Department of Social Work

Department of Social Work is established in the year 2012 under the School of Social Sciences. The Department now provides the following programs for students who are passionate in working to create an inclusive and just society that upholds the values of diversity, social justice, and human rights.

Master of Social Work (MSW)
Ph. D. Social Work

The Department endeavors to produce skilled and trained social work professionals who are socially significant, globally competent and locally relevant through creative teaching pedagogy, cutting-edge research and practice.

The Department is renowned for its cutting-edge methods of instruction and fieldwork interventions. With over 15 years of combined teaching and practice experience, the faculty members are extremely qualified. The academic members are consistently involved in conducting cutting-edge research projects and field action initiatives field action projects to develop research-informed policy changes in addition to instructing programs.

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Master of Social Work (MSW)

Programme objectives:

The Principle objective of the MSW Programme is to prepare trained and committed human personnel in the field of social welfare and social work profession. Our graduates are expected to cherish the leadership positions in different field of social work practice, research, teaching, policy making and influencing, administration of welfare, civil and corporate organizations. Few illustrative objectives of programmes are..

1. Understanding and analytical ability: To assist the social work trainee students to develop their understanding and analytical ability of complex social realities, its addressable procedure and integration of social work theories and practice

2. Knowledge and skill enhancement: To help social work trainee students to enhance their knowledge in various domains, sharpen the social skills, acquired promising attitude for ethical practices governed by the various apex bodies like IFSW, ICSW and IAASW.

3. Enabling learning environment: To facilitate the enabling learning environment for learners to make them responsive, proactive and responsible practitioners based on values and ethics of social work practice.

4. Research and intervention skills: Students are expected to undertake significant, relevant evidence base research, practice based social work interventions to demonstrate micro to macro continuum.

5. Independent professional skills for practice: The students are expected to gain the skills for practice to work as independent professional or seek suitable jobs at various positions.

Program Outcome:

To enhance understanding about the socio-political, human rights issues, and to inculcate social work values and attitude among the learners.
To analyze the problems through critical understanding and facilitate appropriate measures through social work interventions.
To develop the knowledge and skills of working with diverse groups of population in various set-ups
To understand the cultural context and to design, develop, and practice, welfare and developmental program
To promote participative, people-centric & ecologically sustainable society to ensure dignity, equity, rights, social justice, and just society.
To develop professional and personal competency, methodological understanding, program intervention skills, functional skills to operate independently, with team work and in organization settings.

Description of the MSW Program:

Program Title: The program shall be called “Master of Social Work (MSW)”.
Duration of the Program: This program shall be conducted in semester pattern and shall be extended over a period of two academic years each consisting of two semesters. Declaration of the result will be in adherence with the university ordinances.
The program Intake: The numbers of students in each year shall not exceed 35 or as decided by the competent authority. It will be encouraged that there is adequate representation of both the genders and the seats will be reserved for the SC/ST/OBC/ other sub-category as per the Government rules and regulation.
Eligibility: Graduation in any discipline from a Recognized University/ college/University established by law securing minimum 50% marks for general as well as OBC students and 45% for SC/ST, or any other criteria fixed by CURAJ.

Syllabus MSW

Ph. D. in Social Work

Highlighting the emerging needs of the society, exploring, analysing the new areas of social living and interaction.
Promote research on various areas of social work practice and interventions.
Strengthening the theoretical perspective, knowledge base of social work.

