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

• 2013 PhD in Sociology (integrated MPhil leading to PhD), School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, UK.
• Awarded the ‘Overseas Research Scholarship’ (ORS) and ‘University of Bristol Postgraduate Research Scholarship’ (full overseas tuition fees and living expenses) by the University of Bristol for pursuing a doctorate in sociology at the University of Bristol.
• 2007 MSc in Management, University of Bristol, UK
• First Division with Distinction and Highest Rank in the university.
• Awarded ‘Bryman and Bell Research Prize’ by the Oxford University Press (UK) for Best Research Dissertation.
• Awarded ‘Certificate of Achievement’ for the highest score in MSc Management by the University of Bristol.
• 2005 MA in Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
• First Division and ranked first in MA Sociology.
• Awarded merit based National Scholarship for outstanding students under Centre of Advance Study Scheme, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.
• 2002  BA (Honours) Sociology, Hindu College, University of Delhi

2016- ongoing: Assistant Professor of Sociology, School of Liberal Studies, Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi

Administrative responsibilities held:

• Deputy Dean, School of Liberal Studies (2023- ongoing).
• Nodal Officer- MOU partnership between Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi (DrBRAUD) and the National Minorities Development and Finance Division (NMDFC), Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India (2023- ongoing).
• Deputy Dean, International Affairs Division (2019-2021)
• Member- Board of Studies (BOS), School of Liberal Studies (2017-2019)
• Programme Co-ordinator, BA Sociology Programme- School of Undergraduate Studies (2024-ongoing)
• Programme Co-ordinator, MA Sociology Programme- School of Liberal Studies (2019-2023)
• Committee Member, Foreign Students Admission Advisory Committee, (2019-21) 
• Committee member, Evaluation and Attendance Committee (EAC)- School of Undergraduate Studies (2018-2020)
• Placement Coordinator, BA Sociology Programme- School of Undergraduate Studies (2024-ongoing)
• Internship Coordinator, BA Sociology Programme- School of Undergraduate Studies (2024-25 onwards)
• Convenor and  Committee Member, BA sociology Student Faculty Committee, School of Undergraduate Studies (2024- ongoing)
• Committee Member, School-level Scholarship Committee, School of Liberal Studies (2019- ongoing)
• Faculty Representative, programme-level MA Sociology Scholarship Committee (2023-onwards)
• Faculty Convenor, Inara: Fashion Society, Co-Curricular Activities (CCA) Committee, Student Services Division (2024-onwards)
• Committee Member, MA sociology Student Welfare Committee, School of Liberal Studies (2019-2023)
• Faculty Convenor, Alankar: Music Society, Co-Curricular Activities (CCA) Committee, Student Services Division (2020-2022)
• Joint Programme Co-ordinator, Sociology undergraduate programme, School of Undergraduate Studies (SUS) (2017-2019)
• Committee Member, Scholarship Committee, School of Liberal Studies (2016-18)
• Committee Member- External faculty representative member Scholarship Committee at the School of Business Studies postgraduate scholarship award committee (2016-18)
• Sociology Faculty representative, Student Welfare Fund Committee (2016-18)

2015- 2016: Assistant Professor of Sociology at FLAME University, School of Liberal Education, Pune.

• Committee Member- FLAME International Relations Committee (2015-16)

2013- 2015: Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Miranda House, University of Delhi.

• Invited by the University of Delhi on the Board of Examiners for both three-year and four year BA sociology undergraduate degree program (2014-15 and 2013-14)
• Convenor – Sociology Society and Library Representative of the Department of Sociology at Miranda House
• 2013: Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Hindu College, University of Delhi.
• 2013: Postgraduate Academic Counsellor for MA Sociology for the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).
• 2011- 2012: Undergraduate Teaching in sociology at the School of Sociology, Politics, and International Studies (SPAIS), University of Bristol, UK.
• 2007- 2011: Researcher (permanent post), Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, Bristol Institute of Public Affairs (BIPA), University of Bristol, UK. Working with Professor Paul Statham on the ‘European Social Survey (ESSi: NA4): Developing Event Reporting’ project aimed at developing a news media analysis tool in association with the Descartes Award winning European Social Survey. The project was conducted in partnership with City University, London
• 2008: Adjunct Teaching- undergraduate teaching at the Sociology Department, Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences, London South Bank University, UK.
• 2007-2008: Postgraduate Teaching for MSc in Management at the School of Economics, Finance and Management (EFM), University of Bristol, UK.
• 2007- 2006: Independent management consultant, University of Bristol, UK- Conducted an independent faculty-wide research study across six schools for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, University of Bristol commissioned by the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law (Professor Rosemary Deem) on improving the efficacy of the Bristol Institute of Public Affairs and future policy recommendations
• 2006: Researcher, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol working with Professor Harriet Bradley on an Equal Opportunities Commission (European Social Fund funded) project investigating ‘Ethnic minority women and workplace cultures in the UK’ in partnership with Queen Mary University of London
• 2005: Internship with the Human Resources Division at the Lloyds TSB Bank, UK
• 2004-2005: Independent Researcher, Sarai- Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. Conducted an independent research project funded by CSDS stipendship competition for emerging researchers.
• 2002-2003: Independent Researcher, Developing Countries Research Centre (DCRC), University of Delhi.
• 2001: Research Assistant (short-term contract) on a project conducted by the University of Bath (UK) in India.
• 2000: Voluntary Research Officer on a project on gender and reproductive health, Deepalaya (prominent Non-Governmental Organisation working with street-children and women).

