Industry
Chief Academic Partnership Officer
GrowQR
Building AI-powered learning and employability partnerships with universities and industry.
Chandigarh, India
Dr. Ruchi Sharma
- Academician
- Researcher
- Speaker
- Education Strategist
- Digital Humanities Scholar
- Author
- Artist
Building Bridges Between Education, Innovation and Human Potential
An internationally engaged academician, researcher and education strategist whose work sits at the intersection of higher education, digital humanities, artificial intelligence and creative practice — with over a decade across teaching, academic leadership and international collaboration.
Ideas into Impact, live at the Vice Chancellor's Conference, Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh
- Years teaching
- 11Years teaching
- Journal articles
- 9Journal articles
- Conferences
- 34Conferences
- Granted patents
- 3Granted patents
Where she works now
Five concurrent appointments across a university, an ed-tech company, a research alliance, and a language-assessment consultancy.
Academia
Assistant Professor (Open & Distance Learning)
Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar
Teaching, curriculum development, and digital learning for distance programmes.
Research body
Treasurer
DHARTI, India
Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations — previously Secretary for several years.
Consultancy
Independent Consultant
British Council EnglishScore
Academic partnerships and English language assessment initiatives.
Own venture
Founder
Ruhaan Essence
An independent venture alongside her academic and industry work.
Education must not merely prepare learners for the future — it must empower them to shape it with intelligence, creativity and purpose.
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In the room
Lecterns, classrooms, and award stages
Addressing a university audience at Chitkara University
Speaking
Anchoring the 12th Global Week — 75+ international faculty from 20 countries
2022 · International
With students at Chitkara University
Teaching
Women Icon Award
2022 · Awards
Receiving the Researcher of the Year Award
2013 · Awards
International exchange students at a printmaking workshop
2023 · International
Hosting an international delegation, Office of International Affairs
International
Anchoring a university event with student volunteers
Teaching
An interactive classroom session
Teaching
Felicitated as guest speaker
Speaking
Delivering a lecture at The IIS University, Jaipur
Speaking
At a university academic event
Speaking
Ideas into Impact, live at the Vice Chancellor's Conference, Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh
Speaking
Interviewing Ojaswwee Sharma, National Award-winning film director, producer and screenwriter
Speaking
Workshop for students of Kurukshetra University, Haryana
2026 · Teaching
Workshop for students of the School of Nursing, Chitkara University
Teaching
Empowering people before empowering technology
Teaching
Inspiring people to become stronger than their circumstances
Speaking
Research
Five strands, connected by a single question: who gets to tell a story, and with what tools.
Selected writing
2025
Transnational Feminism in Film 'Antarmahal': Visibility and Representation of Women During Indian Independence
2025
Yug and the Magic Ball
2021
Discursive Power of Enigmatic Stars: Dynamics of Celebrity Culture
2020
(Mis)Representation of Australian Aboriginals in Media in Alexis Wright's The Swan Book
Mentorship
Guidance for students and early-career scholars
Career direction, research supervision, and application review — drawn from a decade of supervising dissertations and advising students on where to go next. Sessions are currently offered free of charge.
Recent talks & papers
2026
Research and career-skills workshop for postgraduate students
2025
Crip Ecologies: Intersections of Disability Studies and Environmental Humanities
2024
Tracing Women's Presence in Their Absence: Culpability of Archiving Partition Narratives at the World's First Partition Museum
International2024