Research Projects
Research will be conducted in a team-based approach. Research in The Academy will be truly multi-disciplinary which will allow discoveries to be made at the interface of disciplines.
The Academy’s intention is to organise research into classes of problems that seeks to address a key research-theme or sector-goal.
Eight key research themes have been identified:
- Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture
- Infrastructure Engineering
- Clean Energy
- Water
- Nanotechnology
- Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Design
Research Themes | Project Number | Monash University Supervisor |
IIT-Bombay Supervisor |
Project Title | Project Status |
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Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0498 | Sjaanie Koppel | Azizuddin Khan | Impact of personality traits on driving behaviours among various age groups |
Candidate Required |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0499 | Sjaanie Koppel | Azizuddin Khan | Role of working and prospective memory in the performance of young and old drivers |
Candidate Required |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0503 | Mridula Nath Chakraborty | Rowena Robinson | Women, Minorities and Access to the City. | Candidate Required |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0504 | Mridula Nath Chakraborty | Paulomi Chakraborty | Migration, Minority, Memory. | Candidate Required |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0501 | Shanthakumar Wilson Rajaratnam Co-supervisors: Sean Drummond and Clare Anderson |
Azizuddin Khan | Effect of sleep disruption on cognitive performance and its relevance with biological clock |
Candidate Required |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0635 | Monima Chadha | C. D. Sebastian | Cognition and Mind in Indian and Western Traditions | Candidate Required |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0633 | Dharma Arunachalam Co- Supervisor: Swati Parashar |
Rowena Robinson | Dynamics of Family Change in India | Candidate Required |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0500 | Shanthakumar Wilson Rajaratnam | Azizuddin Khan | Effect of sleep deprivation on decision making and vigilance among night shift workers |
Candidate Required |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0762 | Dharmalingam Arunachalam | Satish B. Agnihotri | Can unsafe be smart? Smart city governance and women´s safety in Urban India |
Candidate Required |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0765 | Antonio Verdejo-Garcia Monash Co-supervisor: Naomi Kakoschke |
Rashmi Gupta | The interactive effect of cognition, emotion, and motivation on behaviour |
Candidate Required |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0507 | Mridula Nath Chakraborty | Ronita Bardhan and Arnab Jana | Women Without Fear: Gender-based Violence, Urban Transport and Public Space in Metropolitan India |
Candidate Required |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0636 | Bebe Loff | Rama Pal | The economics and ethics of hospital care in India | Candidate Required |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0637 | Bebe Loff | Amrita Banerjee | In search of innovative models of justice to respond to sexual violence |
Candidate Required |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0730 | Srinivas Sridharan | Anush Kapadia | An Ethnography of Cash Consumption in Urban India | Candidate Required |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0759 | Adrian McNeil | Suddhaseel Sen | Narratives of Music and Modernity in 19th Century Colonial Calcutta | Candidate Required |
Design, Humanities and Social Sciences | ID00690 | Misha Myers | Nina Sabnani | Digitalore: Sustainable preservation, transmission and transformation of intangible cultural heritage through digital storytelling |
Candidate Required |
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Humanities and Social Sciences | IMURA0780 | Gholamreza Haffari | Preethi Jyothi>br> IITB Co-supervisor: Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Malhar Kulkarni | Spoken translation systems for resource scarce languages | Candidate Required |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0754 | Michael Ure Monash Co-Supervisors: Paul Muldoon, Anne McNevin |
Siby K. George | Sustaining Democracies | Candidate Required |
Humanities and Social Sciences, Design, Management | HSS0763 | Robert Thomson Samanthi Gunawardana |
Suryakant Waghmore Rowena Robinson, Arun Iyer |
Representative democracy in India: The making, breaking and fulfilment of campaign promises |
Candidate Required |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0772 | Mridula Nath Chakraborty | Ahonaa Roy | Alternative Sexualities, Queer Cultures: Negotiations, Performances, Activisms |
Candidate Required |
Humanities and Social Sciences, Clean Energy | HSS0771 | Robert Thomson Co-supervisor:Prof. Michael Mintrom |
Anand Rao | India’s Renewable Energy Policy | Candidate Required |
Humanities and Social Sciences, Clean Energy | HSS0770 | Robert Thomson Monash Co-supervisor: Dharmalingam Arunachalam |
Priya Jadhav | The value, implementation and uptake of distributed generation solutions in light of poor quality grid supply in low usage rural areas: the impact of technical, political and social factors |
Candidate Required |
Humanities and Social Sciences | IMURA0637 | Bebe Loff | Satish Agnihotri | In search of innovative models of justice to respond to sexual violence |
Candidate Required |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0489 | Michael Ure Co-Supervisor: Paul Muldoon and Anne McNevin |