• Media and Popular Culture
• Migration and Diaspora
• Gender
• Religion & Religiosities
• Work and Organisations
• Urban Sociology

Memberships

Member: International Sociological Association (ISA)

• Member ISA research committee RC57 Visual Sociology
• Lifetime member: Indian Sociological Society (ISS)
• Member ISS research committee RC04 Migration and Diaspora Studies
• Member ISS research committee RC16 Work, Labour and Organization
• Member ISS research committee RC20 Media Studies
• Lifetime member: Indian Association for Women’s Studies (IAWS)

Professional Training and Development

• Completed a two-week Refresher Course in ‘Teacher Education (Interdisciplinary)’ conducted by the GOI Ministry of Education's Malaviya Mission Teachers Training Centre (MMTTC) at the University of Kashmir, 12^th December – 27^th December 2024.
• Completed a workshop on ‘Capacity Building in Grant Writing’ at the Shodhotsav 2024: Annual Research Festival, Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi, 9th October 2024
• Completed a certificate course in ‘Demystifying Environmental and Sustainability Data for Effective Communication in the 21st Century’ organised by the School of Environmental Communications, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi, 31^st Jan- 14^th Feb 2024.
• Completed a two-week Refresher Course in ‘Managing Online Classes and Co-creating MOOCS’, conducted by the Teaching and Learning College, Ramanujan College (University of Delhi) in association with the GOI Ministry of Education Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching, 11^th November – 25^th November 2023.
• Completed a workshop on ‘The Art of Research Communication: Maximising Research Visibility’ organized by the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) and the Library at Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD), 31^st May 2023.
• Completed a Faculty Development Programme in ‘Qualitative Data Analysis’ conducted by the Teaching and Learning College, Ramanujan College (University of Delhi) in association with the GOI Ministry of Education Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching, 11^th-17^th April 2022.
• Completed an Interdisciplinary Refresher Course on ‘Research Methodology’ conducted by the Teaching and Learning College, Ramanujan College (University of Delhi) in association with IQAC, Sameer Gandhi Kala Mahavidyalaya & Commerce & Science College, Malshiras Solapur, Maharashtra in association with the GOI Ministry of Education Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching, 20^th Feb- 6^th March 2022.
• Completed the 124^th 4-week Orientation Programme organised by the University Grants Commission- Human Resource Development Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia University (New Delhi), 12^th February – 12^th March 2019.
• Course in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education from the Education Support Unit, University of Bristol, 2011.
• Interviewed live about my research on Indian cinema on ‘The Culture Show’ on Bristol Community Radio (BCfm) - August 2010.
• Completed ‘Theory for a Global Age: Postcolonial and Cosmopolitan Perspectives’, early career summer school in social and political thought organized by the Institute of Advanced Study and the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, July 2009.

2008

• Participated in the Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC, UK) training workshop 'Using new technologies in qualitative research' organised at the University of Cardiff by the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods, April 2008.
• Participated in the Economic and Social Research Council’s  (ESRC, UK) training workshop 'Multi-modal qualitative research' organised at the University of Cardiff by the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods, May 2008.

2007

• Participant at the ‘RECON Summer School on Advanced Methods and Techniques in Media Analysis’ at the Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies (CEuS), University of Bremen, organised jointly by ARENA, University of Oslo, Norway, and University of Bremen, Germany, 22 July- 17 August 2007.      

2005-2006

• Departmental Student Representative on the Executive Management committee of the School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol.

2005-2004

• Elected Representative Member, Delhi School of Economics’ ‘Anti-sexual Harassment Committee’ at the University of Delhi.

2003

• Art Appreciation course from the National Museum Institute of history of art, conservation and museology, Government of India.

