Research Interests

Teaching and Research Interests

• Development Studies; Rural Development; Public policy analysis and Governance; Community based natural resource management; Social actors, actor-networks and social change; Participatory community forest management (PCFM); Gender dynamics in PCFM; Gender Mainstreaming: Policy& Practice; Power, Knowledge, Participation and Performance; Local elites and development; Environmental politics and policy; NGOs and development; Poverty, citizenship and local governance; Qualitative Research Methodology; Ethnography; Mixed methods

TEACHING EXPERIENCE at Graduate, Post-Graduate level & PhD level (Prior to joining BITS Pilani)

• Guest Lecturer: “Gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting in India”, in Programme on Gender Budgeting and Auditing coordinated by National Institute of Rural Development, NIRD, Hyderabad. (2013). Delivered lecture for practitioners and bureaucrats of various state governments of India.
• Guest Lecturer: “Invited spaces and informal practices in CBNRM: Gender and situated agency in India”, (2013) IWE33806 (in MSc course offered by Irrigation and Water Management Chair Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands).
• Guest Lecturer: “Local Knowledge, Science and Expertise in Nature and Environment”, FNP32806 (2013) (in BSc, final year course offered by Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Chair Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands).
• Lecturer & Coordinator: Trends in Forest and Nature Conservation (September- October 2012), (MSc course offered by Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Chair Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands); Coordinated overall course structure and administration; delivered lectures and Essay tutorial sessions; administered grades. (Anonymous evaluation of my lectures by MSc/MA participants: 4/5).
• Guest Lecturer: “Gender and natural resource management” (2012) (in MSc course IWE33806 offered by Irrigation and Water Management Chair Group of Wageningen University, the Netherlands). Anonymous evaluation of my lecture by MSc students: 4.75/5).
• FNP & FGV summer school in Rio de Janeiro (June 23-30, 2012), Brazil, Lecturer & Coordinator:Power, Knowledge and performance in participatory forest management. Developed full syllabus for the International PhD level summer school; coordinated overall course structure and administration; delivered lectures and methodology sessions; administered grades. (Anonymous evaluation of my lectures by summer school participants: 4.55/5).
• FNP & WASS summer school in Wageningen University (July 11-15, 2011), The Netherlands, Lecturer & Coordinator: Participatory forest management as practice and performance. Developed full syllabus for the International PhD level summer school; coordinated overall course structure and administration; Raised funds and sponsorships, delivered lectures & methodology sessions; administered grades. (Anonymous evaluation of my lectures by summer school participants: 4.6/5).
• Guest Lecturer: “Local Knowledge, Science and Expertise in Nature and Environment”, FNP32806, (2012) (in BSc course offered by Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Chair Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands). Anonymous evaluation of my lecture by MSc students: 4/5)
• Guest Lecturer: “Gender dynamics in community forest management”, (2011), (in MSc course IWE33806 offered by Irrigation and Water Management Chair Group of Wageningen University, the Netherlands). Anonymous evaluation of my lecture by MSc students: 4.6/5).
• Guest Lecturer: “Participatory approaches in community based development interventions” (2009)(in MA course offered by the Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom).
• Guest Lecturer & Assistant Coordinator: “ISS Training course for senior staff, Aden University, Yemen- for a Higher Studies Diploma in Women’s Studies and Development” Project: (WAU/MSM/ISS/NPT- Yemen/0317). In 2006, held at International Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands).
• Teaching Research Assistant: ‘Gender Policy and Planning’ (In 2006, in MSc course Women Gender and Development 4306 offered at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands).