Dr. K. G.B.Santhosh Kumari
Name: Dr. K. G.B.Santhosh Kumari
Qualification: MA,MPhil, PGCTE, PGDTE, PGDL, PGDip.in TEFL(BETT), MPhil, Ph.D
Designation : Associate Professor
Department : Basic Sciences and Humanities(English)
Institute name : Vignan's Institute of Information Technology(Autonomous)
College address : Beside VSEZ,Duvvada,Visakhapatnam-530049
awardtitle:Best Teacher Award
Experience: 18
About Dr. K. G.B.Santhosh Kumari
Dr. K.G.B. Santhosh Kumari has been working as Assoc. Professor of English in Vignan’s Institute of Information Technology (Autonomous),Visakhapatnam from more than a decade. She had her PhD on Indian English Literature under the guidance of Prof. L. Manjula Davidson from Andhra University. She completed her M Phil from Prof. B. Sudipta AU. She pursued her PGCTE and PGDTE from EFLU. She complemented her qualifications with a PG Diploma in TEFL with single specialization (Business English) from APTTI which is authorized by Canadian Embassy. She had her PG Diploma in Linguistics from Andhra University. She had approximately 20 International and national paper presentations and 15 publications. She is specialized in English Language and Literature, Material/Content development and Course Design. Besides writing articles on various disciplines, she is very much inclined towards writing poetry. Many of her poems and articles got published in various books and peer reviewed journals. She has been teaching from 18 years to the students of various categories like M.Tech., B Tech, B Pharmacy, MCA, MBA, B.Sc, B.Com and other undergraduate and postgraduate streams. She updates herself based on the need of the hour. She upgrades her knowledge by doing various Coursera Certification Programmes from International Universities, Swayam Courses offered by various IITs and IIScs. She had good command on the usage on digital platform for the disbursement of her knowledge. She acts as resource person for various Faculty Development Programmes. motivational sessions, workshops on Spoken English, Communication Skills, Outcome Based Education , Team Work ,Time Management and so on. She has conducted many FDPs, Workshops and training sessions related to English. She is a member of IACLALS, AIETC, ELT@I, IAAS and so on. She has been acting as Coordinator of Business English Certificate (BEC) from past 5 years at college level and received Extra Mile Award (2019) from Cambridge Assessment for being the best coordinator. She is the receipient of Visista Seva Award for completing 10 years of service in VIIT(2019).She is a recipient of Prathibha Award for All round Excellency (2012 and 2019).She received Sastra Award in 2012 for her Research Excellency. She was felicitated by JKC, Guntur for her Poetry.Apart from the aforementioned, she has attended more than 40 workshops and training programmes organized by various universities and Multi National Companies like Infosys. She acts as Corporate Trainer. She has designed various courses and successful in handling those courses without difficulty. She taught various courses like English, Academic Writing, Business communication, Managerial Communication and Soft Skills, Professional English, English Communication Skills and so on. She is good at content development, brochure designing, editing a magazine and drafting various courses. She encourages the underprivileged students by motivating them through her motivation sessions. Especially, every year she visits juvenile home in Visakhapatnam and motivates them on various disciplines useful for the girls and boys who stay in the Juvenile Home. She has been designated various roles like Vice President, G and D, Director-Media International, Vice President-Special Activities in an international service-oriented firm, JCI, India from past 4 years. From childhood ,she has been inclined towards service related activities. She acted as NSS Volunteer from her graduation and consecutively 3 years she served as NSS Programme Officer in SVP Engineering College and VITAM College of Engineering.