The Agricultural and Resource Policy studies focus on the Economic Quantification of the natural resource such as Water, Forestry and Energy utilization, Impacts of Environmental pollution and Climate change on Agriculture and other Natural resources. The research groups also assess the Consumption pattern of agricultural commodities, Food Security, Farmer Producer Organizations and their functional capacity, Technology Transmission in Agriculture etc., It will thrive to provide policy Implications for Climate-smart Agriculture, Sustainable Resource use and better Environmental Management.

The Digital Humanities and Publishing Research Group at IIT Indore is interested in interdisciplinary research that investigates and examines the intersections between technology and the humanities to understand the myriad ways in which technology impacts and transforms our interactions of scholarship. Our research group has collaborations across disciplines and internationally. Some of our work include: a) a digital archive for Minor Partitions, b) a multilingual database indexing project, c) algorithmic literary analysis, using visualization techniques and d) Open Science/Open Access Scholarship.

This research group focuses its work on various domains of Education, including Curriculum Structures and Designs, Pedagogical Approaches and Practices, Language Education, Education Policies, NEP, etc. and various issues in the field of Critical Food Studies including consumption practices, representations, identity intersections, etc., especially in the context of South Asia. The ongoing projects are mostly field-based studies that aim at understanding, documenting, and archiving, various lived experiences and indigenous and local knowledge systems and practices in the area.

This research group focuses on historical-theoretical analyses of Indian Media Economy, Comparative Media Studies, Platform Capitalism, Internet Capitalism, Information Warfare and Environmental Media, along the broad axes of capital, language, migration, celebrity, caste and regionality. Among the ongoing projects, we are focused on the visual politics of mass grief, the media transition from television to streaming, the cultural politics of identity among Hijras vis-a-vis the transgender movement, the cultural-historical analysis of sacred forests in uttarakhand, the platformization of speculation economy, and the indigenous film festivals of eastern India.

The History of Modern India group is concerned with the History of Political Thought and History of Science in the 19th and 20th century.

Focused Research Group in Human Factors is an interdisciplinary team comprised of highly motivated volunteers, U.G. students, P.G. students, and affiliates with diverse academic backgrounds. The group's scientific interest revolves around investigating aspects of applied cognition in system development, design, and evaluation. It emphasizes on addressing real-world issues pertaining to human-systems interaction in the pursuit of technological innovation, improvement, and optimal utilization of human capabilities. Its social-centric research activities are aligned with schemes promoted by Government of India in critical thrust areas of national importance, such as- Technology Interventions for Disabled and Elderly (TIDE), Equity Empowerment and Development (SEED), Department of Science and Technology and R & D in Convergence Communications & Broadband Technologies (CC & BT) Group, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).

The research group on Innovation Studies focuses on issues related to R&D and patenting by Indian firms, Indian universities, and academic institutions. Specifically, we have been working on: a) Foreign firms and innovation b) FDI and innovation by Indian firms c) Product and process innovations d) Market structure and Innovation e) Financing innovations f) Patent valuation g) Non-resident patenting h) Technological capabilities and patent rights. Some new areas that we intend to focus are: i) Innovative startups ii) Innovation and environment iii) Entrepreneurship in India iv) Technology and inequality v) Technology and employment.

The Language Documentation and Archiving Group focuses on preserving and conserving linguistic diversity through meticulous documentation and archiving efforts. Our research group engages in comprehensive fieldwork to document endangered languages, capturing their grammatical structures, vocabularies, and unique linguistic features. We strive to create a robust digital repository of language data, ensuring that future generations can access, study, and revitalize these languages.

This research group investigates a broad spectrum of topics at the nexus of sociolinguistics and cognitive science, with key focus areas including language variation, cognitive sociolinguistics, language attitudes and identity, and the typology of linguistic variation. It also explores language variation and interpretation through archived written documents, extending into the innovative transdisciplinary domain of historical forensic and legal linguistics. The group aims to advance understanding of how social, cognitive, and historical factors interact to shape language use, variation, and interpretation across diverse contexts. Significant ongoing projects of the group include, Assessing the Implementation of Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) among Kerala's PVTGs: Developing Language Teaching Modules based on NEP2020 and Linguistic Complexity and Cognitive Load in Natural Language Processing: A Physio Behavioural Measurement Approach.

