The Deanery of Research and Development in Bishop Heber College functions with the motto, “Sensitize! Synthesize!! Synergize!!!. It inculcates and encourages a rich research culture among its members of faculty and scholars.
The College has a research forum “Synergy” comprising the research scholars of all Departments and it addresses issues related to researchers, besides promoting research culture.
We envision a supportive environment for all scholars that enables transformative discoveries and innovation, produces new knowledge, and supports creative activities to benefit the institution, the nation, and the world.
The mission is to advance in research, scholarship, and innovation across the entire globe. We provide the college community with comprehensive, solution-oriented services and infrastructure to support research, dissemination, and translation of discoveries to maximize impact. By leading the growth of our college research enterprise and securing new resources for our scholars, we contribute to new knowledge, discovery, and innovation in institutionally, nationally, and globally.
Bishop Heber College has earnestly strived to be recognized as a world class research hub that constantly encourages novel ideas and solutions through exploration. The Deanery strives to inculcate and encourage a rich research culture among its members of faculty and scholars. This policy for promotion of Research serves as the guidance to undertake research activities for the benefit of all its stakeholders and the society at large. The policy, adhering to Bharathidasan University norms, shall apply to all the researchers and scholars of the college: both Aided and Self-Financing stream. The Heberian research policy provides a comprehensive direction to the members of faculty and scholars across various disciplines for the creation of new knowledge.
The specific objective of the policies are
Bishop Heber College believes in providing a firm foundation, expertise, technical support, resources, programmes and coordination across the different departments for researchers through diverse schemes, periodical appraisals and rewards.
Bishop Heber College has an exclusive Deanery for Research and Development to systematically appraise, promote, motivate and guide the staff and the scholars to get involved in research activities. The College is dedicated to guaranteeing a free academic environment to conduct research, to teach, to speak and to publish, subject to the norms and standards of scholarly inquiry, without interference or penalty, wherever the search for truth, knowledge, scholarship and/or understanding may lead.
In Bishop Heber College, almost all the Departments are recognized as Research Centres by the Bharathidasan University. Research activities of the college are guided and monitored by the following Committees: