Areas Of Research
University is engaged in cutting-edge research themes in areas as diverse as labor law; health care policies; the analysis of big data; the management of natural resources; climate change; drug and polymer design; protein and DNA bioinformatics; chemical and biological networks; inorganic nanomaterials; materials for energy applications; computational finance, mathematics education and research on treatments for cancer, malaria and other drug-resistant diseases with research findings having been published in high-impact national and international indexed journals.
Particle Physics
Physics
Understanding the dynamics of gluons, the carriers of the strong force, especially in systems where they are extremely densely packed. The strong force is the least well understood part of the...
Security and Privacy
Computer Science and Engineering
The Security and Privacy group at Shiv Nadar University's Computer Science Department is dedicated to performing cutting-edge research in critical areas of network and systems security. This...
Non-Latin Typeface Anatomy and Legibility Research
Design
Typeface anatomy is the study of the structure of letters, its nomenclature of the letter parts and the relation between them. The knowledge of anatomy is essential to understand and recognise a...
Ethnographic Method and Research/Art Inflection
Sociology
Sociology and social anthropology as a discipline have identified themselves with ethnography as a way of doing the discipline. However, can we say that ethnography is the same conceptualisation as...
Nomadism, Borders - Frontier, State
Sociology
How do we understand the perceived fundamental opposition of the nomad and the State? What is the impact of prolonged conflict on the lives of nomads especially in theoretical and geographical grey...
Law, Relationality, Individuation
Sociology
Sociological themes of the individual and collective have shaped the studies of legal pluralism. The assumptions underlying state law is that the individual is atomistic, agentive and bound by social...
Religion, Secularity, Society
Sociology
Religion has been a central area of research within the discipline of Sociology. Sociologists and anthropologists have long been concerned with religious experiences, practices and discourses. While...
Objects, Ecology, Science
Sociology
In sociological investigations there is a growing and well established emphasis to bring the ecological into the forefront, to see how it constitutes and imbues the social. That is, there has been a...
Sound, Music, Silence
Sociology
The archive of recorded music in India is an emerging site of research in new approaches to Social Anthropology. As an ‘archive’, it is capable of fielding many questions around the formation of...