Syllabus PhD in Social Work

Phd Students

Sr.No.	Name	Enrollment No.	Topic	JRF/Non-JRF	Supervisor	Status
1	Mahesh Choudhary	2013PHDSW01	Comprehensive Assessment of the Functionality of School Mnagement Committies in Kishangarh Block of Rajasthan	JRF	Dr.Shaizy Ahmed	On going
2	Shahnawaz Ahmad	2013PHDSW02	Effectiveness of Psyco-social Intervention on Alcohol and Tobacco Expectancy among Adolscents a Randomised Controlled Trial	JRF	Dr.Atiq Ahmed	Awarded
3	Suman Rana	2014PHDSW04	Positive Youth Development: An Exploration and Intervention in Rural Rajasthan	Non-NET	Dr.Jagdish Jadhav	Awarded
4	Ganesh Choudhary	2014PHDSW01	Psycho-Social Intervention to Reduce Stress and Burden Among Caregivers of Tuberculosis Patients	JRF	Dr.Atiq Ahmed	Awarded
5	Nakkala Harikrishna	2015PHDSW04	Promoting Mental Health Among School Students of Rural Rajasthan through Life Skills	Non-NET	Dr.Atiq Ahmed	On going
6	Manu Priya	2015PHDSW02	Nutritional Needs and Care Giving Practies: An Assessment and Intervention with Children of Sahariya Tribe in Baran District of Rajasthan	JRF	Dr.Shaizy Ahmed	Awarded
7	Mohammed Aamir	2015PHDSW03	A Study on Quality of Life, Social Support Systems of Silicosis Patients of Rajasthan	JRF	Dr.Rajeev MM	Awarded
8	Hari Ram	2016PHDSW02	Changing Livelihood Practices and Social Exclusion among the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups: A Case Study of Pahadi Korawa in Korba District of Chhatisgarh	JRF	Dr.Jagdish Jadhav	Awarded
9	Jyoti Pali	2016PHDSW03	Psychosocial interventions to Promote Menstrual Adjustment, Management and wellbeing among the Adolescent Girls of Rural Rajasthan	JRF	Dr.Atiq Ahmed	Awarded
10	Raveena Kousar	2018PHDSW001	Impact of Border Conflict on the Development of Children in Frontier area of Jammu Region	JRF	Dr.Subhasis Bhadra	Awarded
11	Parul	2019PHDSW002	Constructing Gender Equitable Attitude among Adolscents in a School Setting through Life Skill Education	JRF	Dr.Jagdish Jadhav	On going
12	Priya Rajput	2019PHDSW004	Climate Change and Livelihood Adaptions among Gujjar and Bakarwal Tribes in Rajouri District of Jammu Region	ICSSR	Dr.Jagdish Jadhav	On going
13	Abhilasha Sharma	2020PHDSW001	Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health Practices in Slum of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh	JRF	Dr.Shaizy Ahmed	On going
14	Aishwarya Gautam	2020PHDSW002	Development in Early Childhood among children of stigmatized Parents Enganged in Rag-Picking	JRF	Dr.Subhasis Bhadra	On going
15	Athira Krishnan KT	2020PHDSW003	Interventions among Youth to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) against Women in Kerala	Non-NET	Dr.Atiq Ahmed	On going
16	Twinkal	2020PHDSW006	Psychosocial Well-being of Parents of Children with Intellectual Disability: An Intervention Study in Ajmer	JRF	Dr.Jagdish Jadhav	On going
17	Fateh Lal Bheel	2021PHDSW002	Governance of Pastureland by Village Institutions: A case study in Bhilwara District of Rajasthan	JRF	Dr.Jagdish Jadhav	LoA
18	Haroon Rahsid Wani	2021PHDSW003	Psycho-Social Intervention to Prevent the Mental Health Issues among the Youth of Kashmir	JRF	Dr.Atiq Ahmed	On going
19	Madhu Kumari	2022PHDSW004	Challenges and Prospects in Positive Youth Development among Young care Leavers of Rajasthan in the process of Transition to Independent Living	JRF	Dr.Rajeev MM	On going
20	Vipul Jawalekar	2022PHDSW005	Maternal and Child Health Practices among interstate migrant women workers in stone quarries in Rajasthan	Non-NET	Dr.Rajeev MM	On going
21	Dimpi Handique	2023PHDSW001	To be Finalized	Non-NET	Dr.Dandub Palzor	On going
22	Rahul Vats	2023PHDSW002	To be Finalized	JRF	Dr.Dandub Palzor	On going

Regular

Dr. Atiq Ahmed

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. in Psychiatric Social Work (NIMHANS, Bengaluru), B.A. Philosophy & M.A. Social Work (University of Madras, Chennai), UGC-NET & JRF in Social Work,

atiqahmed_sw@curaj.ac.in

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Dr. D. P. NEGI

Assistant Professor and Head

PhD (Panjab University) M.A. in Social Work (Himachal Pradesh University, PGDHRD (Himachal Pradesh University)

dpnegi_sw@curaj.ac.in

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Prof. Jagdish Jadhav

Professor

M.S.W. (University of Pune) SET (UGC accredited) Ph.D (Bharati Vidyapeeth, Pune)

jagdishjadhav_sw@curaj.ac.in

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Dr. Rajeev M.M.

Assistant Professor

Ph.D, M.S.W, M.A

rajeevmm@curaj.ac.in

9447432273

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Dr. Shaizy Ahmed

Assistant Professor

M.S.W and Ph.D from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.

sahmed_sw@curaj.ac.in

9587260812

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Computer Lab:

Students studying social work have access to a computer lab with internet connectivity currently shared with the department of Public Policy, Law, and Governance (PPLG). There are 24 computers well connected with Wi-Fi available for use by the students, most of which are utilized by researchers and master's students for their dissertations.

Fieldwork:

The Fieldwork is considered as a Signature Pedagogy of Social Work Education. Students are assigned to either concurrent fieldwork (two days per week) or block fieldwork (minimum one month) during each semester. During the summer vacation, the students also look for summer placement. The empirical data used in the research dissertation for the MSW program must be gathered through substantial fieldwork in order to obtain data from the original source. Analogously, in doctoral programs, research researchers conduct fieldwork both during and after coursework. They then gather data from various institutional, organizational, and community settings in accordance with the requirements of their research proposals.

