Humanities and Social Sciences - IIT Ropar

WALK-IN-INTERVIEW FOR ADMISSIONS TO FULL-TIME PhD PROGRAMME AT IIT ROPAR

A walk-in Interview for admission to the full-time PhD program in the Second semester of the academic year 2025-26 in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences is scheduled as follows. Interested candidates can attend in person/ offline. For more details, candidates are advised to visit the PhD Admission Brochure 2025-26 on the Institute website (www.iitrpr.ac.in).

Date of Walk-in Interview: November 3, 2025

Research Areas

• Cognitive Science: Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience

• Economics: Macroeconomics; Financial Economics; International Economics; Applied Econometrics;Economics of Climate Change; Microeconometrics; Spatial Econometrics; Economic Geography andUrban Economics

• Interdisciplinary: Consumer Behaviour, Indian Knowledge System

• Linguistics: Experimental Linguistics; Language Comprehension; Phonology; Evolutionary Linguistics

• Management: Operations & Supply Chain Management; Decision Sciences; Renewable Energy;Sustainability; Business Analytics

PhD admission - Walk-in Interview!!

A walk-in Interview for admission to the full-time PhD program in the first semester of the academic year 2025-26 in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences is scheduled as follows. Interested candidates can attend in person/ offline.

Date of Interview: July 15, 2025
Place: IIT Ropar (SAB)

Disciplines: Psychology, Management, Economics, Philosophy, Linguistics, and Interdisciplinary areas (Marketing & Consumer Behaviour in Indian Yogic Systems)

For more details, candidates are advised to visit the PhD Admission Brochure 2025-26 on the Institute website.

https://www.iitrpr.ac.in/phd-categories

PhD Categories | Indian Institute of Technology Ropar

The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences celebrated its Research Scholar Day on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. Held in the department's newly furnished, state-of-the-art seminar room, the day-long program was teeming with expert talk, scholars' presentations, poster sessions, and panel discussions, interspersed with lunch and tea breaks.

A unique confluence of different disciplines (Economics, English, Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology, and Management), the Scholar day also opened a platform for exchanging ideas between research scholars and faculties. The enthusiasm regarding the sessions was palpable. The audience witnessed seemingly divergent research areas coming together in a cogent, collaborative structure during the presentation sessions, hinting at future collaborative enterprises.

The keynote speech, delivered by Prof. Jayanti Dutta from Punjab University, focused on the philosophy of constructive thinking by frequent references to the Indian Knowledge System. The concluding panel discussion between the department's faculties, on the other hand, touched upon the issues of professional and publicational aspects of a researcher's life. This sheer expanse of the topic, all conceived in a cohesive and brief span of a single day, is what made Scholar Day a unique event in the almanac of the department of HSS.

The Research Scholar Day will be back in an expanded format, encompassing more institutes, participants, and collaboration opportunities in the coming days.

Dr. Dibyakusum Ray, from the Department of HSS - Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Ropar, was recently invited as a panel expert for a discussion at CHANDIGARH UNIVERSITY.

This enlightening panel discussion delves into the fundamentals of research methodologies in English studies, such as key approaches to , , , , , and identifying the right .

The discussion sheds light on the challenges and opportunities faced by scholars when navigating the pressures of research and publication, such as the 'publish or perish' pressure, the role of prestigious journals, the pressure on PhD students to publish early, and the overall perspective that students should embrace the publication process as an opportunity for growth and career advancement.

Warmest congratulations to Dr. Karan Rai for successfully defending his thesis titled "Macroeconomic implications of demographic transition" on February 13, 2025.

Our best wishes to him!!