Dr Athira
Assistant Professor
Qualifications:
PhD, MPhil, MCom, UGC NET
Paper Presentations and Conferences Attended:
Participated in One day National seminar on ‘Trading in Derivatives - Emerging Threats and
Opportunities’ Conducted by Department of Commerce, School of Business Management
and Legal Studies, University of Kerala, held on 5th November 2013.
Participated in two-day workshop on ‘IPR and Innovation Management’ jointly organized by
Patent Information Centre, Kerala/ KSCSTE & Institute of Management in Kerala,
University of Kerala held on 15& 16 October 2014
Participated and presented a paper in One day National seminar on ‘Human Capital and
Indian Economy-Planning for Development’ Conducted by Department of Commerce,
University of Kerala on 15th November 2014. Title of the paper was ‘Role of Women
Entrepreneurs in Developing Rural India: Opportunities and Challenges”.
Participated in two-day National seminar on ‘Sustainable Development and the Kerala Economy’Conducted by Department of Commerce, University of Kerala, held on 8th & 9th June,2015.
Presented a paper on “Role of women Entrepreneurs in Developing Rural India- Opportunities and Challenges” in the national seminar held on 8th and 9th Dec 2016 at Dept of Commerce, Sanatana Dharma College, Alappuzha Kerala
Presented a paper titled “Goods and Service Tax in India – Challenges in Implementation” in
the two-day national seminar on GST and its implication on Indian economy organized by
Research and PG dept of Commerce, Govt College for Women Trivandrum on 8th and 10th
Dec 2016.
Presented a paper entitled “Rural Infrastructure Development – A tool for Poverty Alleviation” in the three-day international seminar organized by Dept of Commerce, school of Business Management and Legal Studies, University of Kerala during 16th-18th Feb, 2017.
Presented a paper entitled “Mudra Bank for Enhancing Micro Finance” in the three-day international conference organized by the school of Distance Education, University of Kerala inassociation with IndianAssociation for Islamic Economics, Kerala Chapter held during 22nd to 24th March 2017
Presented a paper titled “The WTO Policies and India’s International Trade” in the threeday international seminar on “Trade War – does it affect the global free trade order?”,
organized by Dept of Commerce, University Of Kerala during 26th to 28th March 2019
Presented a paper titled ‘E-waste Recycling a Challenging Business Model’, in the Three-day International Seminar on “Business Models- Government Borrowings and Sourcing Finance for Scaling Business Operations” organized by the Dept. of Commerce, University of Kerala during 20th to 22nd January 2020.
Presented a research paper titled ‘E-waste Management – a growing concern for sustainability,’ in the National Seminar on Fundamentals of Quality Research in Social Science held at Govt. Arts and Science College Santhanpara, Idukki, sponsored by Directorate of College Education, Govt. of Kerala during 27- 29 January, 2020.
Presented a research paper entitled, ‘How Organizations Manage E-Waste In Kerala : An Empirical study’ in the two day International Conference on “Innovations and Transformations in Commerce,
Marketing and Economics: An insight into the Global and National scenario (ICITCME 2023), held on 7th and 8th March 2023, organized by the Post Graduate Department of Commerce, Mar Thoma College of Science and Technology, Kollam, Kerala.
Presented a research paper entitled “REVIEWS ON WEEE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES”, in One day National Conference on “Restructuring, Rejuvenating & Revitalizing the Commerce Education through NEP 2020”, organized by Indian Institute of Management and Commerce, Co-sponsored by Telangana Sate Council for Higher Education, Hyderabad & Planet Finance Business School, Hyderabad on 29th April 2023.
Participated in the One-day Workshop on “Communication of Research Findings- Workshop
onReporting Skills: organized by the Researchers’ Forum, Department of Commerce, University of Kerala on 29th April, 2023.
Participated in two-day Workshop on ‘How to create effective and impressive presentation in Powerpoint”, on 28th and 29th May 2023, organized by ED Club & Debate Club in association with
Naipunya 2022-23 & IQAC, VTM NSS College, Dhanuvachapuram, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala,
India
PUBLICATIONS
❖ Published a paper titled “Role of Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Rural India- Opportunities and
Challenges” in the ISBN book (ISBN: 978-93-5254-018-1) Published by the PG dept. of Commerce &
Research Centre, Sanathana Dharma College, Alappuzha, Kerala, 2
nd
Edition, December, 2016.
❖ Published a paper entitled “THE WTO POLICIES AND INDIA’S INTERNATIONAL TRADE” In the
IMPACT journal: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN HUMANITIES, ARTS AND
LITERATURE [IMPACT: IJRHAL], ISSN(P): 2347-4564; ISSN (O): 2321-8878, UGC approved
Journal- 40893, Vol-07, Special Issue
– 1, March 2019, 292-297.
❖ Published a research paper titled “E-WASTE RECYCLING – A CHALLENGING BUSINESS
MODEL” in the Indexed, Peer reviewed and listed in UGC Care journal, ‘Our Heritage’, ISSN: 0474-
9030, Impact factor: 6.8, Vol:68, Issue-18, January, 2020, 415-423.
❖ Published a research paper entitled “E-Waste Awareness among Households in Kerala” in the peerreviewed, Referred, Indexed & Open Access Journal, (IRJHIS)International Research Journal of
Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies, ISSN: 2582-8568, Impact factor: 5.828 (SJIF2022), Vol:3,
Issue-10, October, 2022, 74-82.
❖ Published a research paper entitled “Inventorization of E-Waste Among Organizations in Kerala” in an
International Open Access, Peer-Reviewed, Refereed journal, International Journal of Creative
Research Thoughts (IJCRT) , ISSN:2320-2882, Impact factor: 7.97, Volume 11, Issue 11, November
2023