Multidisciplinary Researches During Covid ERA

About The Editors

Dr. Rajesh Trehan obtained his doctorate from Panjab University, Chandigarh; master’s (M.Sc., M.Phil.) from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra and is presently working as Associate Professor and Head of Chemistry Department at SGGSJ Govt. P. G. College, Paonta Sahib (H.P.). He has over 30 years of teaching and research experience at various premier Govt. institutions and has more than 40 publications in national and international journals of repute.

Dr. Trehan has organized and participated in many seminars, conferences, workshops, webinars of national and international level in various capacities and successfully completed three research projects of DST, CSIR & USAID. He was awarded fellowships of DST & CSIR (JRF, SRF open) in Chemical Sciences and is actively associated with many academic societies, clubs, associations etc. He got professional trainings on various analytical techniques from reputed institutions and performed numerous administrative and academic duties at college and university levels. He is also associated with Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and SCERT. His current interests are material sciences, analytical chemistry, skill enhancements in chemistry and environmental sciences.

Dr. Aarti Trehan, Associate Professor of Chemistry at Arya Kanya Mahavidyalaya, Shahabad (M), Kurukshetra with over 30 years of research and teaching experience, got her doctorate from Panjab University as CSIR fellow and master’s from Kurukshetra University. She has organized and actively participated in many seminars, workshops, conferences, webinars etc. and has more than 12 research publications to her credit in journals of repute. She is engaged in numerous academic and administrative activities in her college and university. She acted as Member, Board of Studies, Kurukshetra University. Her present interests include Educational Reforms and Sustainable Growth.

About The Books

COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted every aspect of human life. As the COVID-19 spread across the globe, alarm bells are sounding in the education sector. The Covid-19 pandemic has forced research and academic institutions to shut down temporarily and is causing havoc in the education system.  The issue of the COVID-19 and its impact on research and higher education is an emergent focus of debate worldwide.  Closing universities and cancelling research activities have become a COVID-19 reality in many countries of the world, leading to enormous anxiety and uncertainty.  The purpose of this edited book is to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on multidisciplinary research and higher education.  Efforts have been   made by this edited volume to identify and investigate the challenges that presently our research and higher education systems are facing due to COVID-19 disruption. The opportunities have been explored for the future of global research and higher education in the post-COVID-19 world.

This edited book has provided a critical reflection on the opportunities and challenges for internationalization and will focus on how research and higher education systems across the globe learnt from each other to address new challenges of COVID-19. This book will serve as an opportunity for multidisciplinary researchers, teachers, educators, research scholars and practitioners to reconsider and imagine the work of comparative and international higher education on our campuses.  This book will respond to the emergent necessitate for new insights and perspectives to get better research and higher education policy and practice in the era of COVID-19.  By keeping this view in mind, we have decided to go for this edited book titled “Multidisciplinary Researches during Covid Era”