Feedback

Prof. Lavanya Suresh

Associate Professor,
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Decentralization, Political ecology, Public Administration
Cabin no. K108
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Hyderabad Campus
Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal
Dist.-Medchal-500 078
Telangana, India

Research Projects

Role and Name of the project

Funding agency

Sanctioned

Date of completion

Amount in Rs.

Duration

PI

Systematic Assessment and Strengthening of Gender Integration 

 

LEDeG (BORDA South Asia)

 

20th February 2026

 

21st May 2026

(Ongoing)

Rs

1,71,000

 

3 Months

PI

Polycentric Governance of Scarcity in Small-Scale Irrigation

 

PRAGATI (Programme for Rural

Advancement, Growth, and Transformation through Innovation)

7th January 2026

(Completed)

15thFebruary, 2026

Rs.

150000

 

1 Month

PI

Mapping Institutions, Rules, and Norms Defining Commons

Foundation for Ecological Security (FES)

 

12th July 2024

(Completed)

June 2025

Rs. 24,50,000

1 year

PI

Remote sensing enabled public policy analysis of air-pollutants in peri-urban environments: An Indo- Australian case study – (RESPIRE)

Asian Smart Cities Research and Innovation Network (ASCRIN) La Trobe University

4th March, 2021

March 2026

Rs. 14,88,000

5 years

Co-I

Team III: Waste-to-Energy: Technology Integration for production of clean energy from organic waste

DST (PURSE 2020 program)

TPN-57086

February, 2021

(Completed)

Feb 2025

Rs. 26.0 Crores

4 years

Project Partner-

Institutional Changes for Rural Innovation: The Civic Space and the State in India, the 1980s through 2010s

Ford Foundation

September, 2020

(Completed)

29thSeptember 2023

Rs. 68,40,000

(US $ 95,000)

2 Years

Principal Investigator (PI)-

 

Alternative ways of understanding ecological conservation practices to enable justice for all

NALSAR, Hyderabad

September, 2018

(Completed)

01.09.2018

to

30.06.2019

Rs. 2,95,000

8 months

Principal Investigator (PI)-

 

Resistance to the Western Ghats Conservation and Undercurrents:  A study of the people’s protest and the role of the local bodies in Idukki, Kerala

Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Kerala

Sept, 2018

(Completed)

01.09.2018 to
31.03.2020

 

Rs. 3,15,000

16 months

Principal Investigator (PI)-

 

Political Ecology of South India

 

Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research and Academics (OPERA)

Aug, 2017

(Completed)

Aug, 2017 to Aug, 2022

Rs. 22,80,000

5 years

Principal Investigator (PI)-

 

Alternative ecological ways of being

Research Initiation Grant

28th Aug, 2018

(Completed)

Aug, 2018

to

Aug, 2020

Rs. 2,00,000

2 years