Farhat Naz

Welcome

I am Associate Professor and the Former Head of School of Liberal Arts (SoLA) at Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur (IITJ). I am a development sociologist by academic training, with a focus on Sustainability, Policy and Governance processes.

My research is interdisciplinary. I have a wide ranging research experience, in working on bilateral and multilateral research projects: funded by GIZ, ACIAR, IUCN, CGIAR, NWO, USAID, DFID, SICI, and Ministry of Minority Affairs, Govt. of India, to name a few. I have conducted development research in a diverse array of countries of South Asia (India, Bangladesh), South-East Asia (Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Philippines, Indonesia) and Africa (Kenya, Cote d’Ivoire). I am also a member of ‘Civil Society Research Collective’ research team at the Wageningen University (Netherlands), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (India) and Lehigh University (USA). Furthermore, I am an affiliated faculty with the Center for Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Development, and Centre for Technology Foresight & Policy at IITJ.

My professional strengths include not limited to, quantitative and qualitative research methods, and scenario analysis, with a seamless response to an array of policy, development and governance roadblocks, and examining pathways from the lens of development studies and economic sociology.

Prior to joining IITJ, I had worked at Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands; World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), Vietnam/Kenya; International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Sri Lanka; Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi; and Kamala Nehru College for Women, University of Delhi, India.

Please feel free to contact me via email at: farhat@iitj.ac.in

THEMATIC EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH INTEREST : Natural Resource Management, Water Governance, Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Risk Sustainability, Socio-Ecological Systems Thinking, Climate Risk Communication , Ecological Risk Assessment, Resilience, Poverty Reduction, Agroforestry, Agriculture, Gender, Social Exclusion, Caste, Sanitation, CSOs, Diaspora Studies, Governance Studies, Public Goods & Services Management

LANGUAGES : English, German, Vietnamese, Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali

Education

Ph.D., Development Studies, Centre for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany

M.A., Public Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

M.Phil., Sociology, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

M.A., Sociology, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

B.A., (Honours) in Sociology, Hindu College, University of Delhi, India

High School and All India Senior Secondary School Examination, Mater Dei Convent, New Delhi, India

Professional Experience

2022 - Present : Associate Professor of Sociology, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur

2022 - 2024 : Head, School of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur

2019 - 2022 : Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur

2018 - 2019 : Researcher, Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands

2017 - 2017 : Consultant, Aga Khan Foundation

2014 - 2016 : Post-Doctoral Fellow-Gender, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) HaNoi, Vietnam

2013 - 2014 : Special Project Scientist (Social Science), International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka

2012 - 2012 : Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, India

2005 - 2007 : Guest Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Kamala Nehru College for Women, University of Delhi, India

Fellowships, Honors & Awards

2024 : DAAD international seminar grant 2024 on 'Energy Justice in the Global South: A Discourse for a Sustainable Future'

2023 : DAAD international workshop grant 2023 on 'Climate Change a Socio-Geological Perspective'

2023 : Global Forum and Agriculture, and International Green Week, Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Government of Germany and DAAD

2022 : DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) South Asia Research Ambassador for 2022-2025

2022 : IIT Jodhpur Institute Award for Moonshot Project Idea

2022 : DAAD Visiting Grant, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany

2021 : IIT Jodhpur Institute Award for Research Excellence - Young Researcher Award for Outstanding Contribution in Sociological Aspects of Water Management

2021 : Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, Golden Jubilee Conference and Lecture Series Grant (GJCLSG)

2019 : DAAD Visiting Grant, TH Koln-University of Applied Sciences & Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany

2018 : DAAD, Visiting Grant, University of Siegen & Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany

2018 : GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) Travel Grant, Gender Workshop, Germany

2017 : GIZ Travel Grant, Gender & Agriculture Workshop, Germany

2016 : Endeavour Scholarship, Government of Australia

2015 : DAAD Visiting Grant, University of Freiburg, Germany

2015 : Visiting Scholarship, Brown University, USA

2015 : GIZ Travel Grant, Climate Change & Agriculture Workshop, Germany

2014 : DAAD Visiting Grant, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

2014 : ETSD 2014 SAGE Best Paper Award, International Sociological Association Conference

2014 : Endeavour Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Government of Australia

2013 : GIZ Travel Grant, Water Governance Workshop, Germany

2013 : DAAD Visiting Grant, United Nations University (UNU-EHS), Bonn & Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany

