CHRIST (Deemed to be University) focuses on teaching, research and service and offers Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral programmes in humanities, social sciences, sciences, commerce, management, engineering, architecture, education, and law to about 30000 students. The University offers its programmes at six campus locations in Bangalore in Karnataka, at Lavasa in Pune in Maharashtra, and Ghaziabad in Delhi NCR.
The campus has students from all the states and union territories and around 60 different countries. The university publishes six peer-reviewed research journals and has published more than 300 books in Kannada and English. A promoter of interdisciplinary academic work, sports, music and literary activities, it is a nurturing ground for excellence in teaching, research and creative excellence.
The CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Nodal Office at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala is established with the objective of reaching out to academic community and society through Research and Community Oriented activities. Situated in the beautiful ambience of Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala, the Nodal Office is under the administration of CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore.
The Nodal Office is mandated to achieve its objective by undertaking activities that would make a change in academic, social, economic, cultural and environmental fields. These are achieved by organizing conferences, community awareness programmes, seminars, workshops. The Nodal Office further offers Training and Development programmes in building academic and leadership competencies to individuals, organizations and communities.
Speakers
1) Sharang P.
Sharang holds a master’s degree in Ecology and Environmental Science from Pondicherry University. He has worked on various marine conservation and fisheries subjects across India including socio-economic aspects of ghost gear mitigation, elasmobranch fishery, and fisheries economics. He is currently working as a Project Assistant in the Marine Programme at WIldlife Conservation Society – India. In his role, he works with the team to strengthen the conservation of sharks and rays in India by bridging fundamental knowledge gaps on-ground while also catalysing bottom-up change.
2) Kumar Sahayaraju
Kumar is a marine researcher. He holds a masters from the University of Stirling with a prestigious UK Chevening Scholarship. He worked as a Research Assistant for the University of Sussex in a project ‘Forecasting with Fishers’. Being an engineer in Biotechnology, an indigenous fisherman and a scuba diver, he documented the details of seabed ecosystems and natural reefs in the Southeastern Arabian Sea. He’s a founding member of the student-led organisation Coastal Students Cultural Forum (CSCF)
He is working with Dakshin in the Sustainable Fisheries programme in Lakshadweep Islands and pursues doctoral studies at Transdisciplinary University, Bengaluru.
