Research Promotion

Purpose

As a Jesuit University, St Joseph's emphasises the need for research among its students and faculty members. The research institute encourages the researchers of SJU to publish original research work in Clarivate (SCI/SSCI/AHCI) or in Scopus indexed journals. The following are the guidelines that are aimed at fostering, managing and publicising the research undertaken at SJRI. Besides, the Research Institute recognises and rewards the best research work published in each of the schools of SJU.

Monetary Support:

• To help young faculty to begin their research, seed money grants would be sanctioned (based on the proposal by the faculty after assessment by an expert panel). This is a one-time grant and the faculty is expected to build on it by applying for grants from external funding agencies such as DST, DBT, CSIR, UGC, ICSSR, etc.

• Full-time PhD scholars registered under St Joseph’s University would be paid a fellowship of Rs.12,000/- per month. 

Laboratories and Study Rooms for Research:

Common research labs/study areas would be made available for the PhD scholars of each discipline. Independent laboratory space would be provided to faculty with major projects sanctioned by external funding agencies and for faculty whose research carries significant output.

Reduction in Teaching Workload to Facilitate Research:

• A few selected faculties would be inducted into SJRIC under research–cum–teaching cadre (conditions apply). They would be permitted reduced teaching hours as follows: 12 hrs/week for sciences (6 hrs of theory and 6 hrs of lab courses) and 10 hrs/week for all others. The remaining workload of such faculty would be borne by their PhD scholars (lab courses in sciences; theory/tutorials in others).

• Other faculty who have two or more full-time PhD scholars / major project from an external funding agency would be relieved of 20% of their teaching workload (will have 16 hrs/week in Sciences; 13 hrs/ week for the others). 

Research Facilities: 

• The Central Instrumentation Facility (CIF) would be under the care of SJRI. All equipment would be serviced as required and maintained at working conditions.

• Faculty/PhD Scholars/Research Fellows would be trained in operating the equipment (each PhD Scholar in the sciences should master the use of at least three instruments in the CIF).

• A technical assistant would be available to train faculty/scholars in the use of the instruments.

• New equipment would be procured for CIF, based on the needs of faculty with significant research output. Library resources, journals, e-resources, plagiarism software, etc would be upgraded annually.

Incentives:

SJRIC pays the incentives for the published articles/granted patents and sanctioned consultancy projects on an annual basis.