2013 : DAAD Young Ambassador, DAAD and German Embassy, New Delhi, India

2013 : DAAD Visiting Grant, Stuttgart-University of Hohenheim, Germany

2013 : DAAD Visiting Grant, University of Applied Sciences, Rottenburg, Germany

2013 : UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) Asia-Pacific Leadership Scholarship, China

2013 : Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Visiting Grant, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK

2012 : DAAD Visiting Grant, Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics, Cologne, Germany

2011 : Visiting Scholarship, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway, awarded by International Society of Ecological Economics & the European Society of Ecological Economics

2010 : Travel Grant by AGRINATURA Association: The European Alliance on Agriculture Knowledge for Development, for Visiting Swiss Federal Institute for Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland

2008 : Merit certificate of PhD Disciplinary Doctoral Course, for securing 0.7 equal to 112 % (Excellent) in German Grading System

2007 : DAAD PhD Scholarship, Government of Germany

2007 : Felix scholarship, SOAS (University of London) for Masters in Anthropological Research

2004 : University Grants Commission’s National Eligibility Test (NET) Examination, Sociology

- Senior School (10+2: CBSE): Merit certificate from All India Senior Secondary School Examination (CBSE) for highest score in Sociology at All India level

- All India Merit Scholarship for top performance in All India Senior Secondary School (CBSE) Exam

- Leaving Exam, with prizes in all exam subjects (Sociology, Economics, History, Political Sciences, English) from the Mater Dei Convent, New Delhi, India

- Highest score (Ranked School Topper) in All India Senior Secondary School Examination (CBSE), in Humanities stream at Mater Dei Convent, New Delhi, India

Publications

Books

2014 : Farhat Naz, The Socio-Cultural Context of Water: Study of a Gujarat Village, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi.

Journals

2024 : Amir Sohel and Farhat Naz, The Bishnoi: Revisiting Religious Environmentalism and Traditional Forest and Wildlife Management in the Thar Desert, Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia (Summer 2024), no. 10. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.

2023 : Farhat Naz and Rachel Philip, ‘Evolution of the Academic and Research Units at IIT Jodhpur: A Vibrant and Incredible Journey: Reflections on the First Anniversary of the School of Liberal Arts,’ Special Issue 15 years of IIT Jodhpur, Science and Education Magazine TechSpace: IITJ, Vol.4, Issue 1, August 2023.

2023 : Accepted: Alok Ranjan, George Kodimattam Joseph, Farhat Naz, Impact of Drinking Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene on Health: Insights from India’s 75th Round National Sample Survey, 2017-18, Journal of Health Management, 27 (3) (June, 2025 issue).

2022 : Amir Sohel, Farhat Naz and Bidhan Kanti Das, Who is Gaining, Who is Losing? Examining Benefit Sharing Mechanism (BSM) under REDD+ in India, Environmental Sciences Proceedings of The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Forests — Exploring New Discoveries and New Directions in Forests, MDPI, Switzerland. https://sciforum.net/manuscripts/ 13057/manuscript.pdf

2022 : George Kodimattam Joseph and Farhat Naz, Intergenerational Fairness: Lessons from Pandemic Contexts, Springer Nature Social Sciences, 212 (2):1-19

2022 : Farhat Naz, Land Grabbing in Common Property Resources: How Women Social Positions Intersect Access to Natural Resources, Sociological Bulletin , 71(3): 371-395.

2021 : Farhat Naz and George Kodimattam Joseph, Climate Change, Gender Vulnerability, and Disaster: Viewpoint on the Himalayan Region, Eastern Anthropologist , 74(4): 485-501. (UGC-Care Journal).

2021 : Farhat Naz, Editorial: ‘Landscape of Sanitation in India: Reflections on Swachhta’, Special Issue: Indian Anthropologist, 51(2): 1-6. https://www.jstor.org/stable/e27139726

2021 : George Kodimattam Joseph and Farhat Naz, 'Water, Sanitation, and the Cry of the Excluded,’ Special Issue: Indian Anthropologist, 51(2): 7-21. https://www.jstor.org/stable/e27139726

2021 : Hananto Kurnio, Alexander Fekete, Farhat Naz, Celia Norf and Robert Jüpner, Resilience Learning and Indigenous Knowledge of Earthquake Risk in Indonesia, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 62. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article

2021 : George Kodimattam Joseph and Farhat Naz, 'Ethics, Professional Life, and the New Curriculum of IITJ', Science and Education Magazine TechSpace: IITJ, Vol.1, Issue 3, August 2021.

