Centre for Women Studies
Pioneering feminist theory, policy and praxis; the Centre publishes the annual Banasthali Women Studies Review.
Research
Research at Banasthali.
Doctoral programmes across every faculty, six standing research centres and roughly five hundred full-time scholars — most of them women, most of them in fields where women are historically under-represented.
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22 doctoral disciplines
PhD supervision across every faculty; joint supervision across faculties encouraged.
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6 research centres
Women Studies, Bioinformatics, AI & Data, Textiles & Design, Rural Development, Peace Studies.
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₹42 Cr active funding
Extramural grants from UGC, DBT, DST, SERB, ICSSR and industry sponsors — as of 2025.
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480+ scholars
Full-time doctoral scholars across the university, roughly a third fellowship-supported.
Centres
Six standing research centres.
Centre for Bioinformatics
Genomics, structural bioinformatics and computational biology; shared instrumentation with Bioscience.
Centre for AI & Data
Applied machine learning across health, education and language, with a Rajasthan-language NLP focus.
Centre for Textiles & Design
Weaving, printing and traditional-craft research feeding the B.Des. and M.Des. programmes.
Centre for Rural Development
Field-first work with villages across Tonk district on livelihoods, water, health and schooling.
Centre for Peace Studies
Cross-faculty programme on non-violence, conflict transformation and community reconciliation.
Doctoral
PhD 2026 · call open.
The Vidyapith invites applications for its doctoral programmes across 22 disciplines for the 2026 cohort. Applications close 31 January 2026; the entrance is a two-part test (subject knowledge + research aptitude) followed by an interview at the parent faculty.
- +Full-time and part-time tracks
- +Joint supervision across faculties encouraged
- +Fellowship support for the top decile
- +Coursework, comprehensive, thesis — the standard three-phase structure
PhD applications
Applications close 31 January 2026. Entrance test on 22 February; interviews from 15 March.
PhD prospectusPublications
Output in 2024.
2024342Peer-reviewed papers
202458Books & chapters
202423Patents filed
202472Conferences hosted
Departmental publication lists are updated quarterly under /research/publications.
Research services
What the office does.
Research ethics
The Institutional Ethics Committee reviews human-subjects and animal-subjects research monthly.
Grants office
Pre-award and post-award support for extramural funding across UGC, DBT, DST, SERB and ICSSR.
Doctoral fellowships
UGC-JRF, ICSSR fellowships and a smaller pool of internal fellowships allocated on merit.
Industry collaboration
Sponsored projects and consulting through the Office of Industry Relations.