2001

• Certificate course in Film Appreciation organised by the Embassy of France in association with the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Cinemaya (leading Asian film journal) and the National Film Archive of India.

Grants and Awards

• Full conference grant by the Technical University Berlin to participate at the “Varieties of Refiguration? On Multiple Spatialities, Spatial Arrangements & the Economy” International conference by the Collaborative Research Centre “Re-Figuration of Spaces” (CRC 1265)  German Research Foundation (DFG) at the Technical University Berlin, Germany, November 2024.
• Awarded the Seed Money Grant for Faculty Research (SMGFR-IV) by the Research &  Consultancy Division, Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi for an independent research project February 2024.
• Full conference grant by Chulalongkorn University to participate at the 4th International and  Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability at Chulalongkorn  University in Bangkok, Thailand, 2024.
• Full conference grant by the University of Botswana to participate at the ‘Research  Collaboration and Research Methods Workshop’ at the Global Centre for Spatial Methods for  Urban Sustainability (SMUS), University of Botswana jointly organized by the University of  Botswana, Technical University Berlin, and the German Federal Ministry for Economic  Cooperation and Development via the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), August-September 2023.
• Awarded full Conference Grant by the University of Northumbria for participating in the  Sojourners, Economic Migrants, Expats International Conference at the Northumbria  University in association with the Economic and Social Research Council, (ESRC) UK, June 2016.
• Awarded the ‘Overseas Research Scholarship’ and ‘University of Bristol Postgraduate Research Scholarship’ (full overseas tuition fees and living expenses) by the University of Bristol for pursuing a doctorate in sociology at the University of Bristol, 2007- 2011.
• Awarded fully funded ‘Research Fellowship’ (full overseas tuition fees and living expenses) by the University of Exeter for doctoral research in sociology 2007- 2011
• Awarded the Roberts Skills Travel Grant by the Department of Sociology, University of Bristol  for participating in ‘Theory for a Global Age: Postcolonial and Cosmopolitan Perspectives’, early career summer school organized by the Institute of Advance Study and the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, July 2009.
• Awarded Roberts Skills Travel Grant by the Department of Sociology, University of Bristol for research dissemination at the Representing Islam: Comparative Perspectives Conference, University of Manchester, September 2008.
• Awarded Special Faculty Skills Training Grant by the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law for outstanding progress in the PhD research, 2008.
• Commissioned for an independent faculty-wide research review for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, University of Bristol on the efficacy of the Bristol Institute of Public Affairs and future policy recommendations, 2008.
• Awarded ‘Bryman and Bell Research Prize’ by the Oxford University Press (UK) for Best Research Dissertation, 2007. 
• Awarded ‘Certificate of Achievement’ for the highest score in MSc Management by the University of Bristol, 2007.
• Awarded the highly competitive Alumni Foundation Travel Grant by the University of Bristol, 2007.
• Awarded Faculty Academic Staff Research Support Grant by the University of Bristol, 2007.
• Awarded a highly competitive Conference Grant by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (CIGS) at the University of Leeds, 2006
• Awarded ‘Sizarship’ (merit based university scholarship) by the Centre for Advanced Study, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, 2004.
• Awarded Research Stipendship for independent research study by Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS)- Sarai, Delhi, 2004-2005. Only nineteen research proposals selected from throughout India Recommended by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India for the International Commonwealth Scholarship/Fellowship Plan (only ten chosen from throughout India on the basis of a formal written statement and interviews).
• Awarded ‘Merit Award South Asia 2003/04’ by the University of Hull for a masters in gender studies at the University of Hull, UK.Winner of merit based National Scholarship for outstanding students awarded under Centre of Advance Study Scheme, Delhi School of Economics, 2003.

