"Associate Professor and Head, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences has been awarded ‘Data Collection Abroad’ fellowship by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) for undertaking research on ‘Meta-Moral Cognition and Critical Thinking’ at the University of Kyoto, Japan.  The assumption is that critical thinking and logical reasoning help to improve the process of moral decision making. It is a collaborative research by the faculty members from Universities of Waseda and Kyoto, Japan. Under this Scheme, the ICSSR provides financial assistance to Indian Social Science Scholars who intend to visit abroad for the purposes of Data Collection or consulting Archival Material in connection with their research work."