• Migration and Development, ‘Left behind’ families of migrants, Urbanization
• Regional Studies (Middle Ganga Plain and Bhojpuri Speaking Region)
• Application of RS & GIS in Population Studies
- Books: 02
- Book review: 01
- Papers in journals: 10
- Chapters in edited volume: 05
- Paper in proceeding (online): 01
Ongoing Research Projects:
· Coordinator in WHO project on ‘Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE), Wave 2 and Wave 3, India (2015 onwards
· Coordinator in IIPS funded Project on ‘Causes and Consequences of Out Migration from Middle Ganga Plain, India since February 2016
Research Supervision:
- Supervised Ph. D. dissertation (awarded): 03
- Supervision of Ph. D. Dissertation (ongoing): 03
- Guided M. Phil dissertation: 04
- Guided master dissertation: 18
Position Held
- Associate Professor in Population Studies at Department of Migration and Urban Studies, IIPS, Mumbai, India (Since March 26, 2014)
- Assistant Professor in Geography at Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India (from February 1, 2006 to March 25, 2014)
- Assistant Professor in Geography at Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India (from May 24, 2004 to January 31, 2006)
Country Visited
- Netherlands, China, Morocco, France, Singapore, Thailand
Professional Membership
Consulting
Other Info
Work Experience:
15 years of Teaching and Research Experience
(10 years of UG courses and 12 years of PG and higher level courses)
Training conducted :
- Trained 35 faculties under Two-days Faculty Enrichment Workshop as a Resource Person on “Hands-on-Training in SPSS Software”, conducted by Nirmala College, Ranchi, during 25-26 March 2019.
- Conducted a skill development workshop on ‘Data for Urban Planning’ as a resource person at 39th Annual Conference of IASP held at BHU during 18-20 Sept 2018.
Seminars/Workshop organized or co-ordinated:
- IIPSAA Workshop on “Ethics and Integrity in Social Science and Health Research” held at IIPS, Mumbai, during 21-24 February 2018
- IIPS International Seminar on “Population, Health, and Development: Global and National Policy Perspectives” held at New Delhi during 15 – 17 February 2018
- IIPS National Seminar on ‘Population and Development: Issues and Challenges in 21st Century’ held at Nagpur, during 18-19 March 2016
- IIPSAA Workshop on Scientific Writing, held at IIPS, Mumbai, during 11-15 December 2015
- IIPS National Seminar on “Population, Health and Inclusive Development’’ was organized by IIPS & IIPHG, held at Ahmedabad, during 25- 27 February 2015.
- 12th International Asian Urbanization Conference on ‘’Urban Dynamics, Environment and Health: Challenges for the Twenty First Century’’, held at Department of Geography, BHU, during 28-30 December 2013.
- National Seminar on “Population, Development and Environment: Issues and Challenges”, held at the Department of Geography, BHU, during 18-20 February 2010.
- National Seminar on “Urban Governance and Need for Information System” held at the Department of Geography, BHU, during 16-17 March 2009.
Courses/Training Programme Attended:
- Two-day a learning event on ‘Child Protection Data and Measurement’ by UNICEF, at New Delhi on 25-26 February 2019.
- Six-day R-Workshop on “Introduction to R and Spatial Analysis with R Model Approaches, Maps, and Big Geodata” organized at IIPS, August 20-25, 2018.
- Two-day Hands-on-training on SPSS-25 at IIPS during 13-14 March 2018
- One-year part-time Certificate Course in Statistical Methods, 2011-12, Department of Statistics, BHU, Varanasi.
- Workshop on Discovering Statistics by MS-Excel and SPSS, May27-June 4 2013, CIMS, BHU, Varanasi.
- ISRO sponsored training course on “Application of Remote sensing in Cartography and Mapping” 2nd May 2005 to 26th June 2005 at Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (NRSA), Dehradun.
- “1st Summer Programme on “Large Scale Survey Research: Theory and Practice” organized by International Institute for Population Sciences Mumbai, during June 2-20, 2003.
- UGC Refresher Course on Earth Sciences, 4-24 January 2011, Academic Staff College, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
- UGC Orientation Course, 02-29 December 2008, Academic Staff College, Punjab University, Chandigarh.
Current Administrative Responsibilities:
- Staff Welfare Committee IIPS (2017 onwards)
- Publication Cell and Short Term Training (2019)
- IIPSAA (IIPS Alumni Association)- General Secretary (2018)