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Research
Research is an integral part of faculty development and enables the faculty to keep abreast with the emerging trends along with an additional knowledge to the knowledge bank. The institution promotes research activities by providing:
- Seed grants: Financial assistance to the faculty to meet their operating expenses of a research program or project.
- Incentives: Incentives for publishing in International, National journals & Conference volumes.
- Granting leave of absence for Ph.D. and M. Phil. : Aided staff are encouraged to avail Faculty Improvement Programs for pursuing research as per UGC norms.
- The institution encourages the faculty to participate in International, National and Regional conferences and present papers by providing financial assistance for transport, accommodation and registration.
- Financial support is provided to organize conferences, seminars, workshops and training programs of faculty.
- State of the art infrastructure facilities like well -equipped ICT enabled seminar halls are available to organize conferences, seminars, workshops and training programs.
- An amount of Rs15 lakhs out of Rs 30 lakhs was earmarked in 2010-2011 from CPE grant to establish state of the art research facilities on the campus.
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A centralized research facility with latest equipment, computational facilities, work stations and books and journals is fully functional made available to faculty and students.
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Ann Quest is an online journal initiated by St.Ann’s College for Women that provides publication of articles in all disciplines of sciences, social sciences and humanities. The journal manifests our vision to stimulate intellectual activity, to build the collective knowledge base and to provide the portal to record and disseminate the thoughts and perspectives of scholars and academicians.
www.stannsjournal.com
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well stocked library with all the essential features provides access to reference material through books, journals and e-journals. The facilities at St.Ann’s Library include:
- 20 computers with Internet connectivity to enable users to use e-resource.
- Display of all useful e-resources regularly online and on notice boards.
- Access to more than 2000 e-journals and thousands of books under the N-List programme of INFLIBNET/UGC, EBSCO and PROQUEST. Subscription to the above facility is renewed annually faculty and students are given individual passwords
| 1. Total No. of books | - | 63, 026 |
| 2. Total No. of journals | - | 108 (Indian and International) |
| 72 peer reviewed journals | ||
| 3. Total No. of periodicals/ Magazines | - | 48 |
The other facilities at the library include:
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The institution has got a number of research projects undertaken by the faculty and students being sanctioned by UGC, CPE, College management and from other agencies.
| S.No. | Funded by | Category | Number of projects |
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| 1. | UGC | Faculty | 3 |
| 2. | CPE | Faculty | 7 |
| 3. | Institution | Faculty | 7 |
| 4. | SELF | Faculty | 3 |
| 5. | CPE | Student | 16 |
| 6. | Institution | Student | 26 |
| Total | 62 | ||
On going research projects:
| S.No. | Project title |
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| 1. | Collaborative research “Assessment of Water quality and heavy metal toxicity in surface water of Nallacheruvu, Uppal,Hyderabad” - Dr.Sr. K. Anthonamma & Mrs. Usha Rani –Collaborative Research with Dr. Sabita Raj, Head, Dept. of zoology, Nizam College, Hyderabad |
| 2. | Interdisciplinary and Collaborative research project by, Dr A Priyamvada Devi, Dept. of zoology and Ms Aparna, department of Genetics on Genetic Epidemiology of Breast Cancer’. |
| 3. | Dept. of Zoology Interdisciplinary research project with Nutrition- Impact of Dietary supplementation on Anemia in college students. |
| 4. | Dr. K. Radha Dept. of Chemistry and Mrs. Sarojini, Dept. of Hindi are working on the project “ Study of water quality parameters in and around religious places in twin cities and other places |
| 5. | Mrs. D.V.Sharada Dept. of Commerce Collaborative project with Zen securities Pvt. Ltd. On financial literacy and planning ; Public and Private sector employees of Andhra Pradesh. |
| 6 | Ms. Manjula Vittal Rao, Department of French and Ms. Lata Subramanya Dept. of Psychology - A interdisciplinary Research Project “ An exploratory study to measure and identify factors affecting adjustment in college students at entry level”. |
Minor Research Projects
| S.No. | Project title |
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| 1. | Dr. Margaret, Dept. of Botany and Dr. Sneha Gogte, Dept. of Microbiology are jointly working on an interdisciplinary, collaborative Minor research project –characterization of Withania somnifera in collaboration with CIMAP. |
| 2. | Mrs.D.V. Sharada , Dept. of Commerce Corporate Board Diversity & Women independent directors. |
| 3. | Mrs. Bala, Dept. of Library and Information Science, Mrs.Radhai Department of Computer Sciece and Ms.Ratna of Library and Information Science Impact of Information Technology on College Libraries |
Seven more minor research projects are also initiated and were funded by the management