2020 : Farhat Naz and George Kodimattam Joseph, Human Security Framework for COVID-19 Management: Lessons from the Kerala Model, Special Issue on Articulations of a Pandemic Researching and Navigating South Asia in the Times of Covid-19, Chakra: Nordic Journal of South Asian Studies, (1): 37-46.

2020 : Margit van Wessel, Farhat Naz and Sarbeswar Sahoo, Complementarities in CSO Collaborations: How Working with Diversity Produces Advantages, VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-020-00227-4

2019 : Farhat Naz, Gender Division of Labour in Rural Gujarat: Hierarchy, Untouchable Women and the Case of Water, Special Issue: Ecology of Work, Lahore Journal of Policy Studies, 8(1): 37-58.

2017 : Marie-Charlotte Buisson, Jane Curnow and Farhat Naz, The Gap between Water Management and Water Users: Gendered Disabilities from Southwest Bangladesh, Special Issue on Water Justice, Gender and Disability, South Asian Water Studies Journal, 5(4): 28-41.

2016 : Farhat Naz, Gendered Groundwater Market in Rural Gujarat, India: An Unequal and Patriarchal Space, Indian Anthropologist, 46(1): 31-46.

2015 : Carol Colfer, Delia Catacutan and Farhat Naz, Introduction: Contributions and Gaps in Gender and Agroforestry, Special Issue: Gender in Agroforestry, International Forestry Review, 17(S4): 1-10.

2015 : Delia Catacutan and Farhat Naz, Gender Roles, Decision-Making and Challenges to Agroforestry Adoption in Northwest Vietnam, Special Issue: Gender in Agroforestry, International Forestry Review, 17(S4): 22-32.

2015 : Farhat Naz, Water, Water Lords, and Caste: A Village Study from Gujarat, India, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 26(3): 89-101.

2015 : Farhat Naz and Marie-Charlotte Buisson, Multiple Actors, Conflicting Roles and Perverse Incentives: The Case of Poor Operation and Maintenance of Coastal Polders in Bangladesh, In Humphreys, E., T.P. Tuong, M.C. Buisson, I. Pukinskis and M. Phillips (ed.), Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone: Turning Science into Policy and Practices. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF), pp. 147-161.

2012 : Farhat Naz, Negotiating Identities in a Dangerous Field, Economic and Political Weekly, XLVII (25): 97-101.

2007 : Farhat Naz, Swaminarayan Movement and Gujarati Diasporic Identity, Man in India, 87(1-2): 129-136.

Book Chapters

2024 : Farhat Naz, Case Study 72: ‘Nizamuddin Auliya: The Saint of Basti Nizamuddin, New Delhi, India,’ In Anna-Daan, Food Charity in India- Preaching and Practices, (eds.) K.V.Raju and S. Manasi, pp. 604-610, Routledge: London and New York.

2024 : Kritika Mishra & Farhat Naz, Case Study 74: ‘Ajmer Dargah Sharif: Khawja Gharib Nawaz – (benefactor of the poor) Ajmer, Rajasthan, India,’ In Anna-Daan, Food Charity in India- Preaching and Practices, (eds.) K.V.Raju and S. Manasi, pp. 612- 616, Routledge: London and New York.

2018 : Farhat Naz, Adivasis Water Exchange and Caste-Based Water Lords: A Case of Groundwater Market in a Village of Gujarat, India, In. Adivasi Rights and Exclusion in India, (ed.) V.Srinivasa Rao, pp. 100-115, Routledge, India.

2017 : Farhat Naz, Marie-Charlotte Buisson and Archishman Mitra, Downscaling Climate Change: Perceptions and Adaptive Behaviors of Rural Farmers in West Bengal, India, In. Bottom-up approaches in Governance and Adaptation for Sustainable Development: Case Studies from India and Bangladesh, (eds.) P.Swarnakar, S.Zavestoski and B. K.Pattnaik, pp. 233-254, Sage Publications, India.

Technical Reports/ Policy Briefs/ Manual/ Working Papers (Peer Reviewed)

2019 : Margit van Wessel, Suparana Katyaini, Yogesh Mishra, Farhat Naz, B. Rajeshwari, Rita Manchanda, Reetika Syal, Nandini Deo, Sarbeswar Sahoo, ‘Civil society dynamics: Shaping roles, navigating contexts’. Wageningen: Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and Lehigh University, USA.

