PU Faculty part of 75- day global event by GCEC celebrating 75 Years of Indian Independence

Chandigarh, March 3, 2022: 3rd March, 2022 : Professor Archana R Singh, School of Communication Studies, Panjab University, has been honoured by Global Media Education Council (GCEC) for being a part of the 75 day event celebrating the 75 years of Indian Independence.  The unique 75-day event involving Indian and global academics and professionals, which intends to celebrate this diversity with scholarly contributions from varied perspectives in this unique online conclave has been organized by GMEC- Global Media Education Council stretching from October  21, 2021, to  April  10, 2022.

The event celebrates 75 Years in  75 days with 90 minute sessions involving 75 Indian Stalwarts, 75 Foreign Stalwarts, 75 Govt Officials, 75 Books/Reports, 150 Young Researchers. Prof . Archana R Singh was a part of the event with a session on the topic ‘Press and Development : A Novel Paradigm’ that was streamed on March 2, 2022. Prof. Singh has been an eminent media educator and was invited to be a part of this event for her stellar contribution to the field of Media and Communication Education.

Prof. Singh with an academic career spanning more than two decades has a number of accolades to her kitty. She has been member, Central Panel Jury for the 66th National Film Awards by Ministry of I&B, GoI Member of Film and Television Institute of India Society by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. She has also been Elected Member of Governing and Academic Council of the FTII Pune. Member, Post graduate Board of Studies, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, GJ University, Hisar, Central University of Haryana Mahendragarh, IP University New Delhi, Indian Institute of Mass Communication Society and many others. She was appointed by UNESCO as part of the Review Panel for their research on youth and violent extremism on social media.

She has more than 150 academic publications including journal papers and book chapters, presentations and seminar talks. She has held many Administrative posts at Panjab University such as Chairperson, School of Communication Studies & Coordinator, PU Radio (twice, Warden, of a Girls Hostel, Cultural Coordinator of Panjab University, Colloquium Coordinator, Panjab University and the Editor of Panjab University Research Journal of Social Sciences. She has completed prestigious research projects such as `Science for Women health and nutrition through Community Radio, a project by the National Council of Science and Technology Communication, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. Of India and presently she is a member of A Panjab University- Cambridge Project on Transforming India’s Green Revolution by Research and Empowerment for Sustainable Food Supplies’ She is heading the Media section of the project. Prof Singh is a recipient of the Senior Social Scientist Fellowship from ICSSR in the subject of Mass Communication
 
She takes time out to write features for newspapers, make radio programmes for PU’s community radio, make documentaries for Panjab University, run a blog, write poetry for leisure and record some voice-overs from time to time.