• Kaul, P. (2024). Re-examining the relevance of Michael Porter’s ‘Five Forces Framework’: Business strategy and competitiveness in the contemporary globalised world, International Journal for Multidisciplinary Research, Vol. 6 (4), pp 1-8. ISSN 2582-2160
• Kaul P. (2023). Silence and Marginalisation: Exploring identity and ecology in Girish Karnad’s ‘Cheluvi’, Antrocom Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 19 (1), pp. 485-490. ISSN 1973-2880 (UGC Care listed)
• Kaul, P. (2023). ‘Rural frames: Bollywood imagination of village India’ in Santosh K. Singh (ed.) Remembering India's Villages, New Delhi: Routledge. ISBN: 9781032524627.
• Kaul, P. (2021) 'Kashmir is not a metaphor' in Vijaylakshmi Harish et al. (eds.) Write in Power: An Anthology of the Personal and the Political, Bangalore: Haadibadi Trust (for the Hidden Pen Collective). ISBN: 9788195431854
• Kaul, P. (2020). 'India's stark inequalities make social distancing much easier for some than others', The Conversation UK, April (https://theconversation.com/indias-stark-inequalities-make-social-distancing-much-easier-for-some-than-others-134864)
• Kaul, P. (2018). Review of Hawley, J.S. and Narayanan, V. (eds.) (2017). ‘Life of Hinduism’, Aleph for the journal International Journal of Humanistic Ideology Special Issue on Fluid Faith, Rigid Religion: In the framework of South Asia (Cluj University Press, Romania), Vol. VIII (1), pp. 147-150, ISSN 1844-458X (print); 2285-4517 (web).
• Kaul, P. (2016). ‘Gender in post-liberalisation India: The complex trajectories of gender and (postcolonial) nationalism in Hindi cinema’ in Shaminder Takhar (ed.) Gender and Race Matter: Global Perspectives on Being a Woman (Advances in Gender Research Series), London: Emerald Publishers (UK) ISBN 9781786350381.
• Kaul, P (2016). ‘Draupadi – Through the Ages?’, Gender Matters: Centre for Social Research, February. (http://gendermatters.in/2016/02/draupadi-through-the-ages/)  
• Kaul, P. (2012). ‘Exploring ‘Anwar’: Religion, Identity and Nationalism’ in Christopher Flood, Stephen Hutchings, Galina Miazhevich and Henri Nickels (eds.) Political and Cultural Representations of Muslims: Islam in the Plural, Leiden/Boston: Brill Publishers - http://www.brill.nl/political-and-cultural-representations-muslims) ISBN 9789004231023.
• Kaul, P. (2011). Review of Bhaskar Sarkar (2009) ‘Mourning the Nation: Indian cinema in the wake of partition’, Duke University Press, for the journal Contemporary South Asia, Vol. 19 (2).
• Kaul, P. with Harriet Bradley, Geraldine Healy and Cynthia Forson (2007). Ethnic Minority Women and Workplace Cultures: What does and what does not work, Manchester: Equal Opportunities Commission ISBN 9781842060346.
• Kaul, P. (2007). Review of Pramod K. Nayar (2006) ‘Reading Culture: Theory, Praxis and Politics’, Sage Publication, for the journal Sociology, Aug 2007, Vol. 41 (4) (with Sophia Acord, University of Exeter).

Invited lectures/Talks (select)

• Invited as a Resource person at the ‘Research Collaboration and Research Methods Workshop’ at the Global Centre for Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS), University of Botswana jointly organized by the University of Botswana, Technical University Berlin, and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development via the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 31^st August- 8^th September 2023.
• Delivered two lectures on ‘Research Design’ as a resource person in the ‘Research Methodology Course in Social Science’ organised by the Council for Social Development (CSD) in association with the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR), 28^th Feb- 9^th March 2024.
• Delivered a lecture on ‘Methodological Innovations in Media Research’ as a resource person in the ‘Research Methodology Course of Sociology’ organised by the UGC- Malviya Teacher Training Centre (MMTTC), Punjabi University, Patiala, 04th - 16th December 2023.
• Delivered a lecture on ‘Researching society through cinema: A mixed-methods approach’’ as a  resource person in the Faculty Development Programme on ‘Developing a Theoretical Framework of Social Science Research Methodology – Applications and Implications on Scientific Report Writing and Area Studies Programs’ supported by Jean Monnet Project, Centre for European Studies, SIS, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and organized by Amity Academic Staff College and Amity Institute of Social Sciences, 20-27^th June 2023
• Delivered a lecture on ‘Reflexivity and Ethics in Research’ as a resource person at the Research Methodology Workshop on Labour Studies organised by Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) in association with the V. V. Giri National Labour Institute, 10^th- 12^th May 2023.
• Delivered a session on ‘Qualitative Research’ as a resource person at the 10 day Ethnography Workshop organised by Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi in association with the Anthropological Survey of India, 11^th- 22^nd March 2019.
• Delivered a lecture on 'Cinematic return of the 'imagined diaspora': Nationalism and politics in post-liberalisaton India' at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), November 2018.
• Delivered a lecture on 'Becoming a Woman: Simone de Beauvior and Feminism in the contemporary ontext' at the conference on 'Simone de Beauvoir: From Existentialism to Feminism' organised jointly by Alliance Francaise de Delhi and Jindal Global University, October 2018.
• Delivered a lecture on 'From Purab to Paschim: Indianness in post-liberalisation Hindi cinema' organised by the Department of Sociology, South Asian University, August 2018.
• Report launch and panel presentation of research findings for the Equal Opportunities Commission at the Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity (CRED), Queen Mary University, London. (http://hosted.busman.qmul.ac.uk/cred/Events/index.html), July 2007
• Delivered a lecture on ‘Muslim Women's Labour Market Participation Rates: economic, familial and cultural impacts’ with Professor Harriet Bradley at the Bristol Institute of Public Affairs (BIPA), University of Bristol, February 2007.
• Delivered a lecture on ‘Managing Equalities’ with Professor Harriet Bradley at the Department of Management, University of Bristol, January 2007.

