A. K. Sharma
Professor of Sociology
Department of Humanities & Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology

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Research Guidance

Post-doctoral Work: 

Dr. Rohini Ghosh, Level and Determinants of Child Mortality in a Periurban Area, study supported by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi for three years 2007-2010.

Dr. Namrata Gupta, Women in Science, study supported by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi for the period 2003- 2005.

Ph. D. Degree Awarded: 

Sonal Mobar, Measuring Stigma against HIV/AIDS among those living with Tuberculosis in Ladakh Region of Jammu & Kashmir, December 2011.

Nirmali Goswamy, Legitimation of Languages: Hindi and its “Others” in a School of Banaras, August 2011 (jointly with Dr. Amman Madan).

Mohd. Ashraf Bhat, Identities in Transition: Changing Language Roles in Kashmiri Speech Community, 2010 (jointly with Dr. T. Ravichandran).

Ashish Kumar Mishra, Self Image, Actualization, Risk and Coping Strategies: A Study of MSM in the Wake of HIV Epidemic in Mumbai, December 2008. 

Pradeep Swarnakar, Evironmental Beliefs and Practices: A Comparative Study of two Districts of Rural West Bengal in India, one Suffering from Water Contamination and another from Water Scarcity, August 2008.

Mamata Misra, Conceptualization of Health and Illness among the Bondos in Orissa, June 2007 (jointly with Dr. Shikha Dixit).

D. Pattnaik, Social Representations and the Life of the Disabled in India, (jointly with  Dr. Munmun Jha), January 2007.

P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan, Software Work and Workforce: An Empirical Study in Silicon Valley of India, January 2004.

Namrata Gupta, Women in Academic Science: A Study of Social and Work Environment at Institutes of Higher Learning in Science and Technology in India, IIT Kanpur, May, 2002.

Shailendra Dwivedi, Understanding the Voluntary Sector: A Study of two Voluntary Development Organisations (VDOs), I.I.T. Kanpur, 2000 (jointly with Dr. R. S. Misra).

Manju Singh, The Quality of Social Life: An Integrated Perspective on Development, I.I.T. Kanpur, 1995.

Clymes Augustine, A Sociological Inquiry into the New Social Movements: A Study of Women, Ecology and Prohibition Movements in Kerala, I.I.T. Kanpur, 1995.

Motilal Dash, Rural Development and Fulfilment of Basic Needs: A Study Based on Three Villages of Madhya Pradesh, I.I.T. Kanpur, 1993 (jointly supervised with Dr. R. Pandey).

Irfan Khan, Fertility Behaviour and Birth Control among Muslims in India: A Study of a Village in Bihar State, I.I.T. Kanpur, 1992.

Jayant Upadhyay, Fertility Patterns and Family Planning Acceptance among Slum Dwellers in Kanpur City, I.I.T. Kanpur, 1992.

Abhash Panda, Contemporary Social Movements in India: A Study of their Genesis, Processes and Implications, I.I.T. Kanpur, 1988.

Asutosh Saxena, Rural Development and Elite Participation: a Socio-Political Study of Two Villages in West U.P., I.I.T. Kanpur, 1987.

Ph.D. Work under Progress: 

T. Shukkoor, Palliative Health Care in Kerala.

Aditya Mohanty, Urban Governance in India: A Study of Residents Welfare Associations in Delhi (jointly with Dr. Ursila Rao, UNSW, Sydney).

Vibha Dixit, Gender Politics of Biomedicine: The Social Construction of Menopausal Ageing among Middle-Aged Women.

Sarvendra Yadav, Class and Educational Preferences (jointly with Prof. Amman Madan).

Amithy Jasrotia, Sociology of Education.   

M. Tech. Degree Awarded from Industrial and Management Engineering Department: 

Pranvendra Kumar, Critical Issues Related to Human Resource Planning and Management in Army with Special Reference to the Corps of EME, IME Department, Feb. 2003.

International Students: 

Geoff Galgon, An Investigation into Improved Chulha Implementation and Policy in Uttar Pradesh, India, A Project Report Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Technology, California Institute of Technology, under Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships Programme (SURF), June - August 2006.

Diploma Awarded: 

Dr. O. P. Misra, Critical Analysis of Health-Care System of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, for award of Diploma in Hospital & Health Management, Academy of Hospital Administration, New Delhi, 1995.

B. Tech./M. Sc. Projects in Department of Mathematics and Statistics:   

Among others,

Arpan Das, Debadrita Choudhury, Kaushik Joarder, and Sourav Das, A Study on Migration from IIT Kanpur, Project, M. Sc. 2 Years, 2003-04. 

Manoranjan Kumar, Socio-demographic Survey of Tharu Community of Dang Deokhiri District (Nepal), Project Integrated M.Sc. Statistics, 1999 (jointly with Dr. G. K. Shukla).