डॉ. बी. आर. अम्बेडकर विश्‍वविद्यालय दिल्ली
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi
Established by The Government of NCT of Delhi

• PhD in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Title of the Thesis: From Citizen’s Right to Consumers Choice: Delhi’s Transport Revolution (1990 to 2006)

• Senior Researcher (based in Delhi) on collaborative research projects between University of Sussex and Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2011 – 2017
• Research Officer, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, May 2008 – Dec 2010

• Urban planning and policy, politics of urban infrastructures, rural-urban linkages, urban activism, informality

• Visiting Fellow, Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex, April 2016 – July 2016

Book Chapter

• Negi R, Mehra R, Randhawa P (2024). Researching the ‘Urban Turn’: Interdisciplinary Methods to Study Cities and Regions in Babu. P. Remesh and Ratheesh Kumar (eds), Practicing Interdisciplinarity: Convergences and Contestations, Routledge. ISBN 9781032195759
• Marshall F, Dolley J, Bisht R, Priya R, Waldman L, Amersinghe P, Randhawa P (2018) ‘Peri-urban Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation in Urbanising Contexts’, in K Schreckenberg, G Mace and M Poudyal (eds), Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation: Trade Offs and Governance, London: Earthscan from Routledge, 111-125. ISBN 978-1-138-58083-1

Research Papers

• Marshall F, Dolley J, Bisht R, Priya R, Waldman L, Randhawa P, Scharlemann J, Amerasinghe P, Saharia R, Kapoor A, Rizvi B, Hamid Y, Arora M, Chopra I, Teresa K S (2024) Recognising peri-urban ecosystem services in urban development policy and planning: A framework for assessing agri-ecosystem services, poverty and livelihood dynamics, Landscape and Urban Planning, 247: 1-12. ISSN 0169-2046
• Randhawa P, Mehra R (2023) Fragmented Planning and Splintered Urbanism: A Spatio-temporal Study of Ghaziabad, Nidan: International Journal for Indian Studies, 8 (2): 71-92. ISSN 1016-5320
• de Bruin S, Dengerink J, Randhawa P, Wadee I, Biemans H, & Siderius C (2022) Urbanising food systems: Exploring opportunities for rural transformation, IFAD Research Series 71, Rome: IFAD. ISBN 978-92-9266-216-5
• Randhawa P, Marshall F, Kushwaha P, Desai P (2020) Pathways for Sustainable Urban Waste Management and reduced Environmental Health Risks in India: Winners, Losers and Alternatives to Waste to Energy in Delhi, Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, Vol 2 (14), 1-15. ISSN 2624-9634
• Priya R, Bisht R, Randhawa P, Arora M, Dolly J, McGranahan, Marshall F (2017) Local Environmentalism in Peri-urban Spaces in India: Emergent Ecological Democracy, STEPS Working Paper 96, IDS, Brighton. ISBN 97-1-78118-374-8
• Marshall F and Randhawa P (2017) India’s Peri-urban Frontier: Rural-urban Transformations and Food Security, IIED Working Paper, London. ISBN 978-1-78431-381-4
• Randhawa P and Marshall F (2014) Policy Transformations and Translations in Water Management: Lessons for Sustainability in Peri-urban Delhi, India, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Vol 32, 93-107. ISSN 1472-3425
• Randhawa P (2012) Delhi Metro Rail: Beyond Mass Transit, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 47 (16), 25-29. ISSN 2349-8846
• Marshall M, Waldman L, Macgregor H, Mehta L, Randhawa P (2009) On the Edge of Sustainability: Peri-urban Interface in South Asian Cities, STEPS Working Paper 35, IDS, Brighton. ISBN 978 1 85864 794 0
• Randhawa P (2007) Delhi’s Killer Buses, Seminar, 579, November, 70-72.

Reports and Policy Briefs

• Randhawa R (2019) Urban Sanitation and Septage Management in Jharkhand: A, New Delhi: A City Level Sanitation Study (Adityapur, Hazaibagh, Mihijam), New Delhi: National Institute of Urban Affairs.
• Chachra S, Randhawa P, Chatterjee P (2018) (eds), New Urban Agenda: Prospects and Challenges, New Delhi: Action Aid India.
• Marshall F and Randhawa P (2017) Tackling Poverty and Food Security: Lessons from India’s Peri-urban Frontier, Briefing, London: IIED.
• Marshall F, Dolley J, Randhawa P (2017) Why Peri-urban Ecosystem Services Matter for Urban Policy’, Brief, Brighton: STEPS Centre.
• Agarwal R, Marshall F, Pandey P and Randhawa P (2015) Rethinking Urban Waste Management in India, Policy Brief, STEPS Centre and Toxics Link.
• Randhawa P, Mehta L, Marshall F (2011) Contesting Sustainability in Peri-urban Interface, STEPS Research Report, Brighton: STEPS Centre.
• Randhawa P, Goswami M, Barua B, (2006) Delhi Metro Rail: A New Mode of “Public” Transport?, New Delhi: Hazards Centre.
• Randhawa P (2003), ‘Parivahan’, in D Roy (eds), Ye Dilli Kiski hai, New Delhi: Hazards Centre.

