Vivekananda Mission Mahavidyalaya
বিবেকানন্দ মিশন মহাবিদ্যালয়

Best Practices

Promotion of research activities among the teaching faculty

The college takes upon itself the responsibility to encourage the teachers, both young and experienced, to pursue research interests as the college has significant number of PhD faculties. So for pursuing their research the college provides them research ambience, necessary library, laboratory facilities etc. Teachers are also encouraged to participate in different national and international seminars, conferences and to apply for different research projects, both major and minor from different funding agencies, to publish articles in reputed national/international journals and arrange seminars and conferences, to make associations with research communities thereby widening the scope of their research work and collaboration. The IQAC of the college has fixed publication targets for the faculty to achieve in the next three years. Both in publications in UGC CARE listed journals and also publications in edited volumes/books/conference proceedings (National and International) the IQAC has set targets for the faculty to achieve. This setting of targets is surely very ambitious in nature but the college IQAC feels that along with the need to garner API points for CAS promotion, this target setting will spur the teachers into serious research activity.

The following are the major practices related to the promotion of research activities in the college:

1. Regular meeting of the Research Cell to monitor the research activities done by college faculty.
2. Encouraging the teachers to apply for different research projects, both Major and Minor from reputed national funding agencies like UGC, DBT, DSTSERB etc. through the college Research Cell and in collaboration with university and nearby research institutes.
3. Encouraging the faculty members to publish their research articles in journals of national and international repute (UGC CARE listed) and books from reputed publication houses.
4. Upgrading the laboratories and libraries.
5. Encouraging the teachers to attend different seminars / workshops / Refresher Courses to enrich their knowledge.
6. Organizing seminars and workshops relating to modern trends of multidisciplinary research.
7. Reimbursing the registration fees of teachers attending and presenting papers in national/international seminars (Maximum amount Rs. 500/- per year).

We are in the early stages of this promotional process and the process till now has not yielded tangible results. We are, however, hopeful that in a year or two we will have results to show for our efforts. Research, surely, as we all know is not an overnight activity and it takes time for the results to arrive. Total number of research articles published in UGC CARE listed journals during 2019-20 stands at 2. Other than this, there are 3 prestigious publications in national and international journals and 2 in edited volumes. As far as paper-presentations in seminars are concerned, there are 9 paper-presentations in national and international seminars. The total combined output surely is not much to write about but we are confident that the steps we have taken will ensure a far better yield in the coming years.