| For over a couple of decades, Department of Futures Studies at University of Kerala has played a significant role in imparting Futures Studies education, research and consultancy services. The department was established by the UGC in the academic year 1990-91 acknowledging the growing importance of Futures Studies as an academic discipline. Ever since its inception, the department has recognized and maintained the interdisciplinary, also the multidisciplinary, character of the field such as Futures Studies. Currently, the department is offering academic programmes, interdisciplinary M. Phil. in Futures Studies, M. Tech. (Technology Management), UGC innovative programme Post Graduate Diploma in Knowledge Management apart from Ph. D. programme. As well as its own faculty with international exposure and diverse backgrounds, the department draws academics and expertise from other research institutes as well as industry offering students a good choice. Many of the alumni are currently occupying the middle and top level positions in various multi-national companies, state and central government departments and organizations and many are employed abroad. The department is carrying out interdisciplinary research in various fields including Technology Management and Forecasting, System Dynamics, Mathematical Modeling and Simulation, Knowledge Management and Discrete Mathematics etc.. The research contributions of department in the area of Discrete Mathematics have attracted international attention. The Department has been partnering with University of Maribor, Slovenia and Erasmus University, Netherlands and is having exchange programs for the last seven years. The department is also actively engaged in consultancy services. In order to facilitate the service, a consultancy centre named Consultancy Group for research and Forecasting (C-GRAF) was established in 1992. The prime objective of the centre is to undertake socially relevant consultancy works catering to the needs of the central and state governments and the organizations/institutes under its purview. Right from its inception C-Graf has successfully completed several interdisciplinary projects for various international funding agencies like World Bank, ADB, JBIC, FHI apart from other state and central government bodies | Project Fellow
Applications are invited for the post of a Project Fellow to work in a UGC Major Research Project. Click Here for more details. Admissions
Admission procedure started for UGC Innovative Programme Post Graduate Diploma in Knowledge Management (PGDKM) - Last date -16thof November 2012 - details here - Application form here
Recent Events:
1. International Workshop on Graph Products: Structure and Algorithms -February 7- 8, 2012 Upcoming Event:
 Indo - Slovenia Conference on Graph Theory and Applications (Indo-Slov- 2013) - February 22-24, 2013 Tentative Speakers: - S. Arumugam, Kalasalingam University, Krishankoil, India
- R. Balakrishnan, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India
- Boštjan Brešar, University of Maribor, Slovenia
- Jérémie Chalopin, LIF, Aix-Marseille Université, France
- Victor Chepoi, LIF, Aix-Marseille Université, France
- S.A. Choudam, formerly of IIT Madras, Chennai, India
- Paul Dorbec, CNRS Université de Bordeaux, France
- Mike Henning, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
- Wilfried Imrich, Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria
- Sandi Klavžar, University of Ljubljana and University of Maribor, Slovenia
- Ramesh Krishnamurti, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Henry Martyn Mulder, Erasmus University, Netherlands
- Yoomi Rho, University of Incheon, South Korea
- Peter Stadler, University of Leipzig, Germany
- Subir Kumar Ghosh, School of Technology and Computer Science, TIFR, Mumbai
- N. Narayanan, Université Paris-Sud, France
News:
Date of Admission - 23 August 2012 -
Time: 10:30 A. M. for selected candidates and 12 noon for those in the waiting list.
Rank list of candidates written the admission test will be published shortly.
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