PhD Fellowship

The ORIC revamped the initiative to promote quality research at campus by providing research funds to the meritorious student’s along with stipend to carry out research work without financial constraints. For this purpose a full-fledged PhD Fellowship program to award stipend @ Rs. 10000 per month up to two years and research grant up to Rs. 100,000 on competitive basis

GUIDELINES

  • PhD scholars (other than HEC awardees and not employed in any project) may apply for full / partial funding ‘under PhD Fellowship at UAF on the prescribed format after completing at least two semesters.
  • The project may be submitted in response to ‘Call for Proposals’ issued by ORIC.
  • The PhD scholar will work as prime researcher and will be responsible to design and submit research project, submit progress, audit reports monitoring and evaluation reports. The financial management will be the responsibility of the Researcher’s Supervisor as per university rules/government policies.
  • The projects will be evaluated by a panel of experts at faculty level on the basis of Competitive Grants System (CGS) and only short listed projects will be presented to the Executive Committee for consideration.
  • The supervisor will submit six monthly/final technical report of the project within the stipulated period of time while attendance of the scholar on the prescribed format on monthly basis for release of stipend.
  • Funding (research support: one time and stipend: maximum for two years) will be provided as per research plan.
  • The Project Executive Committee/Internal Monitoring Committee will monitor the activities/progress from time to time. In case of poor performance further release of funds will be blocked and stipend will be discontinued.
  • The Directorate of Graduate Studies and Controller of Examinations will not entertain PhD thesis for evaluation unless it carries a certificate of submission of final technical report/clearance of other pendency’s issued by ORIC.
  • If the agreement is breached by the scholar, he/she will refund the whole amount utilized (research fund and stipend received).
  • Monthly stipend will be released on the production of certificate by the chairman/ director concerned with satisfactory performance and work done in the reporting month.
  • Research fellow will work as full time researcher under framework of the University.
  • 2014-15

    COMPETITIVE GRANTS FOR PhD SCHOLARS

    The ORIC initiated a program for research funding “Competitive Grants for Ph.D. Scholars at UAF” to build the capacity of Ph.D. Scholars for project formulation and to improve the quality of research under this initiative. The selected candidates were provided Rs. 75000/- each to carry out research activities.

    Sr. # Name of Student/ Regd. No Dept./Institute Supervisor
    1 Mr. Rezwan Tariq, 2007-ag-2604 PBG Dr. Rana M. Atif
    Ms. Alia Nasir, 2009-ag-1257 Chemistry Prof. Dr. Ijaz Ahmad Bhutti
    3 Mr. Mohsin Bashir, 2004-ag-1447 Horticultural Sci. Prof. Dr. M. Aslam Khan
    4 Ms. Alia Riffat, 2007-ag-131 Botany Dr. M. Sajid Aqeel
    5 Mr. Usman Saleem, 2007-ag-2221 Soil & Environmental Sci. Dr. Hafiz Naeem Asghar
    6 Anum Sattar, 2007-ag-2088 Soil & Environmental Sci. Dr. Hafiz Naeem Asghar

    2015-16

    PhD Fellowship

    The ORIC revamped the initiative to promote quality research at campus by providing research funds to the meritorious students alongwith stipend to carry out research work without financial constraints. For this purpose a full-fledged PhD Fellowship program to award stipend @ Rs. 10000 per month upto two years and research grant upto Rs. 100,000 on competitive basis was launched. The scholars as detailed below are availing this facility.

    S. # Name of Student/ Regd. No Dept./Institute Supervisor
    1 Zara Jabeen / 2007-ag-886 Biochemistry Prof. Dr. Khalil-ur-Rehman
    2 Farah Gul/ 2014-ag-8075 Botany Dr. M. Arfan
    3 Fariha Latif/ 2012-ag-550 Zoology wildlife and Fisheries Prof. Dr. M. Javed
    4 Umm-e-Habiba/ 2012-ag-518 Biochemistry Prof. Dr. Khalil-ur-Rehman
    5 Muhammad Ashfaq/ 2011-ag-885 Entomology Dr. M. Ahsan Khan
    6 Aisha Khalid Naeem/ 2004-ag-1208 Plant Pathology Dr. M. Imran ul Haq
    7 Muhammad Ahsan Khatana/ 2008-ag-2319 Horticulture Sciences Dr. Muzammil Jahangir
    8 Waqar Shafqat/ 2008-ag-1808 Horticulture Sciences Prof. Dr. M. Jaffar Jaskani
    9 Ghulam Hussain Dilbar/ 2011-ag-590 Theriogenology Prof.  Dr. Zafar Iqbal Qureshi
    10 Furkhanda Kalsoom/ 2014-ag-8230 Microbiology Prof.  Prof. Dr. Sajjad-ur-Rehman
    11 Usman Iqbal/ 2005-ag-2187 Irrigation and Drainage Prof.  Dr. Allah Bakhsh
    12 Anam Ansari/ 2007-ag-1122 NIFSAT Dr. Aamir Shahzad
    13 Farah Ahmad/ 2006-ag-1603 NIFSAT Dr. Imran Pasha

    2016-17

    No Fellowship was awarded during this period


    2017-18

    PhD Fellowship

    In continuation of the initiative to award PhD Fellowships to the meritorious and resource poor scholars to promote quality research at campus, an amount of Rs. 10000 per month upto two years and research grant upto Rs. 100,000 on competitive basis was carried out during the year 2017-18. The following scholars are harvesting the benefits of this initiatives.

    Sr. # Name of Student/ Regd. No. Dept./Inst. Supervisor
    1 Aqsa Mushtaq/ 2012-ag-765 Pharmacy, Physiology & Pharmacology Dr. Bilal Aslam
    2 Muhammad Usman Ghani/ 2014-ag-2363 Soil & Environ. Sciences Dr. Hafiz Naeem Asghar
    3 Rida Siddique/ 2014-ag-2643 Pharmacy, Physiology & Pharmacology Dr. Faqir Muhammad
    4 Noreen Zahra/ 2014-ag-779 Botany Prof. Dr. Abdul Wahid
    5 Nabila Rashid/ 2011-ag-15 Botany Prof. Dr. Abdul Wahid
    6 Fatima Yousaf/ 2014-ag-721 Biochemistry Dr. Muhammad Shahid
    7 Muhammad Tahir Akram/ 2008-ag-2473 Horti. Sciences Dr. Rashad Waseem Khan Qadri
    8 Safeer-ud-Din/ 2010-ag-3437 Horti. Sciences Prof. Dr. Muhammad Jafar Jaskani
    9 Iqra  Aslam/ 2009-ag-2811 PBG Dr. Muhammad Kashif
    10 Amina Iftikhar / 2008-ag-1979 Agronomy Dr. Muhammad Athar Nadeem
    11 Sara Farooq/ 2011-ag-1147 Rural Sociology Prof. Dr. M. Iqbal Zafar
    12 Nida Kanwal/ 2007-ag-1121 NIFSAT Dr. Aamir Shehzad
    13 Muhammad Asim/ 2009-ag-2766 Animal & Dairy Sciences Dr. Muhammad Saif ur Rehman
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