About Us

Department of Communication Skills
Marwadi Education Foundation

Since 20th Oct. 2013


Objectives:

A. To develop teacher competency, 
B. To share departmental research with the academic fraternity outside, and
C. To open up various issues and concerns across the disciplines for discussion so as to develop personally and professionally.


Departmental Profile


Dr. Sunil Sagar
Head
Department Communication Skills, MEFGI
sunil.sagar@marwadieducation.edu.in
Contact No: 9428156010

He holds a doctorate in Translation Studies. He has been a part of several state government initiatives in higher and technical education.  As Coordinator of Academic Affairs, he was instrumental in setting up the state university for teacher education-Indian Institute of Teacher Education, Gandhinagar. In the domain of ELT, he has designed various training modules for proficiency in English, Voice and Accent Training and other soft skills.



Dr. Deepak J. Mashru
(M.Com, M.A., B.Ed., MJMC, PGDCA, PH.D.)
Assistant Professor,
Department of Communication Skills
deepak.mashru@marwadieducation.edu.in
Contact No: 9824210500

He has obtained M.Com. (Costing), Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application, B.Ed. (English), M.A. (English), Bachelor of Journalism & Mass Communication. He is pursuing Ph. D. in English Language Teaching. He has been in the field of English teaching for more than 18 years. He has taught English and Communication Skills at various levels from secondary to PG level. He has presented several research papers in national in international conferences. Further, he has authored two books on Communication Skills. He also caters IEEE conferences as a reviewer.   







Dr. Pooja Jagdishchandra Shukla
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Skills
pooja.shukla@marwadieducation.edu.in
Contact No: 9426759238

She has completed her M.A (English) and also obtained the degree of B.Ed. from Gujarat University. She secured a Gold medal in her graduation, securing first rank in Gujarat University. She has completed her M.Phil. and PhD from Saurashtra University. She is interested in - teaching verbal & non-verbal communication, teaching and learning literature. Apart from this, she is the time table coordinator and manages the language lab.




Mr. Mihir Dave
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Skills, MEFGI
mihir.dave@marwadieducation.edu.in
Contact No: 9712981603

Mr. Mihir Dave has completed his Bachelors and Masters in English and has around 10 years of teaching experience at undergraduate and post-graduate levels in many reputed institutions of Gujarat. He is pursuing his PhD on Translation Studies. His areas of interest are ELT and translation studies. Apart from English, he also offers French language proficiency course at the institution.




Mr. Jigar Abhani
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Skills
jigar.abhani@marwadieducation.edu.in
Contact No: 8866768525

Mr. Jigar Abhani has completed his M.A. in English Language Teaching from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar. He has participated in many workshops, seminars and conferences aiming at teaching and learning of English language. He has achieved THE STUDENT OF THE YEAR award from H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research, Vallabh Vidyanagar for the academic year 2013-2014. He has hosted many cultural programmes at different levels of his educational career. He won many prizes and medals in various elocution and debate competitions at state and zonal level.



Dr. Vipul Solanki
Assistant Professor,
Department of Communication Skills, MEFGI
vipul.solanki@marwadieducation.edu.in
Contact No: 9879734614

He has earned MA, MPhil and PhD in English. He has been teaching language, soft skills and humanities subjects to the different group of students since a decade. He has presented papers in many seminars and conferences and two papers have also been published. He has also attended many FDPs and workshops towards excellence in teaching and learning. He is a coordinator of the Departmental faculty forum, Samvad.



Mr. Bhautik Limbani
Assistant Professor,
Department of Communication Skills, MEFGI
bhautik.limbani@marwadieducation.edu.in
Contact No: 9824389739

Mr. Bhautik Limbani completed his Bachelors, Masters and M.Phil. from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar. He is pursuing his PhD on Cultural Studies. He has more than 5 years of teaching experience at undergraduate and post-graduate level in the reputed institutions of Gujarat. He has participated in many national and international seminars, workshops and conferences. He has designed and delivered a course, English through Fiction, at undergraduate level.



Ms. Anjana Prajapati
Assistant Professor
Department Communication Skills, MEFGI
anjana.prajapati@marwadieducation.edu.in


Ms. Anjana Prajapati has completed her M.A. in English Literature from Saurastra University, Rajkot. She has more than 10 years of experience in various reputed universities. She has designed  various courses in the field of second language acquisition.Furthermore, she has conducted various faculty training programmes to enrich the knowledge of designing student’s learning experience. Her area of specialisation includes English Language Teaching, of Soft Skills, Life Skills, and Communication Skills.She is also interested in philosophy, fantasy literature, and education. She has a personal blog named “lumos”.




Mr. Ashok Pandya
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Skills, MEFGI
ashok.pandya@marwadieducation.edu.in
Contact No: 9033316103

He has earned MA, MPhil in English. He is pursuing PhD. He has been teaching communication skills to the engineering, MBA and Pharmacy students since last four years. He has presented papers in many seminars and conferences. He is a language lab coordinator of the communication skills department.


Ms. Ateesha Shrivastava
Lecturer
Department of Communication Skills, MEFGI
ateesha.shrivastava@marwadieducation.edu.in
Contact Number: 9669725409


Ms. Ateesha Shrivastava has completed her post graduation from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. On having a keen interest towards Translation Studies and Criticism Ms. Ateesha Shrivastava is also planning to pursue her doctorate degree in the same.  Ms. Ateesha Shrivastava has more than one year of teaching experience at Marwadi University. Her research paper, short stories and quotes have also been published in journals and anthologies respectively. She is fond of writing short stories and quotes and has also her blog, “Whole nine yards of life.”


Ms. Pratixa Parmar
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Skills, MEFGI
pratixa.parmar@marwadieducation.edu.in
Contact No: 8469927572
   
 Ms. Pratixa Parmar has completed her M.A. in English Language and Literature from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara. She has participated in my workshops and seminars aiming at the field of English Literature. She has a keen interest in writing and having her personal blog named as ‘A Poetic journey’. She has more than two years teaching experience of Communication Skills.


Dr.J.Vijayalakshmi 
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Skills, MEFGI
vijayalakshmi.j@marwadieducation.edu.in

Dr.J.Vijayalakshmi has completed M.phil., Ph.D. in English from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. Her area of specialisation includes Postmodernism, Postcolonialism, Eco-Criticism and Indian Literature. She has published three books -Quest for God ( a novel), Poems on the Eternal  God ( Anthology of Poems) and a research work entitled A Postmodernist Critique of the Select works of Amitav Ghosh. Furthermore, she has published more than 25 research articles and presented more than 40 research papers at National and International level. The collection of poems- Poems on the Eternal God was released by the Chief Minister of Pondicherry. She is a renowned Toastmaster and has completed Advanced Communicator Silver and Advanced Leader Silver. She was awarded the best outgoing student of the year consequently at graduation, post-graduation and research levels. Her forthcoming books include a collection of short stories entitled Unfinished and a collection of poems entitled Desire.



Ms. Sejal Ladola
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication skills, MEFGI
sejal.ladola@marwadieducatioon.edu.in
Contact No: 9879163944

She has earned M. A. (English language and literature) from MSU. She is confident and interested in the field of creative writing, world literature and business correspondence. She has experience of teaching versatile subjects in Arts/Commerce college.

1 comment:

  1. perfect team ! happy to see you all on the same page !

    best wishes !

    ~ imran

    ReplyDelete