University of Calcutta, India
The University of Calcutta (CU) is a public state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The university has a total of fourteen campuses spread over the city of Kolkata and its suburbs. As of 2020, 151 colleges and 21 institutes and centres are affiliated with CU. The university has 60 departments organized into seven faculties: arts, commerce, social welfare and business management, education, journalism and library science, engineering and technology, fine arts, music and home science, law and science; and an agriculture institute with six departments.
Santoshi Halder, Ph.D., is a Professor at the Department of Education, University of Calcutta, India. She is a Board-Certified Behaviour Analyst (BACB, USA) and has a Special Educator license (Rehabilitation Council of India, RCI). She is awarded the prestigious ‘Extraordinary Professorship’ by the University of Pretoria, South Africa (2023) and the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (S-I-R), USA (2024). She has been the recipient of prestigious International awards; Short-visit, Ludwigsburg University of Education, Germany (2024), Hungarian ICM Erasmus, (2022-2025), Hungarian State bilateral Awardee (2022-23), Shastri-Indo-Canadian Fellow (2020-22), Fulbright Academic and Professional Excellence fellow, USA (2020), Rockefeller Fellow, Italy (2019), Japan Society for Promotion of Science/ JSPS Fellow, (2019), Endeavour Australia-India Education Research Fellow and Honorary Fellow at Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre (OTARC), La Trobe University, Australia (2015-2016), Endeavour Awards Ambassador (2018) and Fulbright Nehru Senior Research Fellow, USA (2011–2012). She received the Governor’s Medal (West Bengal, India) in 2001 for her contribution to the community as a National Cadet (NCC).
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