19/12/2023
Dear Friends,
Disabled Students Association (DSA, JNU) is a cross-disability rights advocacy organization aiming to create disability discourse in higher education institutions. We aim to ensure higher education institutions such as JNU become more inclusive and accessible to students with and without disabilities by ensuring representation of diverse disabilities with a special focus on students with high support needs.
We are pleased to extend an opportunity where preference will be given to Students with Disability and to students who have an area of interest/or topic concerning the discipline of disability studies intersecting with other major social science and humanities disciplines to get a hands-on experience of Interviews for the PhD programme in JNU.
The Research Scholars who will conduct interviews will be drawn from Central universities such as Jawaharlal Nehru University, and English and Foreign Language University. Hyderabad Central University, Delhi University; from the disciplines of social science such as Political Science, Hindi Literature, Sociology, Economics, History, English Literature, Cultural Studies, Women's Studies etc. The research scholars who will be conducting these mock interviews are been drawn from the discipline of disability studies intersecting with their major discipline of PhD. Although, we understand we have a limited reach in the disciplines of natural sciences and applied science; however, upon receipt of the applications from students with disabilities, we will make our best efforts to reach out to research scholars from these disciplines for further guidance.
We encourage more and more students with disabilities, to get benefited from this opportunity as the university is starting its interviews from 21st December to 28 December 2023.
Kindly fill out the attached Google form, to help us understand your disciplinary background, area of interest, topic of research, methodological leanings etc. We will make our best efforts to support diverse academic and reasonable accommodation needs in this limited time, we expect your kind cooperation in this endeavour to strengthen disability rights discourse in higher education institutions.
Upon filling out the form, we will get back to you for your mock interviews (preferably through Email or your contact no) with a stipulated date and time before your actual interview of date and time through online mode of Google Meet platform.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNwkwyEwMMAb_J1dbBrijZiHcLD8jVSpzyQ5SctUdMKREv0Q/viewform?usp=sf_link
We will try our best to make sure, that your mock interview is done at least one day before your actual interview, although we cannot guarantee that considering the limited resources and constraints of research scholars' academic and personal responsibilities.
Hoping for your kind cooperation.
Thank You,
Disability Rights Long Live!
Nothing About Us Without Us!
Disabled Students Association, JNU
Dear Friends, Disabled Students Association (DSA, JNU) is a cross-disability rights advocacy organization aiming to create disability discourse in higher education institutions. We aim to ensure higher education institutions such as JNU become more inclusive and accessible to students with and witho...