Noklenyangla aka Ayangti Longkumer is presently an Assistant Professor in History of Science at North East Christian University, Nagaland. She got her M.Phil and PhD degree from Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She completed her research under various merit-based scholarships. Her Doctoral thesis was, ‘Ideational Influence of Bengal Renaissance and Rabindranath Tagore on India’s S&T Policies of Self-Reliance (1937-1964)’. The salient features of her PhD research work were, to synthesize the key parameters of the ideals of Bengal, and Rabindranath Tagore in the realm of self-reliance in general, and scientific and technological self-reliance in particular. To explore to what extent, and in what ways, these thoughts found articulations in independent India’s scientific and technological policy and Renaissance planning (1937-1964).
Right after her Graduation, she worked in The Morung Express newspaper at Dimapur Nagaland. While pursuing her Masters in Political Science from the University of Delhi, she was informally engaged in research projects under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. She worked under the Health Division in the (erstwhile) Planning Commission of India. She was the Senior Research Fellow in the CSIR-National Institute for Science, Technology and Development for a project under CEFIPRA- Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research project for Strengthening Bilateral Collaboration and Cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation between India and France (2013). She was a Researcher (from 1st June to 30th June 2016) under the scheme, ‘Marie Curie Actions International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES) – Crossing Boundaries: Knowledge and Technology Transfer and Innovation (FP7-PEOPLE- 2012- IRSES, Project No 318928’, Tallinn, Estonia.
She has presented and published papers in various national and international forums and journals. Her research interest includes history, sociology, politics and philosophy of science, path-dependency theories, the economics of innovation, culture and its impacts on policy-making, political theories and thinkers, social and political thoughts and Indian polity. Her future plan for research includes an interdisciplinary approach, where she would like to engage herself in an extensive study to examine how the shared mental model shapes a policy-making process.