Foster Connection & Collaboration
Create opportunities to connect across disciplines and institutions, allowing collaborative research projects to emerge organically.
Peer-led academic community
Northeast Scholars Network
Connecting researchers, writers, and students in the social sciences and humanities, including shared learning on AI, research practice, and academic communication.
About NSN
A scholarly circle built around care, exchange, and serious work.
NSN creates space for scholars to share research, test ideas, learn emerging tools such as AI, find collaborators, and move through academic life with a stronger peer community.
The Northeast Scholars Network is a community-driven collective for scholars in the social sciences and humanities, hailing from Northeast India and across the country. It was born from the understanding that the academic journey, while rewarding, can also be isolating.
This is not a top-down mentorship program but a circle of peers. Members support one another through proposal development, writing, publication, fieldwork, presentation, and the everyday uncertainties of academic work.
Our mission is to create an inclusive space where scholars can share work, exchange ideas, learn responsible uses of AI in research and writing, and receive support at every stage of their academic journey.
Objectives
What the network is here to do.
The network is guided by shared learning, reciprocity, and practical support for scholars at different stages.
Promote Open Dialogue
Encourage thoughtful discussions on research topics, methods, findings, and the intellectual questions shaping Northeast India studies.
Offer Peer-to-Peer Support
Share guidance for the research lifecycle, from proposals and fieldwork to writing, publication, and presentations.
Amplify Research & Voices
Provide platforms for public scholarship, policy-relevant discussion, and visibility for emerging scholars and their work.
Sessions
Regular formats for collaborative learning.
NSN sessions are designed to be practical, generous, and intellectually serious without becoming intimidating.
Proposal & Writing Clinics
Peer-led sessions for research proposals, thesis chapters, article drafts, and conference abstracts.
Works-in-Progress Forum
A constructive space to present ongoing work and receive feedback from scholars across fields.
AI, Methods & Tools Exchange
Short practical sessions on archives, fieldwork, academic databases, AI tools, publishing, and presentations.
AI & Research
Learning how to use AI carefully in academic work.
AI is becoming an important part of research practice. NSN treats it as something scholars need to understand critically, ethically, and practically.
Not shortcuts, but sharper scholarly habits.
The network explores how AI can support literature searches, note-making, research planning, writing revision, presentation preparation, and public scholarship while keeping scholarly judgement, citation ethics, and intellectual responsibility at the centre.
AI Literacy for Researchers
Understanding what AI tools can and cannot do, where they help, and where they can mislead.
Responsible Research Workflows
Using AI for brainstorming, organisation, and revision without replacing evidence, fieldwork, or careful reading.
Academic Communication
Learning how to explain research through talks, short videos, visual summaries, and public-facing writing.
Instagram Videos
Watch NSN conversations in short form.
The Instagram page extends the network beyond meetings, using short videos to make academic life, research skills, and AI conversations easier to access.
AI in research
Using AI for research work
Videos and posts on how AI can support reading, writing, organisation, and research communication when used responsibly.
Academic skills
Making academia more accessible
Short explainers on research habits, academic confidence, proposal writing, and tools that help scholars keep moving.
Public scholarship
Research beyond the seminar room
Updates, reflections, and video-based conversations that help scholarly ideas travel to wider communities.
Follow @northeast_scholars_network for new videos, announcements, and practical research conversations.
Who Can Join
A home for scholars at different stages.
The network welcomes people who want to think, write, and build scholarly community with seriousness and generosity.
- Postgraduate and doctoral researchers
- Early-career academics and independent scholars
- Researchers working on Northeast India
- Scholars in the social sciences and humanities
How participation works
Members can join discussions, present work in progress, attend writing and skill-sharing sessions, and help shape future themes. New sessions and calls for participation are shared through the mailing list and Instagram.
Coordination
Peer-led, transparent, and collaborative.
NSN is shaped by a rotating peer coordination model so the network remains open, participatory, and responsive to members.
Programme Coordination
Plans session formats, invites speakers or discussants, and keeps events aligned with member needs.
Member Support
Helps new members find relevant conversations, presentation opportunities, and peer feedback spaces.
Public Communication
Shares updates, calls, and highlights through email and social platforms so the community stays informed.
Contact
Get in touch with NSN.
Join the network, ask a question, or follow along for announcements and upcoming sessions.