Project Director for ICSSR - Ministry of HRD funded project.

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1 Summary: Dr. Shalini Upadhyay Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences BITS-PILANI, K.K. Birla Goa Campus NH-17B Zuarinagar, Goa , India (O): , (M) Experience: 18+ years of research, consultancies, mentoring and teaching Project: Project Director for ICSSR - Ministry of HRD funded project. Patent(s): 1. Method and System for Generating Spiritual Intelligence and Research Performance Indices. Complete Filing System and Method for user friendly Videoconferencing Communication. Provisional filing 2015 PhD Supervision: Candidates (02) Publications: 1. Books (2 Nos) peer reviewed publication Journal/Conferences of repute. Awards: 1. Recipient of Gold Medal for securing first position in the University merit list in M.A. examination. 2. Recipient of Certificate of Excellence for securing first position in the University merit list in B.A. examination. Specializes in, providing training of Oral and Written Communication Skills for Business Executives. identifying innovative personalized techniques like group activities and assignments for teaching courses such as Effective Public Speaking and Business & Professional Communication designing ways to make student understand and achieve competency levels in speaking by finding out their root cause of the problems. motivating students to identify problems associated to speaking thereby overcoming them and improving the overall personality of students. writing Scholarly - research articles, books, patent and grant proposals. formulating case studies for underpinning research in the areas of and Business & Professional Communication, Spiritual Intelligence, Effective Public Speaking and Soft Skills.

2 Education Ph.D (English Literature), 2004, Rani Durgawati Vishwavidhayalaya Jabalpur. M.A. (English Literature), 1998, Rani Durgawati Vishwavidhayalaya Jabalpur. (Gold Medalist) B.A. with English Literature, 1996, Rani Durgawati Vishwavidhayalaya Jabalpur.(University Topper) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE BITS PILANI, K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa, India Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Assistant Professor / December 2005 Till Date. Instructor-In-Charge: Technical Communication Business Communication Technical Report Writing. Personality Development. Effective Public Speaking Management Communication Special Programme/Courses Effective Communication Spiritual Intelligence Effective Public Speaking Personality Development. Creative Thinking Soft Skills Professional Presentations Administrative Task Nucleus member, Research Consultancy and Educational Development Division, BITS Pilani Goa Campus ( ). Convener: Doctoral Research Committee of HSS, BITS Pilani, Goa Campus Convener: Student Faculty Council of HSS, BITS Pilani, Goa Campus Editorial Team Member: BITSCAN, a half yearly magazine of BITS Pilani, Goa Campus Shri Ram Institute Of Technology, Jabalpur(M.P.) Department of Humanities Asst. Prof. Head / October 2001 August 2005 Schedule management, and result analysis. Faculty Orientation and supervision. Mentoring Students- career guidance and placement.

3 Consultant and counselor for engineering graduates & Masters of Computer Applications. Organizer of a state level workshop on Non-verbal Communication held at S.R.I.T., Jabalpur. Course module designer for personality development. Cultural in charge of the institute s extra-curricular activities. Hitkarini College Of Engineering & Technology, Jabalpur(M.P.) Department of Humanities Lecturer-Head / July 2000 October 2001 Instructor for Communication Skills. Instructor for Business Communication (M.C.A.). Cultural in-charge of the institute s extra-curricular activities. Hawabagh Women s College, Jabalpur(M.P.) Lecturer / August 1998 July 2000 Instructor for Literary Criticism. Instructor for Indian Writing in English. Instructor for History of English Literature Instructor for English Drama RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Membership (Professional/Life membership) Association for Business Communication, USA Achievements Editorial Board: Chief Editor, General Magazine- Impetus, Jabalpur, India Editorial Team Member: BITSCAN, a half yearly magazine of BITS Pilani, Goa Campus Member of Board of Examiners for PhD Thesis: Osmania University, Hyderabad. Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur Reviewer Board: Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects, USA. Interdisciplinary Journal of Doctoral Studies, USA. InfoLit Book, Informing Science Institute, UK.

4 PhD/MPhil. Theses Reviewed PhD Thesis: Analyzing Speech Act...in Pragmatics, Dept of English, Osmania University, Hyderabad. PhD Thesis: Effective Reading Strategies to the Learners of Engineering and Technology Courses, Osmania University, Hyderabad. PhD Thesis: Narratives of Pain and Struggle in the Select Novels of Toni Cade Bambara and Gloria Naylor, Dept of English, Osmania University, Hyderabad. PhD Thesis: Teaching Technical English: Syllabus for Medical Transcription Professionals in India Dept of English, Osmania University, Hyderabad. M. Phil Thesis: A Critical Assessment of English Language Teaching Self Instructional Material through Computer Assisted Language Learning: A Case Study, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur(A.P.) M. Phil Thesis: Broken Dreams and Discarded Lives in the Select Short Fiction of Bharti Mukherjee, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur(A.P.) PhD Supervision Area(s) Communication Apprehension- 1 candidate Spiritual Intelligence and Performance 1 Candidate Speaker/ Chief Guest Invited Speaker, Technical Presentation Skills for a Refresher Course at Goa University, Goa. India, 2013 Invited as Chief Guest for an Inaugural Event of Writing Centre at Chowgule's College, Goa Invited Speaker, Technical Presentation Skills for a Refresher Course at Goa University, Goa. India, 2007 Invited Speaker, Soft Skills for Young Engineers for a Workshop at GGIT Group, M.P. India Invited Speaker, Decoding Body Language for an Employee Orientation Programme at Concrete Technochem, Indore, India Guest Speaker, Effective Reading and Writing Skills at St. Pauls College, M.P., India. Patent Method and System for Generating Spiritual Intelligence and Research Performance Indices (complete filing) 2013 System and Method for user friendly Videoconferencing Communication. (Provisional filing) 2015 Research Areas Spiritual Intelligence Pedagogical Issues in Instructional Technology.