2019 : Margit van Wessel, Nandini Deo, Rita Manchanda, Sarbeswar Sahoo, B. Rajeshwari, Suparana Katyaini, Reetika Syal, Farhat Naz and Yogesh Mishra, ‘Starting from the South Advancing Southern leadership in civil society advocacy collaborations’. Wageningen: Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and Lehigh University, USA.

2018 : Margit van Wessel, B. Rajeshwari, Farhat Naz, Yogesh Mishra, Suparana Katyaini, Sarbeswar Sahoo, Reetika Syal, Nandini Deo, ‘Navigating possibilities of collaboration. How representative roles of diverse CSOs take shape’. Wageningen: Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and Lehigh University, USA.

2016 : Margaret Kroma, Ana Maria Paez Valencia, Patti Kristjanson, Evelyn Kiptot, Delia Catacutan, Christine Jost, Farhat Naz, ‘Gender Strategy and Action Plan’. World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Kenya.

2015 : Delia Catacutan and Farhat Naz, ‘A Guide for Gender Mainstreaming in Agroforestry Research and Development’. World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Vietnam.

2015 : Farhat Naz, ‘India’ In: Grinda, C, Norf, C, Blatgen, T & Fekete, A (eds.), Country Profiles of Climate and Disaster Extremes in 16 Countries. Integrative Risk and Security Research, Volume 1, Cologne, pp 28-30.

2014 : Marie-Charlotte Buisson, Bharat Sharma, Farhat Naz, Archisman Mitra, Nandish Kenia, Nepal C. Dey, Ratnajit Saha and Anindita Bhattacharjee, Sibbir Ahmad, 'Food Security, Water Productivity and Poverty: Comparative study between India (West Bengal) and Bangladesh (Southwest region)'. A Joint Study Report by International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and BRAC- Dhaka submitted to ― ‘Ecosystems for Life: A Bangladesh- India Initiative’ of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

2013 : Farhat Naz, ‘Nine Technical Reports: Situation Analysis Reports on Nine Polders of South West Bangladesh’. International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Sri Lanka and India

2010 : Farhat Naz and V.S.Saravanan, Water Management across Space and Time in India, ZEF Working Paper Series WP61 Bonn, Germany.

Book Reviews

2023 : Farhat Naz, (Book Review) Sumit Saurabh Srivastava, "Sulabh Sanitation in India: Issues, Challenges and Prospects", 2022; Indian Anthropologist, Jan- Dec 2023, 53(1-2), pp.186-188.

2023 : Farhat Naz, (Book Review) Maryam Wasif Khan, "Who Is a Muslim? Orientalism and Literary Populisms” Sociological Bulletin, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380229221151063

Blog/Newsletter

2022 : Farhat Naz. Guest Editor for the June Newsletter of the international forum of the ISTR Asia Pacific. Link: https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.istr.org/resource/ resmgr/asia_pacific_network/ istrapnewsletter_202206.pdf

2019 : Farhat Naz and Margit van Wessel. ‘Taking advantage of CSO diversity through collaboration’. Research programme investigating the new roles of Civil Society Organizations for inclusive development, with civil society advocacy collaborations in India. Link: https://includeplatform.net/taking-advantage-of-cso-diversity-through-collaboration/

Conferences, Seminars & Invited Presentations

Invited Talks

2024 : Keynote speaker in the Capacity Building Programme on ‘Sustainability of Water Sources in Rural Areas’, organized by IITJ-Jal Jeevan Mission ‘Centre for Sustainable Drinking Water’.

2024 : ZEF 25 International Conference, ‘Sustainable Solutions, Shared Futures: Development Research for the 21st Century’, at the University of Bonn, Germany.

2024 : New Approaches to Economy and Society: Exploring Popular Economy as a Research Agenda,’ a two-day workshop organized by School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Mandi & Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IISER Mohali in collaboration with The New Political Economy Initiative, IIT Bombay.

2024 : Moderator at the Indo-German Conference on 'Innovation and Global Cooperation for Sustainability', SDG 13 Climate Change – Mitigating Climate Change through Knowledge Transfer and Capacity Building (I), at New Delhi, organised by DAAD and Government of Germany.

2024 : Invited Speaker on ‘Community Engagement and Social Resilience’, in Navigating Change: Adapting to Hydroclimatic Extremes, seminar organised by the Department of Civil & Infrastructure Engineering, IIT Jodhpur.

