Shaji S

UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD

Profile

Dr.S.Shaji is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Hyderabad. In addition, he has been a consultant to UNICEF and Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), Hyderabad. Dr. Shaji was Guest Professor at the Institute of Political and Social Studies, University of Wurzburg, Germany (April-June, 2012 and November-December 2014). He was a US Foreign Policy Fellow at SUSI Programme at Bard College New York, US in June-August 2013 Dr. Shaji was Deputy Coordinator, Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS), Department of Political Science and the Academic Coordinator of Study in India Programme (SIP), an innovative internationalization initiative at University of Hyderabad. As part of his assignment at SIP, he designed and conducting customized courses on Contemporary India for participants from the Universities in the United States and Nordic countries. His areas of research interest include International Relations and Public Policy. Within these broad areas, he works and publishes on specific themes such as India’s relations with developing states, especially from the Afro-Asian region, Technology Transfer, Foreign Policy of Developing States and Urban Water Governance and Regulation. He teaches courses such as India in World Affairs, Foreign Policies of Emerging Powers and Government and Politics of South Asia for post-graduate students at the Department of Political Science. Dr. Shaji has completed research projects with the support of grants from organizations like ICSSR and UGC, New Delhi and was part of an International Project at University of Hyderabad on Internationalization and Virtual Exchange: Borderless between EU and Asian Countries, Erasmus+ CBHE, funded by European Union as well as a project, sanctioned by ICSSR, New Delhi on Energy Cooperation between India and Africa. Dr. Shaji has also been part of the committees on formulating Research and Development (R&D) and Internationalisation policies at University of Hyderabad.