Aim
The Research Policy of the institution aims to create and recommend a vibrant research culture among its members of faculty, student community and researchers. It would strengthen their competencies to facilitate active participation in research and related activities. It will pave way to generate academic and economic growth, achieve societal recognition and community development.
Marian Research Forum
Marian Research Forum (MRF) is an innovative forum founded by a group of researchers those who have completed and who have been pursuing research at present in St. Mary’s College (Autonomous), Thoothukudi. It is the joint initiative of the academician as well as research exponents whose primary concern is to fill the widening gap between the R&D and the academics. MRF will organise annual meet that will be unique in their format and focus. Efforts have been made to reinstate all the Marian Researchers to our Campus. This Forum aims to bring the faculty, research scholars and the students of the campus come closer to each other with constant and continuous interaction in order to enhance the research activities and the skills. It also ensures young researchers the possibility to meet and discuss research topics and methodologies, to share and develop ideas, to learn from each other and to gain knowledge from senior researchers. Apart from discussing the individual research problems, the forum is focusing its attention on strengthening inter-disciplinary research.
Research Advisory Committee
The committee will comprise of the principal as the chairperson, member secretary as the co-ordinator, 9 faculty as members and industry/academia representatives as its members.
Specific Objectives
- The research policy will be applicable to all faculty, students, external experts and industrialists associated with research enterprise of the college
- To invigorate the institutional capacity for strategic, technical and operational planning, budgeting and exercising control over all the research activities of the college
- To frame rules and regulations, effective techniques and guidelines for the grant of research and other related activities
- To promote transfer of knowledge through consultancy
- To establish a framework to support consultancy activities and services
General Objectives
- To inculcate the research attitude among scholars and to promote them to undertake original research work and study
- To encourage staff to undertake major and minor projects in a wide range of fields
- To enable the staff and students them to present research papers in seminars and conferences and publish articles, chapters and books in UGC approved research journals
- To organize national and international seminars and conferences in collaboration with other institutions, universities and industries and transfer knowledge across the boundaries
- To create and administer a research fund for executing the research facilities of the college
- To render a methodology for a proper coordination of all the research activities of the college
- To integrate research with the curriculum through research projects by the learners
- To provide information about appropriate research opportunities announced by distinct academic research, industry or government organizations
- To establish linkages with the institutions, industries for internship on the job training and sharing of research facilities
- To have tie ups with MoUs for long term relationships with universities, industries, corporate houses to make the researchers do job oriented project work.
Significant Functions
- Facilitate the faculty in undertaking research by mobilizing research fund to pursue research
- Provide research facilities such as laboratory equipments, research journals, books and furniture
- Promote a research culture by gearing them to attend conferences, workshops and symposiums
- Encourage the staff and students to do research in collaboration with other institutions and research organizations
- Formulate curriculum for M.Phil and Ph.D programme
- Motivate to establish of specific research units/centres by funding agencies
- Organise seminars/workshops/symposiums/exhibitions to promote research activities
- Send research proposals to funding agencies to support students’ projects
- Invite industries to use the research facilities of the college and sponsor research projects
- Approach National organizations such as UGC, ICSSR, DST, DBT, TNSCST to fund major and minor research projects undertaken by the faculty and students
- Develop and adapt an official code of ethics to check malpractices and plagiarism
- Motivate interdepartmental and interdisciplinary research projects
- Induce faculty to publish research articles and books in journal with high citation index to formulate rules and guidelines for research related leave