Academic Qualification
- PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Patna
Experience
- Manipal University Jaipur
- Patna Women’s College, Patna
Worked at
- Worked as a senior Knowledge Consultant at A N Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna
Career Highlights & Awards:
- 2010 | Junior Research Fellow (Sociology) Distinction
- Reviewer for Journal, Science & Education, Published by Springer Nature. ISSN: 0926-7220
Research Areas
- Public Policy; Science, Technology, and Society (STS); Social Action Research
Publication and Books
Publications:
- Kumar, R. & Singh, S. (2018). Aspects of Science Education in India: A Synoptic Review and Possible Directions for the Future. Current Science. 114 (09). DOI: 10.8520/cs/v114/i09/1825-1828 ISSN: 0011-3891
- R. & S. Singh (2018). Towards Development of a Scale Based on the Concept of the Science Field in Indian Society. In S. Ladage & S. Narvekar (Eds.), epiSTEME 7, Homi Bhabha Center of Science Education and Research (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) Mumbai 2018. ISBN: 978–93–86301–75–8 https://episteme7.hbcse.tifr.res.in/proceedings
- Kumar, R. & Singh, S. (2020). “Education in the Age of Knowledge Society: The Growing Proximities of Changing Dynamics of Knowledge, Science, and Society” In Book, Changing Perspective of Education in India, edited by Dr. U. Singh and P. Ranjan. ISBN: 978-81-94426-93-6
Conference Paper Presentations:
- Presented a Paper titled, “Understanding New Sociology of Education in the Post-Covid World” in the International Conference on Sociology of Education in the time of Covid-19 pandemic, organised by University of Science & Technology Meghalaya in association with University of Lucknow in 2021.
- Presented a paper titled, “Reporting the Conceptualisation, Measurement, and Validation of a Sociological Construct called “The Science Field” for the Public Understanding of Science in Indian context at International Conference on Applied Scientific Computational Intelligence using Data Science (ASCI-2020) in 2020.
- Presented a paper titled, “Being Scientific Mode of Education at the verge of STS and Science Education” at Annual Conference of Society for Social Studies of Science at Sydney, Australia in August 2018.
- Presented a paper titled, “Science, Education, and the Public: A New Approach to Assessment of Scientific Literacy” at “Science in Public Conference 2018” at Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK in December 2018.
