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RESEARCH POLICY OF CUTM

Objectives of Research Policy
The broad objective of the research policy is to provide guide lines for undertaking high impact and context specific applied research so that CUTM will be well-known in the chosen fields in next five years. The objectives include knowledge generation, evidence-based advocacy, experiential learning and strengthening the curriculum.

Organisation of Research Activities
The research activities at CUTM will be organised in a decentralised manner, with minimal central coordination for ensuring standardisation of publication and high quality output. Figure 1 indicates the Research Organisation Structure at CUTM. There will be a Research Policy Group (RPG) headed by the Vice Chancellor with the Director (Research) as the Member Secretary. Other members of the Research Policy Group would constitute Pro-VC (Engineering), Pro VC (Management) and Pro VC (Learning). The Research Policy Group will decide policy guidelines and themes for the research at the University. It will meet twice in a year.

The Research Advisory Group (RAG) comprising of the President (CUTM), Vice-President (CUTM), experts from government, industry, civil society and academia will advise the Research Council about the desired direction and scope of research at CUTM. The RAG will be chaired by the President (CUTM). Director (Research) will be the Member Secretary. RAG will meet once a year.

To operationalise the research activities at department and faculty level, there will be a Research Council (RC) comprising Dean (Engineering), Dean (Management), Dean (TPC) and Director (Research). Director (Research) will be the Chairperson of the Research Committee. The Research Council will meet at least once in three months, facilitate the research activities, monitor progress and ensure timely publication. Every department head or a designated faculty from the department will have single point responsibility for all research related activities of their department and he/she will report to the Director (Research), through respective heads of the department.

There will be a Research Coordination Committee (RCC) comprising Director (Research), Coordinator (Doctoral Research) and Coordinator (Graduate Research). Director (Research) will be the Chairperson of this Committee. She/he will be responsible for research process standardisation, quality assurance, progress monitoring and publication. RCC will meet once in every month

In partial fulfillment of the academic programs, research activities will be taken up by the students at doctoral, masters and graduate level. Similarly faculty also undertakes research in its area of interest. The Research Coordination Committee will ensure that the faculty’s and student’s research activities are standardized, reasonable quality is assured and the output of the research meets the direction recommended by the Research Council. Accordingly, it will be responsible for enhancing research capacity of faculty and students, developing style manual, facilitating linkage with outside institutions and supporting in-house and outside publication. The Research Coordination Committee will create an enabling research environment in the university through weekly seminar series, symposiums, etc. It will network with researchers and institutions for strengthening research activities.

Themes of Research

Although faculty and students can chose their topic of research, considering the need of the university to be well-known in specific areas of interest to the region/state, they will be counselled to undertake research activities in the following thematic areas.

1. Engineering
   1. Low Cost Building Technology
   2. Watershed Development
   3. Water and Sanitation
   4. Smart Grid
   5. Integrated Energy System
   6. Renewable Energy
   7. Clean Coal Technology
   8. Metal Extraction
   9. Flexible Manufacturing
   10. Cloud Computing
   11. GIS and Remote Sensing
2. Agriculture
   1. Organic Farming
   2. Organic Manure
   3. Integrated Pest Management
   4. Natural Resource Management
   5. Horticulture
   6. Forestry
   7. Fishery
   8. Goatery
   9. Dairy
3. Management
   1. Medium and Small Enterprises
   2. Agribusiness Management
   3. Social Entrepreneurship
   4. Rural Marketing
   5. Rural Finance
   6. Sustainable Livelihood Security
   7. Development Communication
   8. Technology Management
4. Humanities/Social Science/Basic Science
   1. Gender and Development
   2. Sustainable Development
   3. Decentralized Planning
   4. Development Communication
   5. Technology-Society Interface
   6. Disaster Management

Research Publication

The output of the research by the faculty will be published in-house in the form of Working Paper and Research Study. Faculty will be encouraged to publish in refereed journals. The output of students’ research will be published as dissertation, theses or research reports. Each in-house publication will go through a quality assurance process before it is released to public domain. The Research Coordination Committee may delegate the quality assurance task to the faculty members. If required, language editing facility will be provided to the faculty and students. It is expected that each faculty will publish at least one Working paper in a year. The procedure for publication of Working Paper will be as below.

1. Submission to a committee (to ensure quality of WP’s)
2. Referee to review the WP internally and assess the criteria – theoretical, empirical contribution by the author
3. Literature review and inclusion of new material is required
4. Prescribed referencing pattern has to be followed by the author
5. Grading of WP’s – i) Publishable, ii) Publishable with revision, iii) Not publishable
6. Referee reports should be available in 3 weeks time
7. The working paper can be put on hold, if it hampers the publication of the same in a journal

Incentives for Research:
Incentives in the form of financial reward and promotion will be an integral part of the
research policy of the University. It will be announced from time to time.

Give yourself an edge in this competitive world. Join a multidisciplinary PhD Program to enrich your research experience. The University’s PhD Programs provide the chance to work with others who share a passion for discovering new knowledge and push disciplinary boundaries.

Apply Online (Compulsory)

Last date for registration is extended to 31st May 2022.

Why join a PhD Program

Students in our PhD programs are encouraged from day one to think of this experience as their first job – a training ground for a challenging and rewarding career generating rigorous, relevant research that influences theory, practice and policy.

