Dr. Padmavathi B S
Director
Holds Post Graduate Degree in Political Science, M. Phil. and Doctoral Degrees with specialization in foreign Policies (of India and the United States of America) from the Department of Political Science, Bangalore University. She holds a certificate on ‘Introduction to Corporate Social Responsibility’ awarded by United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR, Geneva). Has completed ‘Women Entrepreneurship Programme’ of IIM-Bangalore and is a certified Global Career Counsellor from UCLA Extension. She has coordinated and headed nearly 30 national and international survey related projects. Has worked with the International Academy for Creative Teaching (iACT) as the Coordinator (PGDCT-KSOU) and as a Senior Faculty - Social Sciences. Has served as a member of the NCTE Textbook Committee (XII-World Politics). Has contributed to the drafting of Karnataka State Youth Policy as a Member of the Drafting Committee. As Project Coordinator of Madiwala Biodiversity Park Project, a flagship project of KLCDA, she facilitated project implementation. Served Karnataka Knowledge Commission, Government of Karnataka, as Senior Research Associate.
Email: padmavathi@cessedu.org
Sri. Gowrisha
Deputy Director
Has 12 years of teaching experience at postgraduate level teaching Management subjects and served as coordinator for Internal Quality Assurance Cell. His areas of interest are Quality in Education and Management of NGOs. He has published and presented many papers at national level and presently working on research in the area of Happiness Index in Organizations. He has worked as Chief Consultant in the Technical Secretariat of Committee to draft National Education Policy headed by renowned Space Scientist Dr. K Kasturirangan, which was constituted by MHRD, Government of India in the year 2017. He also served as honorary Secretary and Treasurer of C-LAMPS, a Bengaluru based NGO.
Email: gowrisha@cessedu.org
Dr. Soumya Prakash B S
Assistant Director
A Doctorate in Management, she has over 9 years of Corporate Experience and 4 years of Academic experience. She has been awarded the “High Impact Award” from Ernst and Young and “Champion of Progeon-Infosys” award from Infosys for Performance excellence. She is also a Certified Learning Leader, certified by Ernst & Young. She has published many research papers in National and International Journals. She has worked as a Researcher in the Technical Secretariat of Committee to draft National Educational Policy headed by renowned Space Scientist, Dr. K. Kasturirangan, which was constituted by MHRD, Government of India in 2017.
Email: soumya@cessedu.org
Ms. Dharani S
Senior Associate
She is pursuing her doctoral studies in the field of English studies with special focus on Philology, History of Disciplines and Universities and Liberal education. Her area of interest includes Literary and cultural studies, Higher Education and English studies. She has three years of teaching experience both at undergraduate and postgraduate studies. She is passionate to work on social sectors with a motive to bring positive change. She has played an instrumental role in transforming Aahana NGO and successfully placed it into a scalable model exhibiting her managerial skills. She has also worked as a volunteer at Campus2Community, a group of young students and professionals who are committed to improving the quality of Government-run schools in Karnataka.
Email: dharani@cessedu.org
Ms. Sindhuja C.V
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Professional with a demonstrated history of working in Academic and Research Industry. She is skilled in Research Design, Psychometric Assessment, Field work, Case study, Learning and Development. She obtained Ph.D. from Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. She worked as Post-Doctoral Fellow at IISc and NIAS. She represented IISc, Bengaluru at Technical University Clausthal, Germany for Indo-German Partnership for Advanced Research (2017) administered by UGC, India and DAAD, Germany. She has involved in several consulting projects and also served as visiting faculty in various Institutions.
Email: sindhuja@cessedu.org
India Studies Unit
Sri. Chaitra M.S
Senior Fellow
He is a trained Ecologist. After his master’s in Zoology, he worked with Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, Center for Ecological Sciences (CES), Indian Institute of Science (IISC), Bengaluru. His concern for Indian society lead him to study Social Sciences and Humanities. Then he worked with different organisations related to education and development studies. For more than eight years he has been working under the guidance of Prof. S N Balagangadhara and has been involved in building a group scholars who are involved in doing collaborative research in an emerging discipline called “Comparative Science of Cultures”. At present he is mentoring students who are interested in pursuing doctoral and postdoctoral research at India Studied Unit.
Email: chaitra@cessedu.org
Smt. Ashwini B Desai
Fellow
She has her master’s in English literature and has submitted her PhD thesis in English literature. Her research is an enquiry into how colonialism has impacted literary studies in India and how even the contemporary literary practice is shaped by European descriptions of India. She is making an attempt to understand how colonial consciousness impacts experiences of people using literature as an example.
Email: ashwini@cessedu.org
Sri. Harshith Joseph
Fellow
He has his master’s in English literature and has submitted his PhD thesis in English literature. His work explores what is being considered as translation problem. He is making an attempt to show that translation is not a simple linguistic problem, but it is the problem of cultural difference. Through series of translations from Kannada to English and vice versa, his work shows that when two cultures encounter each other, the problem is of understanding cultures is at the heart of the problem, than merely recognising translations as linguistic problem. His work shows important aspects like the impact of Bible translation on Kannada language and how colonial consciousness also becomes an additional issue in translation.
Email: harshith@cessedu.org
Office
Sri. B K Shivakumar
Office Superintendent
Has 17 years of experience in office management and administration. He has wide exposure working at educational institutions, NGOs and Corporate. He has functional expertise in office and personnel management, documentation, compliance with statutary requirements etc.
Email: shiva.admin@cessedu.org