Director IUCSSRE
K.M. SEETHI is ICSSR Senior Fellow and Director, Inter University Centre for Social Science Research and Extension (IUCSSRE), Mahatma Gandhi University. He also served as Dean of Social Sciences and Professor and Director, School of International Relations and Politics (SIRP), Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam. He also officiated as the Coordinator, K.P.S. Menon Chair for Diplomatic Studies, served as Honorary Director, KN Raj Centre and Director of Research, Mahatma Gandhi University.
Hon. Joint Director
Dr. Abhilash Babu serves as the Director, School of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University. He is also the Coordinator of the UGC-STRIDE Programme in MG University. Earlier Dr. Abhilash was on the faculty of the Central University of Lucknow. He did his masters in Social Welfare & Rural Management from MG University. He also did MA in Political Science. Dr. Abhilash has MPhil in Science Policy, from the Centre for Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and PhD in Science Policy from CSSP, JNU, New Delhi. His research interests include Social theory, Water Governance, Development Studies, Political Ecology & Education
Research Fellow in Gender Studies
Elizabeth Abraham is working as Research Fellow at IUCSSRE, and is currently coordinating the project "Documenting Women's History: Movements, Struggles, and Lives in Kerala". Earlier with IUCSSRE, she has completed the research project "Writing Dalit Lives: Anthology of Women's Voices from Kerala". She has also coordinated several workshops on Feminist Methodology with the Centre. Prior to joining IUCSSRE, Elizabeth was working as researcher with the Human Rights Law Network (New Delhi) and Indian Institute of Dalit Studies (New Delhi). She holds a MA degree in International Relations and Politics from SIRP, Mahatma Gandhi University (Kottayam) and an MPhil Degree in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi). Currently, she is pursuing her Ph.D. from the Advanced Centre for Women Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai). Her areas of interest include Gender, Caste, Social Movements, Social History, and Ethnography.
Programme Coordinator
Project Assistant
Library Assistant
Bidhumol K V is the Library Assistant in the Centre from its inception. She has also served as Library Assistant in the Library of School of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam. She did MLISC and BLISC from M G University.
Research Assistant
Neena NM is currently working as Research Assistant in the project ‘Documenting Women’s History; Movements, Struggles and Lives in Kerala’ at IUCSSRE. She also worked as Research Assistant at the Centre in another project titled ‘Writing Dalit Lives Anthology of Women’s Voice from Kerala. She was one of the Research Coordinators of the project ‘Praxis Intervention and Other Marginalized Communities of Manchadikkari’ carried out by the Centre. She is one of the co-editors of the book ‘Oru Gramam Nooru Ormakal’ published by IUCSSRE. She did Mphil from the School of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam.
Office Attendant
Laisamma is with IUCSSRE from its inception. She has also worked in the School of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University.
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