By joining a PhD Program, you will set yourself up for success. You’ll have support and opportunities throughout your research degree. This will enable you to:

• access a breadth of expertise from across the University
• consider your research from the perspective of other disciplines
• place your research in a broader multidisciplinary context
• develop professional skills to enhance your career prospects
• improve your research and communication skills to become an accomplished researcher

Ph.D Admission 2022

The University invites Application for its Doctoral Programme (Entry June 2022).

Candidates who have qualified in JRF, GATE and NET etc are encouraged to apply.

Candidates can align themselves with one of the 25 multidisciplinary research centers that have been promoted by the University.

These Centers and social enterprises promoted by the University help in solving real life problems faced by the community through the development of skilled manpower and appropriate technologies.

Gram Tarang Technologies, a vertical of Centurion University is interested in collaborating and financially supporting Ph.D in the following areas (product development):

1. E Mobility: Includes Bikes, SCV and Drones
2. Insulin Pump Design and Manufacturing
3. Hand held Bio Medical Devices or Lab on Chip Kits
4. Phyto Pharma Applications to Gut Health, Insecticides and others
5. AI/ ML Applications
6. Software Product Development using Block chain, Fin Tech etc
7. Smart Agriculture Applications
8. New Materials ( including Composites and Bio-materials)

The University encourages applicants interested in the above areas to apply and may be considered for full time research positions. They will be allotted supervisors from the industry as well as the University.

FAQs
In any query, E-mail to the ID: [email protected]

Applicants are advised to visit the concerned School in the CUTM website for more details about possible supervisors and areas of research.
They must read the Ph.D regulations for eligibility and other details. The University encourages candidates to undertake action research.

Hard copies i.e Application Form, Brief Synopsis, Screenshot of the payment, CV, Passport size photo (2 nos),
Migration Certificates , Photocopy of qualification & experience to be posted to:-

Ph.D Application –
To – Coordinator,
Ph.D Cell,

Centurion University of Technology and Management
At- Ramachandrapur,
P.O – Jatni, Bhubaneswar,
Pin – 752050
Dist: Khurda, Odisha, India

LAST DATE FOR RECEIVING ONLINE APPLICATIONS IS 20th Dec 2021.

In case of any query you may contact Dr. Kamal Barik in his mail id – [email protected] , Call: +91-9439477770

In case of any technical problem (at the time of filling-in online application), you may contact Mr. Nrusinha Das Email- [email protected].

Ph.D Awarded
RM & Course Work Information
Formalities and Procedures for Submission of Synopsis and Thesis

CUTM Doctoral Programme

We enable you to design your own PhD programs. The focus could be in a core discipline or multidisciplinary and applied sciences, to resolve real time, real world problems. It could be in niche areas, be process or product oriented, and relating to management or social issues. The program features a series of activities to enhance your learning experience. You have to complete the mandated coursework and in addition attend workshops and seminars, delivered by experts in your field. You will keep up to date with research findings in the discipline(s) of interest to you. And you will also have opportunities for teaching, mentoring and internships.

The University started offering the doctoral programme in 2011 in the areas of Engineering, Applied Sciences, Management, Humanities/Social Sciences, Pharmacy, Agriculture. Ph.D in Inter-disciplinary areas are also accepted in the programme. So far the University has produced 58 doctorates and there are a total of 262 students enrolled in the Ph.D programme in different disciplines, out of which 22 are receiving stipends from the University. Centurion University encourages Ph.D students to undertake action research with strong policy and application implications.

Course Work

A student has to complete course work of one year duration in which Research Methodology is compulsory. The Ph.D scholars admitted to CUTM are required to qualify in three subjects i.e. Research Methodology, Paper II ,Paper III . Scholars belonging to Science and Engineering are appearing in a written examination conducted annually and the scholars belonging to Humanities and Management have a choice of presentation and submission pattern of a Special Study report and publication as a review paper as substitutes to Paper II and Paper III respectively.

Objective –

The main objectives of the course work is to develop an understanding of the following: theoretical and methodological foundations of research;

• the research process;
• how to prepare a research design including the methods and techniques to be used;
• the theoretical formulation of a topic, the process and methods of data collection;
• how data is analysed and interpreted; and
• the process of writing a research report.

Course content –

The scholars are given admission for three years including pre-registration year in which they are required to obtain a grade point of 6.0 through their course work, enabling them to register for the research work and submission of the thesis thereafter. The course work is to be evaluated through credit system comprising of 2 courses and a review paper each having 4 credits as per below given details.

1. Paper I – Research Methodology
2. Paper II – Foundation course relevant to the area of research.
3. Paper III – Literature Review (based on the topic of research), preferably sent for publication.

The Research Methodology (RM) course is mandatory for all in which the scholar has to be physically present with 75% attendance to complete it. The students participate in the class either at the Jatni Campus (during weekends over a span of over 2 months – August – November) or for a period of 7 days at a stretch in the month of November at the Parlakhemundi Campus. RM carries 40% internal and 60% external marks. The internal examination is conducted by the supervisor /committee member. The external examination is for 60% written type and open book.

About the programme –

This programme includes registration seminar , course work, annual review , pre-submission talk and thesis submission. One can submit his/her thesis after 3 years of registration. If the scholar unable to submit the thesis within the stipulated time period, an extension of 2 years is allowed. Extensions beyond 5 years is allowed in special cases only.