The Chair Dr Paul Pulikkan is an approved Guide of the MG University at the Jeevadhara Department of Socio-Religious Research (JDSR) in the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Mahatma Gandhi University (MGU), Kottayam, Kerala. PhD level research in Socio-Religious realm is possible here (the Library facilities at the Chair can be utilized by the candidates). Theology (and Religion) and its relationship with Social History, Political Economy, Social Theory, Economic Anthropology, Socio-Linguistic Philosophy, Ethnography, Human Geography and Human Ecology will be areas of specialization.
