CDS PhD Colloquium-Crossroads 2025

20-22 March 2025

Start

March 20, 2025 - 9:30 am

End

March 22, 2025 - 5:00 pm

Call For Papers and Posters:
First CDS PhD Colloquium – Crossroads 2025

20 -22 March 2025

  • Submission Deadline: 31st January, 2025
  • Paper Selection Announcement: 21st February, 2025

The Centre For Development Studies (CDS) invites applications from PhD scholars to participate in its first PhD Colloquium, 2024. The colloquium offers a platform for PhD scholars across Indian universities to present their work and receive focused feedback and inputs. We welcome studies in the broad area of development from all social science disciplines. Candidates from marginalised identities are especially encouraged to apply.

Colloquium Dates: March 20-22, 2025

Venue: Centre For Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram

Submission deadline: January 31, 2025, 11.59 p.m. IST

Eligibility: Doctoral students registered in Indian universities

Travel support & accommodation: 3rd AC fares for regular express trains by the shortest route (excluding Rajadhani, Duronto, Vande Bharat, and other premium or dynamic pricing trains) will be reimbursed for selected presenters. Accommodation to the selected presenters will be provided for the period of 19th-23rd of March, 2025

Format
Full Paper Sessions: Advanced doctoral scholars are invited to present a paper from their thesis. This will be followed by a detailed discussion led by the discussants and fellow participants. The scholars will also be receiving written comments from the discussants.

Poster Presentation Sessions: Early doctoral scholars are invited to present an overview of their thesis in poster presentations.

Instructions for Full Papers:
Papers should be in PDF format and should include any supplementary materials that are essential for a fuller understanding and appreciation of the paper. All materials should be merged into a single PDF file and named as: <<FULLNAME_FP >>.pdf

Instructions for Posters:
Scholars interested in applying for the poster sessions have to send a preview of their thesis in a single-spaced report format. The word limit for the report is 1000. The selected students will be expected to send a soft copy of their posters by a later specified date and CDS will arrange for a printout of their poster. The File has to be shared in PDF Format saved as : <<FULLNAME_POSTER>>.pdf

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Incase of any queries please contact: crossroads@cds.edu , +91-471- 2774200
For more information on CDS please visit: www.cds.edu

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