2024 : Invited Speaker on ‘Role of Research and Development in the Higher Education’, in the Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Programme: National Education Policy (NEP 2020) Orientation & Sensitization, organised by IUCAA (Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics) - Astronomy Centre for Educators, Pune, India.

2023 : Invited Speaker on ‘Ethics of Research: Data Sharing, Research Funding, and Publication’, in the CEP course on ‘Formulating Research Proposal’, organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Science, IIT Kharagpur.

2023 : Chaired a panel session on CoA_S2 'Critique of Anthropology Panel for Young Anthropologists' at the 19th IUAES- WAU World Anthropology Congress 2023, Marginalities, Uncertainties, and World Anthropologies: Enlivening Past and Envisioning Future, held at University of Delhi, India.

2023 : Invited speaker and panel member at the Forum, titled “Public Sociology and Scholarly Communication", of XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia, co-organized by RC24 and Routledge, Taylor and Francis Publishers

2023 : Invited speaker at the 19th IUAES-WAU World Anthropology Congress Internship Program Lecture Series - Dynamics of Water: Through the Lens of Governance

2023 : Invited Speaker at the University of Gottingen, Germany - India Forest Policy in Context of Climate Change: The Way Forward

2022 : Invited Speaker at the ISTR (International Society for Third-Sector Research) Panel Discussion Webinar on Responding to Crises: Civil Society Experiences in Different Asia-Pacific Regimes – ‘The Case of the State Kerala in India'

2022 : Invited Speaker at the 6th Faculty Development Program organized by UGC-HRDC (University Grant Commission-Human Resource Development Center) at University of Allahabad

2021 : Second CIPSH International Academy on Chinese Cultures and Global Humanities Seminar on 'Global Challenges and Global Ethics in a time of Pandemic and Climate Change' organized by the Union Académique Internationale (UAI) in collaboration with the Stockholm China Center at the Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP), Stockholm, Sweden

2020 : Plenary Speaker in National E-Seminar on Ecological Crises and Climate Change in the Himalayan Region, organised by Society for Himalayan Environment and People’s Action (SHERPA) in collaboration with Department of Sociology, University of Lucknow & Ethnographic and Folk Culture Society (EFCS), Lucknow, India

2020 : Webinar, on COVID-19 Pandemic Disaster: Water, Agriculture & Environment, organised by Center for Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Development (CETSD), Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India

2019 : TH Köln University of Applied Sciences, Germany

2019 : Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

2018 : GIZ (German Development Agency) Headquarters, Eschborn, Germany

2018 : Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

2017 : GIZ Headquaters, Bonn, Germany

2015 : Humboldt University, Berlin & GIZ (German Development Agency), Germany

2013 : University of Applied Sciences, Rottenburg, Germany

2013 : Goethe-Institut /Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi, India

2013 : German Embassy, New Delhi, India

2012 : Indo-German Urban Mela, German Embassy, New Delhi, India

2012 : Institute for Technology & Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics, Cologne, Germany

Conference, Seminar & Workshop Presentations

2024 : Presented paper at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference, at the Imperial College London.

2024 : Presented papers at the ISTR Global conference, held at University of Antwerp, Belgium.

2023 : Presented a paper at the 19th IUAES-WAU World Anthropology Congress 2023, held at University of Delhi, Delhi, India.

2023 : Presented Papers and chaired sessions at the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne, Australia.

2023 : Injustice in a World of Uncertainty - World Convention in Mikkeli, Finland, organised by South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences.

2022 : Navigating Uncertain Futures - International Virtual Conference, organised by International Sociological Association and American Sociological Association’s on Environmental Sociology.

2022 : Reframing Water and Climate Resilience - Online Symposium, organised by University of Reading (UK), The Institute of Development Studies (UK) and European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), UK

2022 : Development amidst the COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond: Where do we go from here? - International Virtual Conference, organised by CASID (The Canadian Association for the Study of International Development)

2022 : Anthropology in India-Contemporary Debates and Future Possibilities Conference, organised by the IUAES-WAU World Anthropology Pre-Congress 2022, India

2021 : Un/Predictable Environments: Politics, Ecology, Agency - International Virtual Conference, organised by Queen's University Belfast (UK), University of British Columbia (Canada), and University of Allahabad (India)

