Teaching

The centre has been offering M.Phil and Ph.D programmes in Women’s Studies since 2009. At present 2021 Seven Ph.D. students have been registered. The University has introduced a course in M.A which is interdisciplinary in nature, M.A. (Women’s Studies and Entrepreneurship). Five students have been completed the course. Co-curricular courses are offered in Women’s Studies for UG, B. Ed and B.E. students. Two credits are offered for this co-curricular programme, 688 students have completed.

Director (i/c) of Women's Studies Centre

Dr.V.Premala Priyadharshini 

M.Sc., M.Phil.,Ph.D. SLET

Professor (CAS) 
Food service Management and Dietetics

Dr. G. Sheefna 

MWS, M.Phil, Ph.D
Assistant Professor (Temp)

Other staff

About Women's Studies Centre

The Women's Studies Centre of Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women , Coimbatore is sponsored by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi and was initiated in August 2000. The Centre acts as a catalyst for promoting and strengthening women's studies through teaching, research, extension, information dissemination and advocacy.

Funded projects for infrastructure development

Title: Networking Computational and Facilities (2009-10)

• DST Funded project under CURIE worth 60  Lakhs.    
• All departments are connected on WiFi.
• Easy access of information (Internet, e-journal,e-content) anywhere, anytime.
• Easy, quick and secure access to visitors

Title: e-Smart Campus (2006-07)

• UGC sponsored project worth 40 Lakhs.         
• Biometric attendance system

• Maintenance and regular updation of our institution website www.avinuty.ac.in and intranet www.adu.edu
• Maintains and co-ordinates in t

Computer Centre is functioning as a technology provider to students, researchers and teaching community to fulfill their computational, technological, Internet requirements and facilitate a common computational resource centre for the academic programmes as well as for maintenance of the other computing resources in the Institute

Vision

To contribute to the growth by serving as a valuable central resource for enabling adoption and implementation of emerging ICT technologies in the Avinashilingam Institute towards Academic, Research and Operational Excellence

Mission

The Computer centre was established in the year 1991, with financial grant from UGC, to augment the computing facility to the MCA and M.Sc. Computer Science students and to provide additional support to the computer related activities of the University. The Computer centre extends support facilities to all the departments of the University and ensures optimal utilization of Computer facility.