St. Xavier’s College for Women (Autonomous) aims to serve the community by the
dissemination of knowledge through teaching and the discovery of knowledge through
research. The institution is committed to excellence in research based on the highest national
and international standards, and to actively promote the important role of research in teaching
learning scenario. To systematize research culture among faculty and students, the institution
advocates comprehensive guidelines to encourage significant and meticulous research
endeavours across disciplines.
The institution’s research policy is oriented towards:
- Constituting a Research Advisory Committee spearheaded by the Principal and synchronized by a Research Development Cell with faculty representatives from Arts, Science and Commerce streams of the institution, who are research guides, to monitor and actualize viable research proposals
and projects
- Ensuring and promoting the highest standards of scholarly practice and ethical conduct in research endeavours
- Ensuring quality and ethics in research through routine and systematic monitoring by the research cell
- Organizing Seminars/Symposia/Conferences on recent trends in various fields of research at State/National/International levels to foster the right attitude and orientation in faculty and students towards undertaking quality research
- Encouraging the teachers and students to pursue research for contributing to nation building and regional development
- Extending financial and other auxiliary support such as infrastructural, library and laboratory facilities to faculty and students for fruitful engagement in research pursuits
- Communicating promptly any information on provisions for availing research grants to aspiring research scholars, among faculty and students
- Encouraging participation and presentation of research papers by faculty and students in national/international seminars/conferences
- Promoting publication of research findings in reputed refereed National/International journals for a greater public cause
- Encouraging faculty members to pursue doctoral/post-doctoral degrees and to take up guideship
- Providing financial assistance to the faculty to participate, present and publish research papers in national/international seminars/conferences
- Extending financial aid to departments for organizing seminars/workshops of regional/state/national/international levels
- Facilitating the effective functioning of research collaborations with other institutions/industries, realized through MoUs/Linkages
- Promoting all eligible departments to be recognised as Research centers
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