Widely recognized as a research and teaching department, the Humanities and Social Sciences at BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus, was established in 2004. Since its inception the department, which also hosted the management stream but was later merged into the department of Economics, has long been known for its innovations and excellence in teaching and research. The department is dedicated to recruiting faculty members from newer research areas alongside traditional disciplines. It provides support and autonomy to the individual teachers to develop their areas and introduce new courses, particularly in interdisciplinary areas. The expertise of the faculty members range from Shakespearean studies, literary theory, ecocriticism, film studies, meta-cognitive studies, tourism studies to developmental studies, disaster management, environmental social sciences, maritime studies, qualitative psychology, mental health and professional ethics.
The department aims at enriching the knowledge and awareness of students in various areas of humanistic and socio-scientific studies and enhancing their creative and critical thinking skills thereby enabling them to become well-rounded human beings, committed to the society, and to excel in their professional and personal lives.
The strength of the Research Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Goa, is in the diversity of expertise of the faculty members. The faculty members are engaged in cutting edge research that are socially, culturally and politically relevant and contemporary. The publications of the faculty members are evidence for their research.
All are cordially invited for Art Exhibition
30 April, 2024Workshop on “Collaborative Teaching-Learning Process” on May 9th and 10th 2024
30 April, 2024Inauguration of the HSS Media Lab.
20 April, 2024BITS Pilani – RMIT PhD Recruitments
17 April, 2024Ph.D. Admission Open for Second Semester, Academic Year 2024-25
5 April, 2024Research Methodology Workshop Series on Conducting Qualitative interviews
22 March, 2024Research Methodology Workshop Series on Action Research
17 March, 2024Research Methodology Workshop Series on Ethnography
17 March, 2024International conference on Wit, Humour, and the Carnivalesque in Literature and Performance
13 February, 2024Research Methodology Workshop Series Topic – Data Analytics for HSS
6 February, 2024Talk on: River of life, The Struggle to Save Narmada
30 January, 2024Research Methodology Workshop Series Topic – Collection of Oral history
27 January, 2024HSS Research Forum invites you for Research Methodology Workshop Series
27 January, 2024IUCN CEM Forest Ecosystem Specialist Group, CEM South Asia, Goa State Biodiversity Board,
11 December, 2023Beaux Arts and the Second Empire
26 September, 2023Akanksha N. Padmakumar
Area: Philosophy
Supervisor: Prof. Reena Cheruvalath
E-mail: h20190900@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Mitra Gireesh
Area: Psychology
Supervisor: Dr. Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi
E-mail: h20190903@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Akash Sadanand Naik Salgaonkar
Area: Philosophy
Supervisor: Dr.Hareesh A.G.
E-mail: h20200188@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Aparna Sharma
Area: Gender studies
Supervisor: Prof. Lakshmi Subramanian
E-mail: h20200187@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Harsha S
Area: Psychology
Supervisor: Dr. Bidisha Banerjee
E-mail: h20200190@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Srishti
Area: Education
Supervisor: Prof. Geetha B
E-mail: h20200189@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Mr. Vijay Lamani
Office Assistant
Tel: +91-832-2580-224
Email: vijay@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in & humanities.office@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Office address: A-304, Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciences BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, Zuarinagar - 403726. Goa.
Mr. Sameer Shivram Redkar
Technician
Tel: +91-832-2580-224 / +91 9930076897
Media Lab (Language lab): CC-122/1
Email: sameerr@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, NH 17B, Zuarinagar, Goa - 403726