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At TISS - Campus Life Through the Years (15:16 mins, English, 2011)

Rethinking TISS: Restructuring for Relevance

In 2006 TISS underwent an academic restructuring. Departments & units orgainized into schools & centres.

Prof. Parasuraman
Prof. Parasuraman (Current Director) On How Restructuring Came About
"As a faculty team all of us got together to internally analyse how are we organised, how are we supported, how are we facilitated in our teaching and research work and how that has resulted in productivity in terms of research output, production and our teaching actually. I think that was far more an internally driven, soul-searching process which the faculty went through... 

It's very interesting that an institution can go through restructuring and repositioning without outside help. So once we understood what were our constraints, and once we understood that how else we can locate ourselves in order to be able to be relevant in the social and economic and political context, I think then it became easier for us to revise and reposition ourselves"
4 Campuses. 9 Schools. 33 Centre. 20 Research Facilities

Schools and Centres on Mumbai Campus

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK

Centres:

  • Community Organisation and Development Practice
  • Criminology and Criminal Justice
  • Disability Studies and Action
  • Environment, Equity and Justice
  • Equity for Women Children and Families
  • Health and Mental Health
  • Livelihood and Social Entrepreneurship
  • Social Justice and Governance

Research & Incubation Facilities:

  • South Asia Centre for Studies in Conflict, Peace & Human Security
  • Centre for Incubation of Social Work Initiatives
  • Learning and Teaching Support Network for the Enhancement of Social Work Education and Practice
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT & LABOUR STUDIES

Centres:

  • Human Resources Management and Labour Relations
  • Labour Studies
  • Public Policy and Governance
  • Social Entrepreneurship

Research & Innovation Facilities:

  • Incubation Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
  • Labour Market Research Facility
SCHOOL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Centres:

  • Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies
  • Study of Developing Economies
  • Public Policy, Habitat and Human Development
  • Study of Developing Societies
  • Population, Health and Development

Research Facilities:

  • Nutrition Research Facility
SCHOOL OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Centres:

  • Elementary Education
  • Higher Education (Research and Institutional Development) & Indian Languages and Language Education in Higher Education
SCHOOL OF HEALTH SYSTEM STUDIES

Centres:

  • Health and Social Sciences
  • Health Policy Planning and Management
  • Hospital Management
  • Public Health

Research Facilities:

  • Social Science Research Facility on HIV/AIDS
  • India Health Observatory
SCHOOL OF HABITAT STUDIES

Centres:

  • Climate Change and Sustainability
  • Science, Technology and Society
  • Urban Policy and Governance
  • Water Policy, Regulation and Governance
  • Jamsetji Tata Centre for Disaster Management

Research & Skill Development Facilities:

  • Geoinformatics Laboratory
  • Urban Observatory
SCHOOL OF MEDIA & CULTURAL STUDIES

Centres:

  • Critical Media Praxis
  • Study of Contemporary Culture
  • Media Archive and Resource Centre
SCHOOL OF LAW, RIGHTS & CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNANCE

Centres:

  • Law and Society
  • Nodal Centre of Excellence for Human Rights Education (NCEHRE)
Independent Centres
  • Centre for Lifelong Learning
  • Centre for Human Ecology
  • Centre for Social Exclusion And Inclusive Policies
  • Centre for Research Methodology
  • Centre for Studies in Sociology of Education
  • Computer Centre

Our Campuses

TISS Guwahati (2009 - Present)

M.A. in Social Work for the North-East region on the anvil. Ongoing Diploma in Community Organisation & Development Practice.

Post Independence Post Independence
TISS Hyderabad (2008 - Present)

Collaboration with Andhra Pradesh Academy for Rural Development (APARD), Osmania University, Hyderabad and the Azmi Premji Foundation for a education, research and training.

Tata Institute of Social Sciences
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