Leadership Team

Dr. Adit Gupta is the Director of Model Institute of Education and Research Jammu and is also a Professor and Principal at the MIER College of Education, Jammu. He has a Ph.D. in the field of 'Technology Supported Learning Environments' from Curtin University, Perth, Australia and Master's degree in Psychology and Education. Dr. Gupta has over 24 years of teaching and professional experience at various levels and has contributed a lot for the promotion of educational research in the institution. Recipient of the prestigious 'Endeavour Executive Award' of the Australian Government in the year 2009 for conducting research in his area of specialization, he has also been appointed as an 'Endeavour Awards Ambassador' for the year 2016 by the Australian Government and is also an 'Adjunct Research Fellow' at Curtin University, Australia.

He is also an alumnus of the 'International Visitors Leadership Programme' (IVLP) of the US Government wherein he was invited to visit United States to study the system of primary and secondary education. Psychosocial learning environments, Educational Technology, STEM Education, Educational Psychology, Educational Measurement and Evaluation, teacher and school education are his primary areas of research. He is a member of various prestigious bodies such as the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST), USA, The American Education Research Association (AERA), All India Association for Educational Research (AIAER) and Australasian Science Education Research Association (ASERA) etc.

Dr. Gupta has participated and presented papers in numerous national and international conferences and has been working as a reviewer and assessor of research papers at the international level. He has also been supervising and guiding research dissertations at the M.Ed. and Ph.D. levels. Dr. Gupta is also the managing editor of the MIER Journal of Educational Studies, Trends and Practices (MJESTP)-an international peer reviewed journal. Dr. Gupta has been a trained assessor of the NAAC and has acted as the member coordinator for various NAAC peer team visits in the past. He has been awarded an Innovation Patent by the Registrar of Patents-Commonwealth of Australia for his research on Online Teaching and Learning. Besides, he has also received the Editorial Excellence Award twice, National Eminent Editor Award, International Academic Leader Award and Best Senior Researcher Award for his contributions to academia and research.