Improving high-quality research is a necessary requirement for creating successful position in academic world. The objectives of Department of Research & development (DRD) of Kardan University are:
To build research careers, internationalization of human potential, support to strengthen the knowledge foundation and promote the creation of new ideas blended with cognitive and creative approaches, as well as societal impact of education, research and innovation.
DRD Vision Statement
To serve as a framework for the concrete direction in the area of research for the strategic plan 2015-2020 and to guide every aspect of research by defining what the university needs to accomplish to achieve sustainable quality growth in research areas.
DRD Mission Statement
The creation of a pervasive research culture across all academic disciplines and to achieve a leading position in the region within areas that are of national importance, by
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Sustainable development and effective use of the university infrastructure and human resources,
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Continuous improvement of supporting frameworks by implementing best practices, perfectionism, creativity, transparency, sustainability,
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Promotion and development of multidisciplinary research initiatives to create a fully integrated knowledge society and making significant contributions to the social and economic development of Kardan University and its environment.
Research Priorities
Since this is the very first comprehensive research strategy of the Kardan University, all the (faculties/schools) are given equal opportunity to further develop in their strategic approach to the research function. This resulted in a total number of 4 Faculties, with 8 domains and thus providing enough space to all units to try and enhance their research capacities under one common roof.
Faculty of Social Sciences
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Political Science
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Journalism
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International Relations
Faculty of Economics
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
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Civil Engineering
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Computer Sciences
Faculty of Law
Strategic Research Program Goals and Success Factors
The goals, success factors and objectives have been developed to effectively respond to the external evaluation of research quality at the university.
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Goal 1: To improve research capacities and capabilities, facilities, infrastructure and administrative support for research.
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Goal 2: To build nationally and internationally recognized research programmes and enhances the University’s visibility and reputation in the area of research.
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Goal 3: To be more creative and innovative in pursuing external research funding objectives.
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Goal 4: To strengthen and increase collaboration and research partnerships with other national or international institutions, industries, and government agencies.
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Goal 5: To improve performance, assessment and accountability of research activities and sponsored projects.
Inter-linkage within departments
In order to bring quality in writing projects, capstones and thesis, FDD facilitates professional development programs for the faculties and students in collaboration with DRD by arranging workshops, seminars, thesis exhibitions, mini-conferences and software analytic skills to meet the competitive market demand. Moreover faculties and students are encouraged to write research papers and accordingly they will be rewarded.
Support from Kardan University
University Scholarly Communication Grant (USCG)
The goals of USCG is to foster greater dissemination of the work of Kardan Scholars, showcase intellectual productivity of the University across the world and to support innovative models of scholarly publishing. This grant is available to Kardan community where in University will share the article processing charges for publishing papers in journals of repute. (Journals indexed in TR/Scopus).
Travel Grant
Kardan is committed to increase the exposure of its faculty and staff by encouraging them to attend national and international conferences, collaborative research work, workshops, seminars and symposia for their professional growth and excellence. University will provide support to its research community by providing them travel grants to meet the expenses of attending research related events.
Monetary benefits to principal investigator of sponsored research projects
Principal and co-investigators of the externally sponsored research projects are provided 25% of overhead charges as well relaxation in the teaching load.
Leave points
The research contribution of the Kardan faculty will help them to earn leave points which can be availed as leaves for attending research and academic related events. Furthermore, University will need the help of plagiarism checker software namely Turnitin, Viper or Checker Reddit.
Achievement
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The DRD focused on bringing a Journal of its own with strong editorial board members from different countries which added flavor to the taste of Research.
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The DRD publishes a quaterly Journal entitled, “Kardan Journal of Economics and Management Sciences” having ISSN NO: 2616-3950, indexed in ICI World of Journals, Crossref, RePEc, Ideas and Econ Papers, J-Gate and Google Scholar for providing a basic platform for the faculties to publish their work.
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The DRD publishes a biannual Journal entitled, “Kardan Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities” having ISSN NO: 2616-8707 for the faculties to publish their work.
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The DRD publishes an annual Journal entitled, “Kardan Journal of Engineering and Technology” having ISSN NO: 2706-7815, indexed in ROAD for the faculties to publish their work.
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The DRD publishes an annual Journal entitled, “Kardan Journal of Law” for the faculties to publish their work.
Recent Career Services Achievements
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Job Fair 2019 with more than 20 national and international organizations and 187 vacancies
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First ever virtual job fair in 2020 during COVID-19 pandemic
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Provision of job and internship opportunities for 200+ Kardan University’s student and alumni
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Learning new skills
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Training of 2000+ Kardan University’s students and alumni