5 Communication Effective Public Speaking Projects/Consultancy /Workshop Consultancy/Training prog:.client: Frontline officers and Managers of CIPLA Biotec, Verna, Goa, 30 participants. Topic: Technical Writing. Period: 12 July-05 October 2016 (6 sessions/12 Hours) Amount: Rs. 6.65Lakhs Consultancy: AS PI: Communication Skills for Managers/Executives, Zuari Industries,Goa. Period: 15 Days, 2008) AS PI: BUSINESS COMMUNICATION, AMS Consultancies LUCKNOW, AUG 2005 TO 2005 DEC, Rs LAKHS AS PI: BUSINESS COMMUNICATION, Technochem, Indore, MAY 2005 TO 2005 JUNE, Rs LAKHS AS PI: Decoding Body Language, Innovention Lab, Bangalore, JULY 2004 TO 2004 DEC, Rs AS PI: Soft Skills, Innovention Lab, Bangalore, AUG 2003 TO 2003 DEC, Rs Workshop Coordinator and Resource Person, Theme: Innovative Pedagogies for Enhancing the Employability Skills of Students 4th September th September 2013, Dept of HSS, BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus. Project Completed : (Major Project Funded- Indian Council of Social Science Research, Ministry of HRD): Title: Exploring Spiritual Quotient and Analyzing its Impact on the Research Performance of University Teachers Book Publications Currently (co-)authoring book on Soft Skills for Cengage Publications Has authored two books (Best Seller in Central India) for Shivani Publication, Gwalior, India. Communication Skills-I. published in the year Communication Skills-II. published in the year Book Chapters Demystifying Spiritual Intelligence: A Critical Review of its Definitions and Dimensions. Proceedings of the International Conference on Spirituality and Skill for Leadership and Sustainable Management, Varanasi, India SIRPD: Spiritual Intelligence and Research Performance Dimension Framework in Higher Education. Proceedings of International Conference on

6 Research and Business Sustainability ICRBS th 6th December, IIT Roorkee Greater Noida Campus2015, Delhi, India Spiritual Intelligence and Organisational Effectiveness Ecosystem. Technology and Business Management. Editors Shivprakash and Omprakash, AIMS International, pp: (citations: 4) A Critical View on Conceptualiziang Spiritual Quotient Dimesional Model for Alleviating Oral Communication Apprehension. Managing Organizations in Digital Era, Editors Shivprakash and Omprakash, AIMS International, pp: Spiritual Intelligence Dimensions (SID) - A Case for Impact Analysis of SID on Business Leadership. A Handbook of Management and Behavioural Sciences, Vol. 6, Ed. Deshpande, P, Prashant, Ghatak M.R., Anand,S. Wisdom Publications ISBN Delhi. pp Impact Analysis of Spiritual Quotient in Achieving Excellence in Research Performance of University Teachers in an Indian Context.. A Handbook of Management and Behavioural Sciences, Vol. 6, Ed. Deshpande, P, Prashant, Ghatak M.R., Anand,S. Wisdom Publications ISBN Delhi. SIDM: Spiritual Intelligence Dimensional Model for Effective Business Leadership. Spiritual Paradigm for Management. Ed. Sandeep Singh,Excel India Publishers ISBN New Delhi.pp Guidelines for Designing and Developing Soft Skills Contents for Mobile Phones. Soft Skills Strategies: Academia and Industry Perspectives Research Publications Journal Paper(s) Upadhyay N and Upadhyay S. (2017). #RighttoBreathe why not? Social Media Analysis of the Local in the Capital City of India. Elsevier Procedia Computer Science (Accepted 2016 and To be published in 2017) (SCOPUS Indexed) Rodrigues, R and Upadhyay, S. (2017). Measuring Factors that Cause Communication Apprehension in an English as Second Language (ESL) setting - Presenting a Pilot Study of a New Instrument, Special Edition of The Asian EFL Journal (Accepted 2016 and To be published in 2017) (SCOPUS Indexed) Upadhyay, S and Upadhyay, N. (2016). A Multi-Criteria Decision Framework to Measure Spiritual Intelligence of University Teachers. Procedia Computer Science 91, (SCOPUS Indexed) Upadhyay, S and Rodrigues, R. (2016). Investigating foreign language learning: examining anxiety associated with English language acquisition in the Asian ESL. Special Edition of The Asian EFL Journal, 5: (SCOPUS Indexed) Upadhyay. S, (2014), Teaching Students the Team Building Skills through Small Group Activity Involving Creative Writing. International Journal of Communication Vol. 24 Upadhyay. S, (2012), Comparative Study of the various Models of the Communication Process, International Journal of Communication. Vol.22 Upadhyay. S, and Upadhyay. N. (2007) Pedagogical Issues for Developing ESL Course on Mobile Phone. IEEE Learning Technology. Upadhyay. S, and Upadhyay. N. (2007). Mobile Language Class: Language Learning Through Mobile Gaming. ITDL.

