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IITB-TISS School of Habitat Studies
The IITB-TISS School for Habitat Studies, a centre for knowledge excellence that is to be jointly administered by the IIT Bombay and TISS, will focus on providing a comprehensive response to the knowledge-related needs of the society in the habitat sector. It will attempt to draw from the fields of habitat studies, economics, environmental science, the social sciences, engineering, architecture, and management. The key agenda of the School will involve creation, dissemination, and application of relevant and useful knowldge about planning, design, development, management, and governance of the habitats. The School will also endeavour to develop professional capacities in the field of Habitat Studies through academic teaching and professional/in-service training that incorporate both social and technical skills. This School will conduct its research and analytical work through its 3 Centres: - Centre for Urban Planning and Governance - Centre for Science, Technology and Society - Centre for Water Policy and Governance Admission to Masters in Habitat Policy and Practice (MHPP) Program, 2010-12 Information Brochure is available as download on right panel |
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School of Management and Labour Studies
The School of Management and Labour Studies has a mission to provide quality human service professionals for a variety of stakeholder groups in the development process. The School has diversified to develop innovative teaching and research programmes that address wider social issues and realities with a special emphasis on the marginalised and vulnerable groups. It offers Master's Degree programmes in Human Resources Management and Labour Relations, Globalisation and Labour, and Social Entrepreneurship; and a Diploma programme in Human Resources Management. It is involved in research and consultancy undertaken through its 4 Centres: - Centre for Human Resources Management and Labour Relations The centre offers M. A. in Human Recourse Management and Labour Studies, which has a strong Social Science base and a pedagogy grounded in field reality. The M.A. in Human Resource Management and Labour Relations offered by School of Management and Labour Studies is designed to develop students into professionally competent and socially sensitive management graduates, fully equipped to take on the challenges of the corporate world. The TISS HRM & LR occupy positions of leadership across a wide spectrum of industries and sectors including IT/ITeS, Banking and Finance, Manufacturing, Retail and Management Consultancy. - Centre for Labour Studies The Masters Degree in Globalisation and Labour at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai is a two year programme offered by the Global Labour University, an offshoot of International Labour Organisation (ILO) Geneva. The programme looks to engage students in the study of various labour related issues and the nuances, consequences and challenges that follow the process of globalisation. The learning process is augmented by regular field visits, class presentations and the submission of term papers. The third semester of the course consist of an internship of six months and in the last semester students are required to work on a dissertation on a topic of their choice. The programme equips one with a much needed understanding of the dynamics of the informal labour sector, with knowledge and potential application skills in myriad avenues. The programme is especially relevant for those who have previously worked with, or are looking to work with, labour unions, cooperatives and other membership-based organisations. - Centre for Social Entrepreneurship The Center for Social Entrepreneurship came into existence after careful thought about the emerging needs of wider society to develop change leaders in the field of social sectors to create enterprises with social purpose. The two-year, full time, Master of Arts in Social Entrepreneurship (MA in SE) aims at training and developing change leaders who contribute to social progress. Students are expected to emerge as social entrepreneurs themselves in collaboration with the state, market and civil society institutions. A distinctive feature of the course curriculum is its inductive pedagogy blending classroom teaching and experiential learning through block fieldwork, assignments finding innovative solutions to social problems individually and through group exercises, in-depth examination of the strengths and weaknesses of social entrepreneurial activities across the world, interacting with successful social entrepreneurs. - Centre for Social and Organisational Leadership Development The Center for Social and Organizational Leadership (C SOL) was established in 2006 at TISS to develop Leadership in businesses, government, not-for-profit organisations and communities. The current environment - characterized by a high velocity of change, scarcity of resources, expectation for superior performance and the need for equity & social justice - demands value-based Leaders for organizational effectiveness and social transformation. Consequently, the mission of the C SOL is four-fold: Develop Leaders and Leadership by Facilitation of self-awareness, personal transformation and enhanced relationships, and by imparting essential knowledge and leadership skills; Undertake cutting-edge inter-disciplinary Research in Leadership and related areas; Consulting with organisations to build Leaders and sustainable Leadership capabilities ; and Teaching Students - the next generation of Leaders - to address leadership challenges in social and organizational contexts - Adecco TISS Labour Market Research Initiative (ATLMRI) The Adecco-TISS Labour Market Research Initiative (ATLMRI) is a research and policy advocacy programme, which came into existence through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Adecco and TISS in September 2006. ATLMRI is associated with the School of Management and Labour Studies, TISS. The programme has an active collaboration with the Adecco Institute, London, which supports an institutional network for the labor market research, consisting of Warwick University, London Business School, Manchester University and TISS. |
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School of Rural Development
The School of Rural Development works towards promoting initiatives for sustainable, eco-friendly and equitable socioeconomic development of rural communities, with a focus on gender and caste justice. Growing out of the Institute's Rural Campus in Tuljapur, it conducts a Bachelor's Degree (Hons.) Programme in Social Work, with a specialisation in Rural Development. It has introduced a Diploma programme in Sustainable Development for Ladakh to promote development initiatives in this remote area of India. |
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School of Social Sciences
The School of Social Sciences has a special focus on strengthening the social sciences teaching and research base, with an inter-disciplinary perspective. The School conducts introduced two M.A. programmes, both of which have contemporary relevance and significance: Development Studies and Education (Elementary). In order to undertake basic and cutting-edge social research to deal with a range of social, economic, cultural and political issues and processes, the School is organised to deal with several thematic areas through its 6 Centres: - Centre for Development Studies - Centre for Human Ecology - Centre for Socio-legal Studies and Human Rights - Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy - Centre for Women's Studies - Centre for Studies in the Sociology of Education The Centre for Studies in Sociology of Education (CSSE), is the new name of the erstwhile Unit for Research in Sociology of Education. The Unit was established in 1970 as a sequel to the pioneering work ?Field Studies in Sociology of Education? carried out for the Education Commission 1964-66. The Centre has faculty members who are involved in research in the following areas and guide students at various levels (masters, M.Phil, Ph.D). o Elementary, non-formal, adult, secondary, higher and health education; o Issues related to the education of scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, minorities and women; o Educational policies, programmes, institutional structures and pedagogical processes; o Subject areas in formal education and indigenous knowledge systems; etc. The Centre was instrumental in developing the collaborative teaching programme M. A. Education (Elementary) with five other organizations and anchors it. The teaching programme started in the year 2006 with the aim of strengthening the discipline and practice of elementary education in the country. The faculty of the Centre have also contributed to formulation of education policy, social policy. They have served as members of committees of and provided consultancy to state, national, bi-lateral and multilateral agencies and the voluntary sector. |
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School of Social Work
The School of Social Work is engaged in social work education, building social work knowledge and praxis through a range of ideological stances as reflected in the curriculum, complex domains of practice, research and field engagements. The core constitutional ethos and values pervade all aspects of learning, knowledge building and interventions. Interwoven with the same are aspects of social justice, rights, development and empowerment of society simultaneously appreciating differences and intersectionalities created through categorical imperatives of caste, class, gender, ethnicity and faith. The mission is thus to create a cadre of professionals who are able to converge the discursive and practical aspects of interventions. The discursive aspects get seen through the divergent perspectival stances of welfare, development, radical, engendered and rights-based, which are meaningfully integrated to translate into informed practice. The practical realms decode ideologies and ethics in arenas of interventions (or fields of practice) understood as health, social pathology, communities (real and metaphorical), social and ethnic conflicts, disability, tribal and indigenous groups, dalits, and differential population groupings (manifesting in terms of life course and gender aware interventions). The vision is to create a critical social work education that encapsulates the welfare- based, radical, feminist and subaltern subjectivities and sensibilities; to meaningfully translate the standpoints into fields of practice and envisaging a just, equitable and egalitarian society with adequate negotiating spaces for all existential beings. Practical renditions of the standpoints and vantage points are manifested in the composition of the School which comprises of Six Centres that focus on particular arenas and fields of practice. It has 6 Centres: - Centre for Community Organisation and Development Practice includes in its range, notions of community, spaces and un negotiated realms therein and issues of conflict, peace and human security. - The Centre for Criminology and Justice focuses on social pathology, social construction of crime and violence and issues of prevention and access to justice. - The Centre for Equity for Women, Children and Families dwells on life course and engendered interventions that eventually envisage an emancipation of the life worlds of all stakeholders in the intervention process. - Centre for Disability Studies and Action promotes the understanding of social construction of disability and envisages rights-based and engendered modalities of action. - Centre for Health and Mental Health situates health within the development and rights discourse to understand various domains of descriptive and analytical epidemiology and social work intervention therein. - Centre for Social Justice and Governance envelops within its fold twin domains of subaltern historiographies i.e. voices of the socially excluded populace and centre-margin hierarchies on the one hand and social policy and management of voluntary organisations as the second. The School anchors Doctoral and M.Phil programme scholars in Social Work working on dimensions and issues pertaining to social work episteme and praxis. The school offers two Masters degree programmes - Social Work and Disability Studies and Action. The MA in Social Work programme comprises of:
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School of Health Systems Studies
The School of Health Systems Studies prepares students for managerial roles in the fields of health and hospital administration and carries out high quality social and policy research on a range of health issues with a view to support evidence-based national health policy and programme planning. The School is also involved in designing need-based health-related interventions and building capacities of health and allied professionals to promote and support research, action, advocacy and policy relevant work on health. It offers Master's programmes in Health Administration, Hospital Administration and Public Health, and a Diploma in Hospital Administration. It has 2 Centres: - Centre for Health and Social Sciences - Centre for Health, Policy, Planning and Management |
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