Dr. Debdulal Dutta Roy , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Psychology Research Unit
Indian Statistical Institute
203, B.T. Road
Kolkata - 700108
E-mail: ddroy@isical.ac.in
Fax : 91 - 33 - 25776680
Tel (o) : 91 - 33 - 2575 3454

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Dr. Debdulal Dutta Roy is the Assistant Professor of the PsychologyResearch Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Hereceived Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the Indian Instituteof Technology, Kharagpur in 1990. He completed Post Graduation inPsychology with specialization in Abnormal Psychology from theCalcutta University, 1982.He started schooling from the Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home, Rahara,West Bengal.He is registered Ph.D. supervisor of the Calcutta University.

AWARDS:    Dr. Dutta Roy is the recipient of few awards for his researches

  1. 'Young Scientist Award ' in 1988 by the Indian Science Congress Association,
  2. 'Best Poster Award' in 2003 and 2004 by the Indian Science Congress Association.
  3. 'ICQESMS 2005 Excellence award' by the Indian Congress on Quality,Environment, Energy and Safety Management Systems (ICQESMS) andCentral Board for Workers Education (CBWE) in 2005.
  4. 'Professor T.E. Shanmugam Award for excellence inresearch for 1999 and 2000'by the Madras Psychology Society in 2003.
  5. 'Best Paper Award' by the Pondicherry Psychology Association in 2003.
  6. 'Psychometric educational services award, 2004 by the GCC School of Creative intelligence and Research foundation trust,Vepur-Arcot, in 5th January, 2008
Research fellows working under his guidance obtained ISCA YoungScientist Award, 2001 and Dr. Deva Senapathy young scientist award in2003 by Indian Academy of Applied Psychology. One of his scholar iscurrently Assistant Professor of VGSOM, IIT. Kharagpur.

BOOK PUBLICATION:     He wrote book titled "Principles of Questionnaire Development With Empirical Studies" for students and Researchers in Social Sciences. The ISBN no.is 9788190992312.

TEST DVELOPMENT:    Dr. Dutta Roy did extensive researches for development of different psychological instruments:

  1. Organizational Health Questionnaire
  2. Computer programming Aptitude test battery
  3. Picture drawing test to assess consciousness layers of tribalchildren
  4. Reading and Writing Motivation Questionnaire for primaryschool children
  5. Questionnaire for assessment of attitude towardsprimary school infrastructures
  6. Questionnaire for assessing self-efficacy of agricultural farmers
PSYCHOMETRIC MODELS:     He published research papers on some psychometric test development models- increasein Cronbach's Alpha coefficient, item-total association bycorrespondence analysis, determining item discrimination value in caseof small sample size study.Dr. Dutta Roy evaluated methodologies followed in construction of alarge number of Psychological tests under the guidance of NationalCouncil of Educational Research and Training, 1992.

EVALUATION STUDIES:    He was the member of the Technical group for statistical consultancy of ISI, 1995. Hewas the Chief Coordinator for evaluation of IEC program of the Midterm Evaluation Project of IPP8 of CMDA, 1998 funded by World Bank. Hetested the validity of Fast ForWord(r) language gateway editionproduct of the Scientific Learning Corporation, USA. As statisticaladvisor of the Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad, he evaluatedthe project titled " Evaluation of Social Safety Net Programme andTracer Study on Impact of Job Separation". Dr. Dutta Roy was in the team for evaluating impact of training by Central Board for Workers Education to theworkers of Ambica Multifibres Ltd., Belur.

REVIEW:    He is engaged in reviewing manuscripts of both Indian and foreignjournals. He is currently the member of the editorial board of 'TheVision' (a scholarly Journal of School of Management Sciences, BengalEngineering & Science University).

EDITOR:     He is the Editor-in-chief of PSYBER NEWS ,International Psychology Research Publication, published in both electronic blogs and print media.

PUBLICATIONS:    He published 59 research papers in the Indian and Foreign journals, 10papers in books, gave 65 invited lectures in differentcorporate sectors, universities, institutes of National importance and colleges, presented 20 research papers in National and International conferences.

CONCEPTUAL MODELS:    He developed some conceptual models - Organizational diagnosis,non-financial accounting for innovation, managing incentive forinnovation, managing school infrastructure for indigenous people inhills and sustainable reading motivation, Rabindrasangeet in Psychotherapy

WORKSHOP/SEMINAR ORGANIZATION:    To disseminate psychometric principles, he convened one workshops -Workshop on Application of Advanced Multivariate Statistical Tools inPsychological And Educational Researches', 10-11,8,2006 and oneSeminar titled "Seminar on schedule design for psychological andeducational survey researches, 8.12.2006,in the Indian Statistical Institute. Besides, he conducted workshops on large and small sample data analysis, application of SPSS, Psychological test construction, questionnaire development in other institutes.

COUNCIL/BOARD MEMBER :    

  • Life member,Indian Science congress
  • Founder Member, Indian School Psychology Association, New Delhi.
  • Member, Academic Council of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (2008-10)
  • Member, Executive Council of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology from 2008;
  • Member, Advisory Board. Performing Arts Therapy center, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata;
  • Member,Academic Council of the Calcutta Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology,Kolkata
  • Member,Academic Advisory Board of Jyotirmoy School of Business from November,2010.
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the 'Journal of Management Research in Emerging Economies'of Dr. B.C.Roy Engineering College., Durgapore.
  • Adjunct Faculty of Business School of Amrita Vishwa vidyapeetham