2019 : Asia Pacific Regional Conference (ISTR) Bangkok, Thailand

2019 : Workshop, Civil Society Dynamics, Kochi, India

2019 : Workshop, International Institute of Social Studies, Hague, Netherlands

2017 : Seminar, Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla, India

2014 : CPWF-GBDC-WLE Conference, BRAC, Dhaka, Bangladesh

2014 : ETSD 2014, International Sociological Conference

2014 : Deepening Democracy through Participatory Local Governance - Conference, Kerala, India

2013 : Conference, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan

2013 : Seminar, Centre for Women’s Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, India

2012 : Seminar, University of Hyderabad, India

2011 : Seminar, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India

2011 : Seminar, Institute for African and Asian Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

2011 : Workshop, Albert-Ludwig University Freiburg, Germany

2010 : Conference, Swiss Federal Institute for Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

2010 : Conference, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Hague, Netherlands

2007 : Seminar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

2007 : Conference, University of Rouen, France

Teaching

Courses taught at Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur

Introduction to Policy Studies (PG Core)

Political and Cultural Ecology (UG Core)

Understanding Social Realities (PG Core)

Professional Ethics I (Institute wide compulsory course for UG)

Professional Ethics II (Institute wide compulsory course for UG)

Ethics and Professional Life (Institute wide compulsory course for PG)

Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (Curated) (UG Core)

Environment and Development (Curated) (UG Core)

Indian Society: A Sociological Introduction (Curated) (UG Core)

Politics of Water Governance (Curated) (UG + PG Elective)

Climate Change and Society (Curated) (UG + PG Elective)

Gender and Society (UG + PG Elective)

Professional Activities

Workshops Attended

2021 : Online two-weeks Capacity Building-cum-Faculty Development Programme on 'Industrialization, Corporate Sector and Development', organised by Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID), New Delhi

2020 : Workshop - International online workshop on ‘From Ship to Coast: Blue Economy and Sustainable Livelihood’, organised by DWIH (German Centre for Research and Innovation) and German Maritime Museum / Leibniz Institute for Maritime History

2020 : Workshop - Development Economics organized by International Growth Centre, directed by the London School of Economics (LSE) and University of Oxford, along with the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) Thiruvananthapuram and IIM, Shillong

2020 : Workshop - International virtual workshop - ‘Improvising Strategies for Social Research: Methodological Concerns’, organised by Indian Anthropological Association & Anthropology Without Borders

2019 : Workshop - Socio-Economic Impact Assessment of S&T outcomes for Women Scientists/Technologists, Department of Science & Technology (DST), Ministry of Science & Technology in India, Govt. of India

2016 : Workshop – Agroforestry Adoption & Policy Measures in Central Highlands, Vietnam

2015 : Training - Gender Norms & Research, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Baños, Philippines

2014 : Gender training - Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture & Food Security, Southeast Asia, Ho Chi Minh City & Can Tho City, Vietnam

2014 : Training - Climate Change & Sustainable Natural Resource Management, Centre for Rural Development, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

2014 : Workshop - Policy Advocacy Training & Planning, IUCN, Bangladesh-India Initiative, New Delhi, India

2013 : Stakeholder Workshop – Water Management & Governance, BRAC, WorldFish & IRRI, Dhaka, Bangladesh

2013 : Workshop - Coping with Disasters & Climate Extremes, United Nations University-Institute for Environment & Human Security (UNU-EHS), Bonn, Germany

2013 : Stakeholder Community Partnership Leadership Training – BRAC, WorldFish, IWMI & IRRI, Dhaka, Bangladesh

2013 : Workshop - Effective Training Methodologies, GIZ, New Delhi, India

2013 : Workshop - Pathways to Sustainability, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK

2009 : Workshop - Interpretative Data Analysis, Georg-August-University Gottingen, Germany

2008 : Workshop - Role of Vulnerability in Disaster Risk Management, United Nations University-Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) Bonn, Germany

2007 : Workshop - Intercultural Seminar, Rosbach, Germany

Professional Workshops Conducted

2023 : International Conference on Climate Change: A Socio-Geological Perspective at IITJ

2015 : Workshop, Gender Sensitization in Research: Concepts & Tools for Gender Analysis, New Delhi, India

2015 : Gender Implementing-Team (GIT) Annual Meeting & Training Workshop, Chiang Mai, Thailand

2014 : Training Workshop on Gender Sensitization & Awareness in Research: Concepts & Tools for Gender Analysis, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

2014 : Gender Implementing-Team (GIT) Annual Meeting & Training Workshop, HaNoi, Vietnam

