TERI School of Advanced Studies - Masters and Ph.D in Delhi

All students admitted to the Ph.D. programme are required to go through coursework for one year. During this pre-Ph.D. programme, students will be exposed and orientated to the interdisciplinary nature of issues in the areas of environmental studies and natural resources management. They must develop a basic knowledge of economics, social science, policy and research methodology in addition to a sound knowledge of ecological/environmental science. After successfully completing their pre-Ph.D. courses, students are registered for Ph.D.
Admissions are open through the year. However, applications will be considered until 15 June and 31 October for admissions in the semesters commencing July and January each year.

1. No. of seats available of PhD admission in September 2020: 03

2. Preferred areas of research interest:

• Geospatial science for Environment, disaster management, environmental health
• Biodiversity and Conservation. Forest Landscape Restoration. Impacts of pollution on biodiversity.

3.Admission

Admission will be made based on written tests and interview. A weightage of 70% to the written tests and 30% to the performance in interviews shall be given. Written test will have two papers of equal weightage. Paper I will be on ‘Research Methodology’ which will be a common paper for admission in all departments of the University. Paper II will be department/subject specific.

Syllabus for Research Methodology

Syllabus for Paper II

Biodiversity and Conservation : Fundamentals of Ecology. Concept of Ecosystems, functioning services and assessment techniques. Significance of Biodiversity Conservation and monitoring techniques . Concept of Biodiversity ‘Hotspots’, Ecoregions and ‘Key Biodiversity Areas’. The IUCN Red listing process for conservation categorization. Protected Areas in India and its planning. National and Global Legislations for Biodiversity Conservation. Global Conventions: CBD, Ramsar, UNCCD, CITES and CMS. Land degradation and Forest landscape Restoration. Sustainable Forest management and Forest Certification.

Geospatial science for environment: Basics of remote sensing, electromagnetic radiation, radiation laws, platforms and sensors, resolutions, multispectral scanning principle, spectral signature, visual interpretation, digital image processing, vegetation indices, basics of GIS, data models, projection, datum, spatial reference system, spatial queries, geoprocessing, spatial analysis, remote sensing and GIS integration, basics of statistics, measure of center, measure of variation.

For queries

Contact Dr Sudipta Chatterjee (s.chatterjee@terisas.ac.in) for any query related to PhD admission in Department of Natural Resources.

The Pre-Ph.D course requirements shall be as follows :-

(i) In order to overcome any deficiency in the breadth of fundamental training for advanced work, several courses are offered across disciplines taught at the Deemed University. Such courses would include those at Masters level or could be special ones created only for the doctoral student/s.

(ii) The courses will be offered by TERI SAS.

(iii) The credit assigned to the Ph.D course work shall be a minimum of 8 credits and a maximum of 16 credits.

(iv) Four credits shall be assigned to one or more courses on Research Methodology which could cover areas such as quantitative methods, computer applications, research ethics and review of published research in the relevant field, training, field work, etc. One course on Technical Writing (2 credits) will be a mandatory course for all Ph.D students. Other courses shall be advanced level courses preparing the students for Ph.D degree.

(v) The course requirement will be determined by the DRC (Department Research Committee) on the recommendations of the SRC (Student Research Committee) after considering the student?s background in relation to the proposed topic of research.

(vi) Grades in the course work, including research methodology courses shall be finalized after a combined assessment by the SRC and the Department and the final grades shall be communicated to Registrar.

(vii) The minimum CGPA requirement will be 7.0.

(viii) The pre-Ph.D course work must be completed within the first two semesters and the first three semesters of joining the programme by full-time and part-time students, respectively.

Ph.D programme shall be for a minimum duration of three years, including course work and a maximum of six years. This may be waived by the Academic Council only in extremely exceptional cases when recommended by the Department Research Committee.

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