On the occasion of World food day, department of social work, central university of Jammu organised a regional consultation on theme “Regional consultation on diversity of Indian food systems: contemporary issues and challenges”. The conveners of the con-sultation are Dr. Ranvir singh and Dr. Bhat Iqbal. The consultation was formally started by welcome address by Dr. Nancy Mengi. The consultation had three sessions capturing the diversity knowledge scapes by experts from disciplines of ayurveda, botany, Agricul-ture, tribal culture, regional organisations and social work. First session was based on food, Agrobiodiversity and traditional knowledge; understanding the triad. The session had Dr. Sanjeev kumar from SKUAST, Jammu, Dr. Vasanta kohli Sr, dietician from, Jammu and Ranjoy Gupta, research scholar from department of social work, central uni-versity of Jammu as panelists. . The session was moderated by research scholar, Jaspreet singh. Second session was based on food, culture and ethnobotanical diversity; reflec-tions from the field which had Dr Samantha from department of botany, Central Univer-sity of Jammu, Javiad rahi, tribal researcher and social activist and professor Harirama-murthi from Bengaluru as panelists. This session was moderated by research scholar, su-hel. The third session was based on insights on food: health, policy and market interlink-ages. The session had Dr, Vikas Bajpai from centre of social medicine, CSMCH, JNU and Dr. Vikas Gupta from Jammu institute of ayurveda and research as panel members. The session was moderated by research scholar Joji Abraham.
16th October, 2023
Sponsered by Central University of Jammu
Department of social work under the patronage of vice chancellor organized a Three day Research Methodology workshop. Invited speakers included Dr Anil Kumar Tiwari from Department of Philosophy and Culture, SMVDU, Prof. Anil Gupta from The School of Business Studies, University of Jammu, Dr Hema Gandotra from Department of Sociol-ogy, University of Jammu. Dr Amit Verma from Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Manipal University who delivered lecture on systematic literature re-view and bibliometric analysis and Dr Bharti Gupta from department of Travel and Tourism Management, Central University of Jammu who delivered lecture on ethics in research and hands on training session on Nvivo software. Prof Manish Sharma from Department of Statistics and Computer Science, SKUAST who spoke on various statisti-cal tests and analysis techniques.
21-23rd August, 2023
Sponsered by Central University of Jammu