The 'Literature, Performance, and Other Arts' group at IIT Indore is focused on the study and the analysis of literary, artistic, and performance texts. The members study the distinct yet deeply interconnected ways of understanding literature and the other arts. Working at the intersections of texts and the social, historical, and cultural contexts that produced them, the group examines the meaning, form, and style of literary and artistic works while exploring their imaginative and creative potential on a performance stage/screen.

Our research group 'Medical Humanities' tries to make sense of different discourses from the biological to the social, economic, political, and aesthetic, that influence health and shape our perceptions of physical and psychological wellbeing. We read literary and visual texts, anatomical and medical illustration of bodies, and together reflect on illness, health, and medicine.

This research group on Migration and Development at IIT Indore focuses interdisciplinary research that broadly include interaction of issues of migration and development. Specifically, this group works on economics of labour migration, sustainable development, groundwater exploitation and agricultural practices, financial inclusion and its dynamic impacts, economics of ageing, cost and benefit analysis of remittances, human capital, assessment of vulnerability to climate change, and socioeconomic impacts of climate change.

The strength of Philosophical research lies in the critical-radical-negatory approach to all forms of knowledge handed over to us in all forms. The focus of both teaching and research here believes in such radical engagement of IDEAS with the WORLD. Such an approach also takes cognizance of both epistemic and non-epistemic systems of knowledge. Particularly, the conviction is to the radical understanding of the HUMAN CONDITION - with specific emphasis on Radical Evil, Political Violence, uselessness of the culture, Protest and Dissent. More interest is toward those infinite forms of expression like aesthetic, art-forms, musical and cinematic imaginations, and revolutionary consciousness. Without a significant grasp of these, any understanding of the social world is distorted and lopsided. The radical approach penetrates deep into the morals of the human fabric - to link to the ideas of the will to power and installing a world beyond good and evil. This is possible only when the radical philosophy itself undergoes radical transformation - embracing radical contingency, where the dialectic is like an ENDLESS RIVER. Philosophers are like soothsayers - have said everything that has to be, but the YETness keeps the ontological a priori of the time-to-come alive. TIme arrives and goes, ideas take their grounding and fade away, great individuals walk the surface of the earth, what remains a permanent possibility is the HORIZON of life [biological & sociological], never fixated upon this or that. This 'this or that' is ever intractable; hence, our obligation to dive into this abyss. Three things are looked at with utter suspicion - the human, the moral and the political. This is the focus of philosophy here.

The group of Social Stratification research is dedicated to qualitative research focused on the sociology of religion, caste, gender, minority studies, and tribal studies. The group works on diverse topics that focus on examining anthropological understanding of social dynamics, and structural forms of inequality and marginalisation, which are deeply embedded in social institutions like religion, caste, prison, tribe, and family that intersect with class and gender, forming resistance, new identity and social change.

The 'Sleep Cognition and Psychology Experimental Laboratory (SCOPE Lab)' focuses on understanding cognitive processes such as memory, attention, and decision-making. Our researchers investigate these processes using experimental approaches that explore how the brain represents, processes, and retrieves information from external stimuli. By integrating sleep studies with cognitive research, we aim to uncover the intricate relationship between sleep and various memory functions, including false memory formation and destination memory. Our experiments are designed following both social and natural science methodologies and strictly adhere to Institute Ethical Protocols (IHEC, IIT Indore). The SCOPE Lab is committed to providing a cutting-edge research environment, offering advanced training in cognition and associated disciplines. Researchers in our lab gain hands-on experience in designing psychological and cognitive experiments using software like E-Prime, PsychoPy, and OpenSesame. Additionally, they receive training in operating research equipment, including EEG, ERP, ECG, and ActiWatch, enabling precise physiological and neurocognitive data collection. Furthermore, the lab emphasizes the use of statistical analysis tools, such as IBM SPSS, R, and MATLAB, to ensure rigorous and efficient research outcomes. By fostering an interdisciplinary research culture, SCOPE Lab aims to advance scientific understanding of cognition and sleep while equipping researchers with the necessary tools to explore the complexities of human memory and cognitive functioning.

Sustainability Research Group works on estimating and modeling efficiency, productivity, valuation and allocation of natural resources and ecosystem services in the areas of food systems: food security, agricultural productivity, rural poverty, and international trade. They also work on climate systems: particularly stakeholder issues, resilience building, adaptive capacity aspects of climate change; and land & forest degradation from urban and rural poor's perspective.