The three successful candidates for the 2010 Pavate Fellowships have been announced.

They are Dr Arpita Basu Roy of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies; Mr Suren Sista of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore; and Dr Sudha Shenoy of Kuvempu University.

Outstanding graduates from India under the age of 45 with a PhD or first class Masters or equivalent were invited to apply for one of three visiting Fellowships in 2010 at the University of Cambridge, with residence at Sidney Sussex College.

The three Dr D.C. Pavate Fellowships are for four-month periods of study at Judge Business School, the Centre for International Studies and either the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) or the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. They are offered annually under an agreement between The Dr D.C. Pavate Foundation, Karnatak University in Dhawad, Southern India and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

 

Dr Arpita Basu Roy was selected as the visiting fellow to the Centre of International Studies after an all-India competition. Mr Suren Sista and Dr Sudha Shenoy were appointed visiting fellows to Judge Business School and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics respectively following a competition open to candidates who had either studied at an educational institution located in the State of Karnataka, India or been employed at any place in the State for a minimum period of five continuous years.

Dr Arpita Basu Roy will be first of the three to take up their Fellowship, in January. Mr Suren Sista’s Fellowship will commence in May with Dr Shenoy’s due to start in September.

D.C. Pavate (1899-1979) was an alumnus of Sidney Sussex College, graduating with a distinguished academic record in Mathematics as a Wrangler in 1927. He was Vice-chancellor of the Karnatak University at Dharwad, India (1954-67), President of the Inter-University Board and a member of the Executive Council of Commonwealth Universities. He received the award of Padma Bhushan from the President of India and was later Governor of the State of Punjab (1967-73).

The Pavate Fellowship scheme was set up in 1999 to mark the centenary of his birth and the Golden Jubilee of Karnatak University with the aim of commemorating the visionary contribution made by him to the University and to the cause of education.

Since then, in the all-India competition there have been nine fellows at the Centre of International Studies (two each from Delhi, Hyderabad, and Kashmir and one each from Assam, Kerala and Karnataka). With the expansion of the programme in 2008 there have been two each from Karnataka at Judge Business School and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

Dr Arpita Basu Roy is a Fellow of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies in Kolkata. Her areas of specific academic interest are Central and South Asia with Afghanistan being the focal point since 2000. She has written extensively on the subject and been invited to speak at a variety of international seminars. She is currently working on a project on ‘Human security in Afghanistan and Strategies for Regional Cooperation’.

Dr Sudha Shenoy, who hails from the Western Ghats in Karnataka, was awarded her doctoral degree for research in the field of Theoretical Physics. She was selected as Research Associate for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India and continued her research at the University of Mysore. She currently lectures at Kuvempu University, Shankaraghatta, Karnataka and has published a number of research papers in International Journals. Her research interests at the moment include quantum information theory, especially quantum entanglement, and additionally, polarization optics. Away from academia, she lists music, the environment and literature as her interests.

Mr Suren Sista is a doctoral candidate at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Science from Osmania University and did a Post Graduate Diploma in Communications at the Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad. Mr Sista has carried out consumer research for two of India’s top market research firms – ORG-MARG Research Pvt. Ltd (now Neilsen) and the Indian Market Research Bureau. He has been a visiting lecturer at ICFAI School of Management, Hyderabad and Manipal Institute of Media and Entertainment, Bangalore. Mr Sista’s research interests lie in the area of Relationship Marketing. During his Fellowship in Cambridge he would like to combine this with his interest in sport – studying the relationship-building measures that sporting organizations undertake to forge stronger bonds with their customers, the strategies they employ and the issues they face in implementing Relationship Marketing. He describes the Pavate Fellowship as:

“A unique opportunity to study a phenomenon that is largely absent in India, and will benefit management practice in sport in the form of lessons from sports brands that are big not just in the UK, but across the world.”


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