Professor C. Raghava Reddy, Head, Centre for Knowledge, Culture and Innovation Studies, School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad (UoH) is nominated as Member of the Advisory Committee for the Impact Assessment and Public Policy Division on the National Innovation Foundation-India (NIF), an autonomous establishment beneath the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
Prof. C. Raghava Reddy
This recognition highlights Prof. Reddy’s experience in science-technology-society interfaces, and institutional mechanisms for inclusive improvement—areas central to CKCIS’s mission of exploring how information, tradition, and innovation intersect to handle societal challenges.
Dr. C. Raghava Reddy is a Professor within the Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad. With experience in Science, Technology and Society Studies (STS), Sociology of Disability, and Sociology of Organizations, he has made important contributions via analysis on agricultural information manufacturing, incapacity inclusion, and technology-society interfaces.
He has revealed extensively in reputed journals like Sociological Bulletin, Gender, Technology and Development, and Indian Anthropologist. Key works embody analyses of incapacity discourse, girls’s labour in plant tissue tradition, and social constructivist views on crop sciences.
Prof. Reddy has led consultancy and main funded initiatives, together with UGC-Major Research Projects on contesting crop sciences and enabling the otherwise abled in rural Andhra Pradesh. He at present coordinates the DST-Centre for Policy Research at UoH and the Centre for Knowledge, Culture and Innovation Studies.
The National Innovation Foundation–India (NIF) is an autonomous establishment of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, devoted to nurturing grassroots improvements and excellent conventional information. NIF undertakes actions associated to the scouting and documentation of improvements, worth addition and their linkage to worth chains via entrepreneurship improvement and dissemination. Systematic affect evaluation and knowledgeable public coverage engagement are important to exhibit outcomes, generate proof, assist decision-making, and inform coverage formulation at nationwide and sub-national ranges.
The NIF has constituted the Advisory Committee on Impact Assessment and Public Policy to offer strategic steerage and professional recommendation to strengthen NIF’s affect evaluation frameworks, methodologies, and coverage engagement efforts, and to boost using proof for programme enchancment and coverage advocacy.
The composition of the Committee is as follows:
- Prof. Madhav Govind, Professor, School of Social Sciences, Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi – Chairman
- Prof. C. Raghava Reddy, Professor, Department of Sociology, Head- Centre for Knowledge, Culture and Innovation Studies, Coordinator- DST CPR at UoH, University of Hyderabad- Member.
- Prof. Sujit Bhattacharya, Former Chief Scientist and Dean Policy Research at CSIR-NIScPR and Professor in AcSIR (Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research) -Member.
- Dr. Kunal Sinha, Associate Professor, Department of Studies in Science Technology and Innovation Policy, School of Social Sciences, Central University of Gujarat, Vadodara- Member.
- Dr Sharique Hassan Manazir – Assistant Professor – Public Policy and Digital Democracy, Kautilya School of Public Policy, GITAM University, Hyderabad – Member.
- Shri Mahesh Patel, Scientist G – Member Convener
Congratulations and greatest needs to Professor C. Raghava Reddy.