2014 : Training Workshop on Gender Awareness & Methods for Gender Analysis, Lima, Peru

Professional Memberships

British Association for South Asian Studies

Development Studies Association

Indian Society for Ecological Economics

International Society for Third-Sector Research

Canadian Association for the study of International Development

Indian Sociological Society

Indian Anthropological Association

RC11- Sociology of Environment, Indian Sociological Society

International Sociological Association

RC24 - Environment and Society, International Sociological Association

RC39 - Sociology of Disasters, International Sociological Association

Services

Reviewer

Editorial Board Member - SN Social Sciences Journal (Springer Nature); International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR), International Publication Committee; Reviewer: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction - Elsevier; Cultural Dynamics - Sage Journal; Journal of Rural Studies - Elsevier; HydroResearch - Elsevier; Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space - Sage

Institute Service

Member, Institute Centralized Furniture Procurement Committee (2024 - Present)

Member, Institute Committee for Evaluation of Best PhD Thesis Award (2024 - Present)

Institute Diversity Officer (2023 - Present)

Member, Institute Disciplinary Committee (2023 - Present)

Member, Institute Student Wellness Committee (2023 – Present)

Member, Institute Roster Committee (2023 - Present)

Member, Institute Anti-Ragging Committee (2023 - Present)

Member, Institute Academic Committee (2022 - Present)

Member, Institute Executive Committee of the Senate ECS (2022 - Present)

Member, Institute Senate (2022 - Present)

Member, Institute Committee to initiate the process of Establishing School of Liberal Arts (2022)

Member, Institute Ethics Committee (2020 - Present)

Member, Institute Grievance Redressal Committee (2020 - Present)

Member, Institute Vision Coordination Committee (2021-22)

Member, Institute Internal Complaints Committee (2019-22)

Department Service (HSS/SoLA)

Chair, SoLA Committee for Winter School on ‘Frontiers in Computational Social Sciences’ (2023-24)

Member, CTFP (Centre for Technology Foresight & Policy) Department Research Committee (2023 - Present)

Member, CETSD (Center for Emerging Technology for Sustainable Development) Department Research Committee (2022-23)

Chair, SoLA Faculty Appraisal Committee (2023 - Present)

Chair, SoLA Academic Audit Report Committee (2023 - Present)

Chair, SoLA Open House Padharo 2.0 Task Force (2023)

Chair, SoLA Task Force for Exhibition on Quindecennial Celebrations of IITJ (2023)

Chair, School Faculty Board Committee (2022 - Present)

Chair, SoLA Biannual Newsletter Committee (2022 - Present)

Chair, HSS/SoLA Report Review Committee (2022)

Chair, SoLA Vision Implementation Core Team (2023 - Present)

Chair, SoLA Committee for Winter School on Computational Methods for Social Sciences (2022)

Member, M.Sc CSS Admission (2022 - Present)

Member, Centre Research Committee of CETSD (2022 - Present)

Member, Event management/ Cultural Committee (2022 - Present)

Member, Comprehensive Exam Committee (2022 - Present)

Member, Budget and LDC Committee (2022 - Present)

Chair, Department Research Committee (2022)

Faculty Advisor for MSc Computational Social Science (2022)

Chair, Comprehensive Exam Committee (2021 - 2022)

Chair, Department Seminars (2021 - 2022)

Member, Vision Implementation Core Team (2021 - Present)

Member, Department/School Research Committee (2021 - Present)

Convener, Department Faculty Board (2019-2020)

Member, Laboratory Development Committee (2020-2021)

Research Grants

2024 - 2026 : Digital Pedagogical Tools on Environmental Crises in the Sundarbans, India, (funded by JPN National Center of Excellence in Humanities, IIT Indore), Co-Principal Investigator

2024 - 2026 : International Research Project on Civil Society in Asia-Pacific funded by International Society for Third Sector Research, Principal Investigator

2022 - 2023 : Mapping the Waqf in Rajasthan, Ministry of Minority Affairs, Govt. of India, Co-Principal Investigator

2021 - ongoing : Water Security and Climate Change Adaptation to Desertification, (Young Faculty Award Research Grant), Principal Investigator

2021 : Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, Golden Jubilee Conference and Lecture Series Grant (GJCLSG), Principal Investigator

2015 - 2016 : Global Gender Norm Study, North-West Vietnam, (CGIAR funded), Principal Investigator