ISEC internship

Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) is one of the earliest and largest premier inter-disciplinary research institutions working on social science research in India. Established in1972, ISEC has been instrumental in carrying out robust and competent research studies on various issues in social sciences. It has also been providing valuable policy feedback to bring about integrated social, economic and political transformation, with emphasis on equity and justice. Through both macro and micro-level studies, with inter-disciplinary approaches, the Institute's mandate is to generate knowledge and provide information to improve the quality of policy-making and serve as a centre for excellence in research and training in social sciences. The Institute has been accredited with a team of renowned economists, sociologists, political scientists and educationists who are well known for their scholarship. Capacity building among the young researchers is one of the main thrust areas of the Institute.

Objectives:

The core objective of this initiative is to make the young students (post graduate level) in various social science disciplines to understand nuances of and participate in the inter-disciplinary social science research.

This is achieved through:

• Providing a platform for understanding the rigour in the social science disciplines and enhance the understanding towards analyzing and addressing the social problems through on hand training in the ongoing project.

• Facilitate, instruct and orient the students in developing the research questions either for further studies or for independent research activity.

• Interaction with faculty, researchers and PhD scholars of eight different academic centres of ISEC.

• First hand exposure in the arena of research and policy interplay and understand how research and policy complement and/or contradict with each other.

Duration:

Internship demands a full time commitment for two months. However, there will be sufficient flexibility regarding the timing of programmme. The student will be required to assist and discuss with the concerned faculty.

Allowance:

The selected candidates will be paid a monthly stipend of Rs.4,000/- for a period of two months apart from provision of accommodation. Food and other expenses are to be borne by the participants.

Essential qualifications:

Students of humanities/arts/social sciences, in their final year of post graduation with proven academic excellence and aptitude are eligible to apply for the programme.

How to apply:

Filled in application (can be downloaded from here: Application Form  - .pdf, 40kb) accompanied by two recommendation letters issued by the Head of the Department and a senior faculty member from the department should be submitted to

The Registrar, Institute for Social and Economic Change, VKRV Rao Road, Nagarabhavi PO,
Bangalore 560 072.

Last date

There is no limiting date for the application, the students will be taken as and when the vacancy and the preferred time of the student match but for the current year the applications should reach on or before April 19, 2010. The selection criteria will be decided by the faculty or the centre concerned.

For more details see www.isec.ac.in