The students of Social Work are regularly engaged in the field work practicum that is an integral component Social Work Curriculum. The students are placed to different organizations, institutions, and communities to have practical exposure. The students are placed in different NGOs as part of concurrent, summer, or block placements (fieldwork). Among the significant NGOs are:

URMUL Trust
Vikalp Sansthan, Udaipur
Seva Mandir, Udaipur
Rajasthan Mahila Kalyan Mandal (RMKM), Ajmer
Gram Vikas Navyuvak Mandal Laporiya (GVNML)
DISHA-ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN SOCIAL SERVICE SOCIETY (RCDSSS), Ajmer
ActionAid
Magic Bus Foundation
Mahila Jan Adhikar Samitii, Ajmer
SOS Children's Villages

Social Work students are assigned to two semesters of fieldwork in the surrounding communities, where they work on a variety of issues, create programs, and provide assistance as needed. Residential rural camps are also arranged for the students as an educational component.

Depending on the subject of their research, Social Work PhD students gather information from a variety of institutional and organizational contexts, including hospitals, schools, child care facilities, government agencies, businesses, and the community.

JALSHALA: An Action Research for Institutional Capacity Building and Community Empowerment through Workshop Series, Funding Agency: Department of Science & Technology, National Council for Science and Technological Communication, GoI.
JALSAMWAD: A WaSH based Communication and Capacity Building Initiatives, Funding Agency: Department of Science & Technology, National Council for Science and Technological Communication. Government of India.
Evaluation of Livelihood Projects for the Leprosy affected Communities, supported by SILF-India (Consultancy project conducted), Funding Agency: SILF (Sasakawa India Leprosy Foundation).
‘Strengthening civil society of the urban poor to participate in planning and monitoring of sanitation services in Indian cities’ supported by the European Union (Main agency supporting project), with Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), New Delhi) research Title, Study of Public and Community Toilets in Ajmer district of Rajasthan.
‘Community- University Engagement in Unnat Bharat Abhiyan and Swachh Bharat Mission- Experiences and Experiment from the Rural villages in Rajasthan’, Funding Agency: Mahatma Gandhi National Council of Rural Education, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Government of India.
‘Unheard voices of silent growing majority: An assessment of Social Security and Health Risks among women migrant workers of Rajasthan’. Funding agency: NHRC, New Delhi. Government of India.
‘Mapping the Customary Practice of Nata Pratha amongst tribal communities of Rajasthan’ Funding Agency: National Commission for Women (NCW), New Delhi, India. Government of India.

Achievement Title

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Awards and Recognitions:

Department ranked at No. 2 among Best Emerging Colleges of Social Work in India by India Today Group-MDRA Best Colleges Ranking 2024.
Exceptional Performance Award in Implementing Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan
Membership: Central Council of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS)

Core Group Committee for Development of Teaching module on Foundation Course Curricula- (NIDM, MoHA, GOI)

Students’ Achievements

UGC-NET/JRF:

Sl. No	Name of Students	Year	UGC JRF/NET
1.	Mr. Sateesh Meena	2012-14	NET
2.	Mr. Parth Sarathi Dehury	2012-14	NET
3.	Mr. Rashmi Ranjan Sahu	2013-15	NET
4.	Ms. Nishta Mishra	2013-15	NET
5.	Mr. Sharwan Kumar	2014-16	NET
6.	Mr. Hariram choudhary	2014-16	NET
7.	Mr. Amit Kumar Poonia	2014-16	JRF
8.	Mr. Ayub Mohammad Shekh	2014-16	NET
9.	Mr. Vikash Tak	2017-19	NET
10.	Ms. Minal Meheta	2018-20	NET
11.	Ms. Jashita Baghri	2018-20	NET
12.	Ms.Yogita Ramadwal	2018-20	NET
13.	Ms. Ayushi Pandey	2020-22	NET
14.	Mr. Adheeb K	2021-23	NET
15.	Mr. Kuldeep Gurjar	2022-24	NET
16.	Ms. Ronak karnawat	2022-24	NET

Students’ Placement and Progression:

Graduate students from the Department are well placed in various Government and Non-Government Organizations like NITI Ayog, Department of Women and Child Development, Delhi, Azim Premji Foundation, ActionAid, Yes India Foundation, Piramal Foundation etc.
Qualified UGC-NET/JRF candidates from every batch who advanced to the next level enrolled in Ph.D. and M. Phil programs at prestigious universities and institutions like University of Delhi, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), IIT Jodhpur, Central Institute of Psychiatry (CIP), etc.