7 Upadhyay. S., Upadhyay. N Developing SQ index for University Teachers: A Quantitative Approach, Int. Journal of Educational Management, Emerald (under review). Paper submitted to International Journal of Soft Computing and Applications (Scopus indexed); Paper Title: Can Spiritual Intelligence Influence Research Performance in Higher Education. International/ National Conferences Upadhyay N and Upadhyay S. (2017), #RighttoBreathe why not? Social Media Analysis of the Local in the Capital City of India. Elsevier International Conference On Computational Science (June 2017), Switzerland; ICCS is an A-rank conference in CORE classification and one of the most cited events and publications in computational science according to Google Scholar, with h5- index=37 and h5-median=57 Rodrigues, R and Upadhyay, S. (2017). Measuring Factors that Cause Communication Apprehension in an English as Second Language (ESL) setting - Presenting a Pilot Study of a New Instrument, March 2017 Phillipines.(SCOPUS Indexed) Pinto S, Upadhyay S and Upadhyay N. (2017). Demystifying Spiritual Intelligence: A Critical Review of its Definitions and Dimensions. Proceedings of the International Conference on Spirituality and Skill for Leadership and Sustainable Management, Varanasi, India Upadhyay, S and Upadhyay, N. (2016). A Multi-Criteria Decision Framework to Measure Spiritual Intelligence of University Teachers. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology and Quantitative Management, South Korea. Upadhyay, S and Rodrigues, R. (2016). Investigating foreign language learning: examining anxiety associated with English language acquisition in the Asian ESL. Proceedings of the TESOL Conference, Indonesia. Upadhyay, S and Upadhyay, N. (2015). SIRPD: Spiritual Intelligence and Research Performance Dimension Framework in Higher Education. Proceedings of International Conference on Research and Business Sustainability ICRBS th 6th December, IIT Roorkee Greater Noida Campus2015, Delhi, India Upadhyay, S., Upadhyay, N., and Pinto, S (2015). Spiritual Intelligence and Organisational Effectiveness Ecosystem. Proceedings of International Conference on Technology and Business ICTB rd -25th March, 2015, Dubai. Upadhyay. S and Parashar. P (2013). A Critical View on Conceptualizing Spiritual Quotient Dimensional Model for Alleviating Oral Communication Apprehension. Proceedings of the 11th AIMS International Conference on Management.(also coming as a book chapter) December 21-24, 2013 Upadhyay. S and Kapoor. A (2012). Spiritual Intelligence Dimensions (SID) - A Case for Impact Analysis of SID on Business Leadership. 4th ICMBS 2012 International Conference (organized by Society of Management and Behavioral Sciences), Feb 25-26, 2012, Rajasthan (India). Upadhyay. S (2012). Impact Analysis of Spiritual Quotient in Achieving Excellence in Research Performance of University Teachers in an Indian

8 Context. International Conference on Spiritual Paradigm for Surmounting Global Management Crisis, Feb 24-2, 2012, Varanasi, India. Upadhyay. S and Kapoor. A (2012). SIDM: Spiritual Intelligence Dimensional Model for Effective Business Leadership. International Conference on Spiritual Paradigm for Surmounting Global Management Crisis, Feb 24-2, 2012, Varanasi, India. Upadhyay. S (2012). Dimensions of Spiritual Intelligence and their impact on Public Speaking. TESOL Asia & TESOL India conference, 2-4 Dec, 2011, Pune. Varsha Adusumilli, Shalini Upadhyay (2009). Media Literacy in Indian Context: A Case Study of the High Schools and Undergraduate Colleges of Goa. 4th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences University of Athens Greece (accepted) Shalini Upadhyay (2009). Teaching Learning Soft Skills on the Move: A Mobile Learning Paradigm Approach.16th International Conference on Learning, University of Barcelona Spain (accepted) Upadhyay. S (2008). Guidelines for Designing and Developing Soft Skills Contents for Mobile Phones. International Conference on Soft Skills Strategies: Academia and Industry Perspectives, BITS-Pilani. Upadhyay, N, Upadhyay, S (2006). ICT and e-learning Techniques and Methodology for Quality Higher Education. Digital Learning Asia 2006 conference (accepted). Upadhyay, S (2005). Role of Nonverbal Communication For Effective Technical Presentation. National Conference on Next Generation IT: Documenting the Future (NGITDF), Jabalpur.