Debashish Roy
PhD Programme: Humanistic Studies
Research group: GFPD – Group of Trainers for the Professionalization of Doctoral Studies
Supervisors: Maria Ercilia García Álvarez & Maria Dolores Jiménez López
Bio
Debashish Roy holds a Bachelor's Degree in Commerce (Professional) from Christ University, Bangalore, India and a Master's Degree in Business Administration with a specialization in Business Analytics from UPES, Dehradun, India. During his master's degree, he authored ten opinions based and educational articles in leading periodicals like the Analytics India Magazine and the GreyCampus. He has been the recipient of European Union's Erasmus+ semester exchange scholarship at the University of Maribor, Slovenia. During this tenure he visited and networked in eleven European countries which developed his interest in academic writing and research. Debashish co-authored two book chapters before deciding to commence his doctoral studies: (i) "The Impact of Al on World Economy." in Artificial Intelligence and Global Society: Impact and Practices, published by Chapman and Hall/CRC Press in 2021 and (ii) "Descriptive, Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics" in Decision Intelligence Analytics and the Implementation of Strategic Business Management, published by Springer in 2022. The work shed light upon the basics of AI technology and the changing conditions of employment and migration triggered by it. His door-to-door fundraising efforts for orphaned children was recognized by SOS Children's' Village, an international development organization headquartered in Innsbruck, Austria. Debashish is also one of the founding members of Sai Keerti Educational Society, a non-profit organization which facilitates affordable education and training for school children in the NCR region of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Project: Doctoral Training for Enhancing European Doctorate Holders’ Employability across Disciplines: Co-creating transversal skills with industry
The aim of the project is to enhance the quality of the employability of PhD graduates and their visibility in the productive system regardless of the discipline in which they have obtained their PhD. This project aims to establish a dialogue between the doctoral candidates and graduates, firms and universities in order to clarify subjacent expectations and create synergies to improve the training of doctoral researchers and raise various industry's awareness of the added-value that their human capital can bring about. Although the employability of doctorate holders is high, in many cases, their knowledge is not used at the full service of society because they are effectively underemployed. To service society, universities need to transfer the knowledge they develop to the productive sectors by incorporating these academically-trained researchers into the non-academic arena. But to guarantee that they are a valuable source of human capital to industry, this project ensures that they acquire a number of not yet quite defined transversal skills to be able to face the demands of the employment market. Although various initiatives to date have targeted doctoral training in transversal skills too, seldom the design of PhD researchers' training is devised in collaboration with the industries that are likely going to be their employers. This project aims to change current doctoral training by including transversal skills for the professionalization of doctoral researchers by raising the awareness of HEIs to the need for training in skills related to PhD holders employability; to modify the use that the labour market can make of these highly qualified doctoral holders; and to enhance employability of PhD holders and their visibility in the productive system, by raising the awareness of the industrial sector in order to reap the benefits of utilising the human capital that PhD holders represent.
Outreach activities
- European Researchers' Night 2022: "Tots podem contribuir a la ciència".
- European Researchers' Night 2023: "Empresar-te : Empresa, art i creació".
