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The Ph.D. programme at Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth (CVV) encourages scholars to pursue interdisciplinary research that integrates Indic wisdom with contemporary knowledge systems. As a ‘de novo’ institution, the programme aims to create original and cutting-edge research that highlights the Indic wisdom traditions and their applications in the present context. Furthermore, CVV also encourages the scholar to pursue any other disciplinary or interdisciplinary research that investigates a national or human concern. The Ph.D. programme complies with the regulatory guidelines issued by UGC.

Eligibility Criteria

A Master's degree or a professional degree declared equivalent to a Master’s degree by a corresponding statutory regulatory body, with at least 55% marks in aggregate or its equivalent grade in the UGC 7-point scale (or an equivalent grade in a point scale wherever a grading system is followed).

Research Supervisors and Areas

School of Ethics, Governance, Culture and Social Systems  (EGCS)

Name of the Faculty

Designation & School

Research Areas

Dr. Pramod Dinakar

Assistant Professor, School of EGCS

Education

Dr. Bindu M. P.

Assistant Professor, School of EGCS

Education

School of Linguistics and Literary Studies

Name of the Faculty

Designation & School

Research Areas

Dr. L. Sampath Kumar

(Sanskrit Faculty)

Assistant

Professor,

School of LLS

Ramayana Studies,

Vedic Literature,

Alankara Shastra

 

Dr. Anil Narayanan N.

(Sanskrit Faculty)

Assistant Professor, School of LLS 

Classical Sanskrit Literature, Poetics, Textual Criticism, History of Indian Mathematics.

Dr. Pavankumar Satuluri (Sanskrit Faculty)

Assistant Professor, School of LLS

Pāṇinian Grammar, Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing and  Philosophy of Language

Dr. M. Sudarshan Chiplunkar

(Sanskrit Faculty)

Assistant Professor, School of LLS

Sahitya Shastra

Sanskrit Literature

Manuscriptology

Dr. Sandhya Shankar

(English Faculty)

Assistant Professor, School of LLS

Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition,

Language Pedagogy

Dr. Vishaka Venkat

(English Faculty)

Assistant Professor, School of LLS

Humour, Children’s Literature, Aesthetics, Popular Culture, Temples

Dr. Hari M. G. 

(English Faculty)

Assistant Professor, School of LLS

Mysticism, Literary Theory, Indian Literature, Film Studies

Dr. Rajnish Kumar Mishra

(Hindi Faculty)

Assistant Professor, School of LLS

Hindi Media, Journalism, 

Hindi literature  

School of Philosophy Psychology & Scientific Heritage (PPSH)

Name of the Faculty

Designation & School

Research Areas

Dr. Johnson Alex

Professor, School of PPSH

Clinical Psychology,

Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, 

Learning Disabilities, Sleep, and Stress & Resilience 

Dr. Satheesh Varma M.

Assistant Professor, School of PPSH

Industrial and Organizational Psychology,

Marketing Psychology,

Advertisement Psychology, Indian Psychology, Transpersonal Psychology, Eco-Psychology, Cultural Psychology

Dr. Archana Chandran

Assistant Professor, School of PPSH

Social Psychology,

Industrial and Organisational Psychology,

Health Psychology, Counselling Psychology

Dr. Susan Varghese

Assistant Professor, 

School of PPSH

Organisational Behaviour,

Positive Psychology and

Social Psychology

School of Kalayoga

Name of the Faculty

Designation & School

Research Areas

 Dr. Atul Kamble

 

 Assistant Professor–Tabla, School of Kalayoga

 Music-related

 Dr. P. N. Prabhavathy

 

 Assistant Professor–Carnatic Vocal, School of Kalayoga

 Music-related

 Dr. Tara Kannan

 

 Assistant Professor–Carnatic Vocal, School of Kalayoga

 Music-related

CVV-IST

Name of the Faculty

Designation & School

Research Areas

 Dr. Raisun Mathew

 

 Assistant Professor–English

 Identity Studies, Liminality and Transition, Gender Studies, Diaspora Studies

School of Contemporary Knowledge Systems (CKS)

Name of the Faculty

Designation & School

Research Areas


Dr. Vinod R. R.