• Co-presented with Rachna Mehra, “Understanding Urban Growth of a Satellite Town: A Case Study of Ghaziabad”, National Conference: Knowledge Exchange in a Globalised World, Shodhotsav, 31 August 2023 at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi. 
• “Sixty Years of Urban Planning in Delhi: A Critical Appraisal”, International Conference: Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Development in Global South: International Experiences and Future Strategies, 10-12 August 2023 at IIC, New Delhi.
• Co-presented with Rachna Mehra, “Insurgent Cities: Urban Social Movement and Mobilisation in India”, International Conference: XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, 25 June to 1 July 2023, Melbourne, Australia.  
• Lecture on “Envisioning Urban Space through the Lens of Caste”, Workshop: Reimagining Inclusive India, 23 June 2023, Sambhaavanaa Institute of Public Policy and Politics, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh.  
• Co-presented with Rachna Mehra, “(Re) Searching interdisciplinary and methodological frameworks to bridge the gap in planning, industrialization and urbanization”, 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS Conference) & 3rd RC33 Regional Conference Asia: India, 23  to 26 February 2023, by IIT Roorkee, India.
• “Techno-politics of Urban Waste Management in India”, International Conference: Annual Meeting of Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) with ESOCITE, 7-11 December 2022, Cholula, Mexico (attended online)
• Panelist on “Transformative Space Making for Urban Sustainability”, International Conference: Pathways to Sustainability: Knowledge, Power and Politics, STEPS Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, 8 December 2021 (attended online).
• “Policy Process and Participatory Research”, presented in Centre for Research Methods (CRM) Lecture on Researching the ‘Urban Turn’: Interdisciplinary Methods and Collaborative Methodology, 23 August 2021, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi.
• “Food System Transformation in National Capital Region (NCR) of India: Opportunities for Inclusive Rural Transformation in Haryana State”, Pre-conference Mini Symposium of 4th International Conference on Global Food Security,  Montepellier University of Excellence, Wageningen University & Research, 4 December 2020 (attended online). 
• “Analysing Urban Waste Water related Initiatives in Jharkhand”, National Consultation on Sustainable Water and Waste Management Systems: Planning for Healthy Cities, Trans-Disciplinary Research Cluster on Sustainability Studies (TRCSS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, 25-17 November 2019, New Delhi.  
• “Environment, Agriculture, Livelihoods and Health in Ghaziabad: Peri-Urban Issues and Citizen’s Environmentalism”, Symposium on Sustainability Studies, Trans-Disciplinary Research Cluster on Sustainability Studies (TRCSS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, 26 September 2017, New Delhi. 
• “Managing Urban Waste from Nexus Perspective for Resilient and Sustainable Cities”, International Workshop on Nexus of the Urban: Interactions between Water, Energy and Food Provisions for Sustainable Cities, Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex, 12 & 13 May 2016, Brighton, United Kingdom.
• “Understanding Environment and Poverty Linkages for Sustainable Urbanisation”, International Conference: Pathways to Sustainable Urbanisation, jointly organised by Jawaharlal Nehru University and STEPS Centre, 29 & 30 January 2016, New Delhi.
• “Pathways to Sustainable Urbanisation: Waste and Circular Economy in South Asia”, International Conference: Resource Politics: Transforming Pathways to Sustainability, STEPS Centre, University of Sussex 7-9 September 2015, Brighton, United Kingdom.
• Co-presented with F Marshall, P Desai, R Agarwal and P Kushwaha, “Pathways for Environmental Health in Transitional Spaces/Sustainable Urbanisation”, International Symposium: Exploring Pathways to Sustainability, jointly organised by Jawaharlal Nehru University and STEPS Centre, 10-11 February 2014, New Delhi.  
• “Challenges of Environmental Health in Urban India”, International Conference: South Asia 2020 organized by New America Foundation, 18 – 20 January 2013, Dubai, UAE.
• “Contesting Sustainability in the Peri-urban Interface”, Workshop: Cities, Environment and Social Justice jointly organized by SARAI and STEPS Centre, 2 – 4 February 2011, IIC, New Delhi.
• “Water Provisions and Health Concerns in Peri-urban Areas”, Sino-India Workshop on Environment and Health, National Institute of Geographic Sciences, 7-9 September 2010, Beijing, China. 
• “Challenges of Sustainability in South Asian Cities”, presented in International Conference on Human Ecology, University of Manchester, 29 June – 3 July 2009, Manchester, United Kingdom.
• “Connecting the City and Disconnecting People: A Critique Towards Delhi Metro Rail”,  5th International Conference on Critical Geography, 3-7 December 2006, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.

• 2021-24    Past, Present and Future: Understanding Temporal and Spatial Linkages of Ghaziabad, Name of the Grant: MRPG Scheme, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi, Budget: Rs. 5,01,600. 
• 2018 A Study of Urban Sanitation and Septage Management in Jharkhand, funded by National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), Budget: Rs. 12,00,000
• Worked as a Researcher on the following projects:
• 2016 -17 The Politics of Urban Sustainability Transformations: Mobilising Environmental Knowledge Exchange Partnerships Between Social Movements, Researchers and Communities of the poor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, funded by STEPS Centre, University of Sussex, UK.
• 2014-16 Risk and Responses to Urban Future: Integrating Peri-urban/Urban Synergies into Urban Development Planning for enhanced Ecosystem Service Benefits. Jawaharlal Nehru University, funded by Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA), UK.
• 2011-14    Pathways for Environmental Health in Transitional Spaces: Moving Between Formality and Informality, Jawaharlal Nehru University, funded by STEPS Centre, University of Sussex, UK.
• 2011 Cities and Climate Change in India, SARAI, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), funded by STEPS Centre, University of Sussex, UK.
• 2008-11 Peri-urban Interface and Sustainability of South Asian Cities, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, funded by Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK.