Prof. Vilas Padhye
Head of the Department
Prof. Vilas Padhye is the Head of the Department of Psychology at Elphinstone College and currently serves as Registrar of Dr. Homi Bhabha State University, Mumbai. A SET-qualified educator with 28 years of teaching experience, he earned his PhD in 2012 for his thesis on teacher assessment by students in higher education in Maharashtra, and developed the Teacher Assessment Scale (TASC) now used across colleges in the state to generate student feedback. He has authored two books in Marathi Manasshastra - Ek Parichay (Psychology: An Introduction) and Adhunik Samanya Manasshastra (Advanced General Psychology), published fifteen research papers in national and international journals, and presented at four international conferences. He is a recognised research guide for the PhD programme in Psychology at Dr. Homi Bhabha State University, and currently leads the NIEPA-funded research project College Readiness and Student Success in Higher Education in Maharashtra: An Empirical Analysis. In 2006, he received the Rajiv Gandhi Prashaskiya Gatimaanta Puraskar from the Chief Minister of Maharashtra for excellence in administrative reform. Beyond academics, he is a committed wildlife conservationist and the writer-director of the award-winning animation film Let's Save Bobby, produced with support from the Blender Foundation (Netherlands) on the theme of tiger conservation.
