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Assistant Professor & Coordinator

Centre for Studies in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (CSSTIP), School of Social Sciences

Qualifications


  • PhD

Areas of Interest/Specialization


  • Sociology of science and technology, History and philosophy of science, Public engagement with science and technology, media and science communication, science in popular culture, science education, regional modernities

Experience


  • Eleven years in teaching and research

Awards & Honours


  • Not Available

Best Peer Reviewed Publications


  • Shiju Sam Varughese. Contested Knowledge: Science, Media, and Democracy in Kerala. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2017.[BOOK]
  • Satheese Chandra Bose and Shiju Sam Varughese (Eds.). Kerala Modernity: Ideas, Spaces and Practices in Transition. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2015.(Paperback edition, 2017). [BOOK]
  • Shiju Sam Varughese. "Where are the Missing Masses? The Quasi-publics and Non-publics of Technoscience", Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, Vol. 50, No. 2, 2012, pp. 239-254.
  • Shiju Sam Varughese. "Media and Science in Disaster Contexts: Deliberations on Earthquakes in the Regional Press in Kerala, India", Spontaneous Generations: A Journal of History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 5, No.1, 2011.
  • "The State-Technoscience Duo in India: A Brief History of a Politico-Epistemological Contract", in Axel Jansen, Andreas Franzmann and Peter Münte (eds.). Legitimizing Science: National and Global Publics (1800-2010). Frankfurt & New York: Campus Verlag, pp. 137-156, 2015

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books


  • Shiju Sam Varughese (ed.). Special issue on 'Reimagining Kerala's Engagements with Modernity', Malayalam Research Journal vol. 13, no. 1 (January-April), 2020
  • Shiju Sam Varughese. "Expertise at the 'Deliberative Turn': Multiple Publics and the Social Distribution of Technoscientific Expertise", Dialogue: Science, Society, Scientists, 06 February 2020 (Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru).
  • Varughese, Shiju Sam. 2019. "From 'Women in Science' to 'Gendering of Knowledge': A Review Essay on Feminist Studies of Science in India", Social Change vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 713-719.

International Collaboration/Consultancy


  • Not Available

Patents (If any)


  • Not Available