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Updated on 22 Aug, 2022

Dr. Suhas Shetgovekar

Chairperson

Prof. Suhas Shetgovekar is presently Professor with Discipline of Psychology, IGNOU, New Delhi. She joined IGNOU as a Reader in December, 2010. She earlier served as a Course Director at the Abbé Faria Post Graduate Department of Psychology, St. Xavier’s College, Mapusa, Goa and has been visiting faculty/ resource person for institutions like Goa Institute of Management, National Institute of Construction Management and Research, Goa and Central Board for Worker’s Education, Goa, ICFAI, Goa, Saraswat College, Goa, Post Graduate Department of Commerce, St. Xavier’s College, Goa, V.V Giri National Labour Institute, Noida. She has conducted numerous training programmes on behavioural skills in various industries and organisations in Goa. She has also conducted sessions on research and statistics in IGNOU, JNU and DU. She is on editorial team of IGNOU Journal of Open Learning published by IGNOU. She completed her MA in Psychology (Gold Medalist) and Ph. D in Psychology from Karnatak University, Dharwad, Karnataka. She has been actively involved in teaching psychology, management and related subjects in varied institutions. She has also worked in the area of family counselling and women related issues.She has presented and published papers on topics pertaining to health modernity, women related issues, couple relationship, ethics in psychological research, culture and industrial and organisational psychology. her prominent publications include Textbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistics (Coauthor) and Introduction to Social Psychology by SAGE

EDUCATION:
Doctor of Philosophy (subject) year	Name of the University. Karnatak University Discipline: Psychology Doctoral Research Topic: Health Modernity Assessment: A Case Study for Educational Intervention Academic Achievement: if any
Master of Arts (Subject) year	Name of the university: Karnatak University Discipline: Psychology Dissertation Topic: - Academic Achievement: Gold Medalist/ Prof. Patil cash prize
Bachelor of Arts (Subject) year	Name of the university: Goa University Discipline: Psychology Academic Achievement:

WORK EXPERIENCE:

At IGNOU

S.No.	Designation	Department	Duration
S.No.	Designation	Department	From	To
1.	Reader	Discipline of Psychology	6th December 2010	5th December 2013
2.	Associate professor	Discipline of Psychology	6th December 2013	5th December 2016
3	Professor	Discipline of Psychology	6th December 2016	till date

Other work experience

Name of the Institution	Position held	From	To
Abbe Faria Post Graduate Department of Psychology, St. Xavier’s College, Goa	Lecturer	1st August, 2003	30th June, 2009
Abbe Faria Post Graduate Department of Psychology, St. Xavier’s College, Goa	Reader/ Course Director	1st July, 2009	30th November, 2010
Post Graduate Department of Commerce, St. Xavier’s College, Goa	Visiting faculty for Human Resource Management	2nd July, 2006	30th November, 2006
Goa Institute of Management, Goa	Visiting Faculty for Organisational Behaviour Course for PGPMI programme	17th November, 2008	22nd November, 2008
ICFAI National College, Goa	Visiting Faculty for MBA	-	-
National Institute of Construction Management and Research, Goa	Visiting Faculty for Managerial Skills Workshop-I for Advanced Construction Management 2nd Batch programme	-	-
Central Board for Workers’ Education, Goa	Resource Person	-	-
Sridora Caculo College of Commerce and Management Studies, Goa	Part time lecturer for Stress Management for BBA Students	9th Februar, 2006	18th March, 2006

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS: 3 (authored) + 1 (edited) = 4

RESEARCH PAPERS PUBLISHED:

Research Papers in Peer Reviewed Journals: 5
Chapters in Books: 3 +1 spotlight
Papers presented at International/ National Conferences: 16

UNITS WRITTEN: 16

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODY/ STATUTORY BODY (INTERNAL/ EXTERNAL):

Membership of Professional body/ Statutory body	Name of statutory body/ institution/	Period
Member	Standing Committee for Research of School Board of SOSS	2012 till date
Member	CBCS Standing Committee of SOSS	2015 till date
Member	School Board of SOHS	2012 to 2014
Member	Core Group for Drafting SGAI Question Booklet-2014	2013
Executive Member	National Academy of Psychology	December 2014- 2016
Member	School Board of SOSW	February 2016 to February 2018
Member	School Board of SOSS	October 2017

Official Address:
Director,
School of Social Sciences ,
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU),
Maidan Garhi,
New Delhi - 110068
New Delhi, India