.org), which has been scheduled to be held at the University of Barcelona, Spain during October 28-30, 2022. Indexed by Ei Compendex, Scopus, etc.
The technical committee member CSTE 2022 (http://cste.net/), The 4th International Conference on Computer Science and Technologies in Education (CSTE 2022) will be held online during May 6-8, 2022
The technical committeemember CSTE 2022 (http://cste.net/), The 5th International Conference on Computer Science and Technologies in Education (CSTE 2022) will be held online during 28-30 May 2021
Faculty In-Charge of Teaching Learning Centre from 1 September 2020 to 31 October 2021
Member of Dept Academic Committee (DAC ) since 2020 onwards
Nucleus Member, Alumni Relation Unit from 1 March 2019 to 31 August 2020.
Editor of BITS ECHO from March 2019 to October 2020 and drafted the Editorial Policy of the same for smooth collection, drafting, editing, formatting and authenticity of the contents.
Editor of Strategic Report to COVID-19, BITS Pialni, Pilani Campus, published online on 31 May 2019
Participated in Study India Program for Hiroshima University students (25 Feb – 7 March, 2019)
BITSAT duty in Ahmadabad in 2018 and in Pilani 2019
Member, Departmental Level Shortlisting Committee (DLSC) for faculty recruitment (from March 2013)
Member of Library Committee in 2018-19
Member of Senate since 2013
Member of Doctoral Research Committee 2016-2018
Member, Doctoral Advisory Committee
Examiner, Ph.D qualifying exam and Ph.D Viva-voce
Acted as Practice School Instructor at Jaipur and managed three centres : JDA, KEC and FRI with 41 students during Summer 2017
Member – Departmental Review Process for faculty recruitment
Faculty in Charge of Departmental Seminar/ Colloquium 2016-17, 17-18
As ACC MEMBER, I organized an event Coffee with Profs 2017 which was well received by both students and faculty.
Organized Deepawali Milan and Holi Milan get together for the dept for being the faculty in charge of Recreation Activities.
Coordinated with a team of faculty members, a Round Table Conference on Role of the Humanities and the Liberal Arts in Technical Education, 17 October 2011. The discussion was a part of the ongoing discussion on strengthening Humanities and Liberal Arts Departments at BITS Campuses.
Headed the Department of Languages during 2010 - 2012.
Editor of Semester Magazine, BITSCAN since 2008
Acted as DAC (Doctoral Advisory Committee) for 3 Research Scholars
Member of Disciplinary Committee of the institute for the academic year 2010-2011
Acted as an expert for the selection of the Aditya Birla Scholarship 11 August 2010
Editorial Board Member , CURIE, a quarterly journal for 2008-2009.
On the Editorial Board of BITSCAN, a Semester Magazine during 2008-2009.
Acted on several occasions as External Examiner for the Viva-Voce Examination of M.Phil students in the Department of English, CDLU, Sirsa during the session 2007-08.
Non- resident warden of Meera bhavan for 5 years.
Several times acted as subject expert for recruitment of English teachers in BET schools.
Nominated as the library committee member in 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2009.
Resource person for Intensive Teaching Workshop for eight years from 2000-2008.
Coordinator for Skill development programme during 2005-6 and 2006-7.
Coordinator for Communicative English Programme in both the semesters from 2002 to 2009.
Acted as an expert on the Ph. D. Qualifying panel.
Has been paper setter for Kota Vardman Open University, Sanskrit University, Jaipur, Choudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa
Spoken English Programmes for Birla Institutions Community Centre, Pilani (KaLA) run from August 2006 to Nov. 2006 and second batch from 30-01-2007 to 03-04-2007.
Acted as coordinator of Communication and Personality Development Programme May- June 2005
Acted as a Resource Person for Speech Training Workshop at BITS in 1994
Awards and Honours
Dr. Pushp Lata received the Best Paper Award for the paper presented on “Enhancing Employability Prospects of College Students from Rural Background: Problems and Opportunities” at International Conference on Trends and Innovations in Language Teaching held at Sathyabama University, Chennai in collaboration with RELO and IEEE during 14 -15 November 2014.
Dr. Pushp Lata has also been awarded with Shiksha Ratan Award by India International Friendship Society for meritorious Services and remarkable performance. 27 Academicians across the country were felicitated with this award for their services and out of 27, there were nine women achievers. The ceremony was held at Speaker Hall, Constitution Club on 26 May 2011. The awards were given away by the Honourable Governor of Arunachal Pradesh General J.J.Singh and ex Governor of Tamil Nadu Mr. Bhisham Narayan Singh and ex Director CBI, Mr. Jogindra Singh.