Siby K. George | Sustaining Democracies | Candidate Allotted Ananya Dasgupta |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0731 | Greg Markowsky | Pushpa Trivedi | Demand for Cash: An Econometric Model for India | Candidate Allotted Anirudh Tagat |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0707a | Samanthi Gunawardana Monash Co Supervisor: Marika Vicziany |
D. Parthasarathy | Lives, Livelihoods and Aspirations of the Kolis in Mumbai: Urban Transformation, Space, Habitat, and Coastal Contestations |
Candidate Allotted Anusha Gavankar |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0634 | Dharma Arunachalam Co- Supervisor: Swati Parashar |
Mrinmoyi Kulkarni Rama Pal |
Child and reproductive health in India | Candidate Allotted Bhavna Rajagopal |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0506 | Mridula Nath Chakraborty Co-supervisors: Swati Parashar |
D. Parthasarathy | Class, Gender, and the Transformation of Public and Community Spaces in Indian Urban Metropolises |
Candidate Allotted Indu Rai |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0707b | Samanthi Gunawardana | D. Parthasarathy | Livelihoods and Aspirations of the Kolis in Mumbai: Urban Transformation, Space, Habitat, and Coastal Contestations |
Candidate Allotted Kailash Tandel |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0705 | Alice Gaby | Vaijayanthi Sarma | Documentation of the Endangered Languages of South Asia | Candidate Allotted Mashrur Imtiaz |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0645 | Dharma Arunachalam Co- Supervisor: Swati Parashar |
D.Parthasarathy | Exploring gender and ethnic dimensions of malnutrition | Candidate Allotted Pragati Dubey |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0505 | Mridula Nath Chakraborty | Paulomi Chakraborty | Gender and Public Sphere | Candidate Allotted Sreejata Paul |
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture, Humanities and social sciences | IMURA0742 | Chung-Hsing Yeh | Pankaj Dutta | Sustainability based recycling planning using multi-criteria decision making |
Candidate Alloted Pratistha Chandra |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0641 | Pushkar Maitra | Sarthak Gaurav Co- Supervisor: Ashish Singh |
EVALUATION OF OUTCOMES AND IMPACTS OF NRHM | Candidate Alloted Rohit Shah |
Humanities and social sciences | IMURA0794 | Amrik Sohal | T T Niranjan | Supply Chain Risk Management In Practice: A Behavioral Study of What Is, And What It Is Thought To Be | Candidate Required |
Clean Energy, Humanities and social sciences | IMURA0804 | Prof Mita Bhattacharya | Prof Vinish Kathuria | Energy Transition in the Indian Economy | Candidate Required |
Humanities and social sciences | HSS0818 | Dharma Arunachalam | Satish B Agnihotri | Where does the shoe pinch – mapping the contours of child malnutrition to plan its elimination | Candidate Required |
Humanities and social sciences | IMURA0833 | Kristian Rotaru | Tarikere T. Niranjan | Psychophysiological Studies to Understand and Correct Cognitive Biases in Operations Management | Candidate Required |
Humanities and social sciences | IMURA0834 | Kristian Rotaru | Tarikere T. Niranjan | The role of executive functioning skills in decision-making under risk and uncertainty: Testing the influence of time pressure, distraction, and multitasking | Candidate Required |
Humanities and Social Sciences | IMURA0867 | Prof.Robert Thomson Co-supervisor:Prof. Wray Buntine |
Prof.Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan Co-supervisor: Prof. Preethi Jyothi |
Artificial Intelligence for Stronger Indian Democracy: Advances in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for Analysing Political Text | Candidate Required |
Clean Energy Humanities and social sciences |
IMURA0879 | Robert Thomson Roger Dargaville |
Anand B. Rao Jayendran Venkateswaran |
Understanding the electricity access-development linkages of centralised and decentralised supply schemes using system dynamics framework | Candidate Required |
Clean Energy Humanities and social sciences |
IMURA0880 | Srinivas Sridharan Vinod Mishra |
Anand B. Rao Satish B. Agnihotri |
Analysing the pathways of Indian domestic electricity consumption using bottom-up modelling approach | Candidate Required |
Humanities &Social Sciences, Design | ID0897 | Prof.Nicole Kalms Prof. Gene Bawden |
Prof.Sugandh Malhotra | Preventing Sexual Harassment in Indian Public Transport Spaces through Gender-Sensitive Co-Design with Women and Girls | Candidate Required |
Humanities and social sciences | HSS0903 | Prof.Mridula Nath Chakraborty | Prof.Amrita Banerjee | Literatures of decoloniality, Philosophies of difference | Candidate Required |
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Humanities and social sciences | IMURA0906 | Prof. Andrew Hoadley | Prof. Yogendra Shastri | Assessment of circular economy adoption for global sustainability | Candidate Required |
Humanities and social sciences | IMURA0919 | Prof Dharmalingam Arunachalam | Prof. Amit Arora Prof. Satish Agnihotri |
Stubborn and persistent – Child Malnutrition in India | Candidate Required |
Humanities and Social Sciences | HSS0942 | Dr.Michael Ure | Siby K. George | Affective Approaches to Justice as a Way of Life | Candidate Required |
Water, Humanities & Social Sciences | IMURA0954 | Prof.Murali Sastry | Prof. Pankaj Sekhsaria | What does safe, affordable drinking water mean? | Candidate Required |
Humanities and Social Sciences | IMURA0982 | Prof. Mohan Yeliishetty | Prof. Ritayan Mitra | Using DEBE feedback to improve geoscience curriculum, teaching and learning | Candidate Required |