Assistant Professor, School of CKS

Banking and Financial Markets

Dr. Manjula R. Iyer

Associate Professor, School of CKS

Finance, Corporate Social responsibility, Corporate Governance, Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship and Innovative Business Practices

Dr. Bindusree A. R.

Assistant Professor, School of CKS

Applied Mathematics and its Application in Management, Operations Management, Business Analytics

Dr. Ambily A. S.




Associate Professor, School of CKS

Finance, HRM, Organisational Behaviour, Marketing, Rural Studies


Dr. Renju Chandran



Assistant Professor, School of CKS

HRM. Service Marketing, General Insurance

Dr. Abha Mohan

Assistant Professor, School of CKS

Finance, International Finance,

Financial Markets

Dr. Rakhy K. S.

Assistant Professor, School of CKS

Organizational Behaviour, Occupational Psychology, Psychosocial Work Environment, Job Burnout, Emotional and Mental Health at Workplace, Public Health

Categories
Full-time

Full-time Research Scholars are those who will normally be full-time residents of the University campus for their research or report to the campus daily.

Sponsored

The applicant in this category is sponsored by a recognised R&D organisation, academic institution, government organisation or industry for doing research in the University full-time. The University does not provide any assistantship/fellowship to such a candidate.

Quality Improvement Programme (Indian/International)

This category refers to a student selected under the Quality Improvement Programme (QIP) of the AICTE/UGC or any other Indian/international organisation. The student works full-time in the Ph.D. programme per the rules and regulations of QIP.

Part-time

An applicant in this category is a professionally employed and/or qualified person, who pursues the Ph.D. programme while continuing the duties of his/her service. The candidate while applying in this category should upload a no-objection certificate duly signed by the employer.  The University does not provide any assistantship/fellowship to candidates in this category.

Admission Procedure

Admissions shall be as per applications made available from March of every year. For all categories, admission will be granted based on the Ph.D. admission test of CVV (CVV-PAT) followed by an interview, held normally once a year, during August, duly notified in advance.

Important Dates
  • Last date for applying is 31st August 2023
  • CVV-PAT is to be conducted during the first week of August. The date will be updated soon. It will be an online examination.
  • Students will join the programme from September 2023 
Two-stage Admission Process
  • Stage One: An online admission test (CVV-PAT) conducted in August every year.
  • Stage Two: The list of eligible candidates for the interview will be notified on the CVV website after the conduct of the CVV-PAT.
  • Admissions will be based on an admission test and interview conducted by the respective schools
Exemptions to the Two-stage Process
  • Candidates who have qualified UGC-NET (including JRF/UGC-CSIR NET/SLET/GATE/ teacher fellowship holder or Ph.D. programmes from a recognised university (UGC approved) shall be exempted from appearing for the test.
Admission Registration
  • A candidate shall be recommended  based on the following:
    • Performance in the entrance test
    • Availability of an approved research supervisor

After submission and verification of all eligibility documents and payment of the prescribed fee by the due date, the provisional admission will be officially conveyed to the candidate. The candidate would be required to submit a letter of consent signed by the Research Supervisor to the office of the Dean-Research. The admission will be confirmed thereafter.

Duration of Programme

The Ph.D. programme shall be for a minimum duration of three years, inclusive of course work and a maximum of six years including permissible extensions as per the Ph.D. regulations 2023. After the completion of six years, the admission will get cancelled unless otherwise decided by the University.

Programme Fees

Programmes

Annual Programme Fee INR (Indian Domicile Students)

Ph.D. (Full-time)

₹52,500/-

Ph.D. (Part-time)


₹1,05,000/-

Application Fee


₹1000/-

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