Paper presented

2025

• Participant and paper presenter ‘Identity and Suburbia: Diversity, Exclusion and Everyday Meaning-Making’ at the National Conference on Social Sciences in the 21st Century: A Dialogical Mode of Understanding organised by IMS Unison University Dehradun, March 2025.

2024

• Participant and paper presenter ‘Hindi Cinema and OTT: Changing patterns of entertainment in India post-pandemic’ at Indian Sociological Society’s 49th All India Sociological Conference on Sociology, Development and Democracy (RC20 Media Studies) held at BML Munjal University, December 2024.
• Participant and paper presenter ‘Decolonising the Impact of the Global Supply Chains on the Global South: Delivery workers and the post-pandemic everyday’ at the  “Varieties of Refiguration? On Multiple Spatialities, Spatial Arrangements & the Economy” International conference by the Collaborative Research Centre “Re-Figuration of Spaces” (CRC 1265), German Research Foundation (DFG) at the Technical University Berlin, Germany, November 2024.
• Participant and paper presenter ‘The wellbeing of delivery workers as part of the post-covid gig economy in India’ at the National Conference on Wellbeing in a Transforming World: Towards Inclusive Development, Shodhotsav 2024, Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi, October 2024.
• Participant and paper presenter ‘Community based urban residential segregation: case study of a middle-class Delhi suburb’ at the 4th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, jointly organized by the "Global Centre of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability" together with the Research Committee on "Logic and Methodology in Sociology" (RC33) of the "International Sociology Association" (ISA) and the Research Network "Quantitative Methods" (RN21) of the European Sociological Association (ESA), July-August 2024..

2023

• Participant and paper presenter ‘Covid-19 and the informal economy: A longitudinal study of the street vendors in Delhi’ at the 51st Annual Conference on South Asia, organised by the Centre for South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), October 2023
• Participant and paper presenter ‘Interrogating the intersectional dynamics of a gendered workplace: A case study’ at the XXIIst National North West Indian Sociological Association Conference (NWISA) – Hundred Years of Sociology in India: Perspectives from North-West Region, GGDSD College, Chandigarh, April 2023.
• Participant and paper presenter ‘Negotiating precarity and resilience through the pandemic:The case of street food vendors in Delhi’ at the International Conference and Pre-congress of United India Anthropology Forum (UIAF) World Anthropology Congress - Rescripting the Anthropocene: Health, Happiness and Hope, Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi, January 2023.

2021

• Participant and paper presenter ‘Covid-19 & social and economic precarity of the street food vendors in Delhi’ at the BSA Annual 2021 International Conference: Remaking the Future organized by the British Sociological Association (BSA UK), virtual conference, April 2021.

2018

• Participant and paper presenter ‘Coming Home: Diaspora and politics in contemporary India’ at the International conference on ‘Indian diaspora and transnationalism: global perspective’ organized by the UGC Centre for study of Indian diaspora, University of Hyderabad, October 2018.

2017

• Participant and paper presenter ‘The Ideal Diaspora: Strategic constructions and nationalist ambitions in post-liberalisation India’ at the International Conference on Migration and Diasporas: Emerging Diversities and Development Challenges at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, March 2017.
• Participant and paper presenter ‘The Imagined Diaspora: Diaspora and Nationalism in Post-liberalisation India’ at the international conference on Globalisation, Culture and Identity: Challenges and Prospects at FLAME University, Pune, February 2017.

2016

• Participant and paper presenter ‘The softpower in India’s superpower dream? Diaspora and homeland nationalism in post-liberalisation India’ at the International Conference on Global Migration: Rethinking Skills, Knowledge and Culture, India International Centre, New Delhi, November 2016.
• Participant and paper presenter ‘Forever Migrants? A sociological study of Kashmiri Pandits and forced migration within the same nation-state’ at the Sojourners, Economic Migrants, Expats International Conference at the Northumbria University in association with the Economic and Social Research Council, (ESRC) UK, June 2016.
• Participant and paper presenter ‘Gender and Ethnicity: the case of the Kashmiri Pandit migrant community in Delhi’ at the Ethnicity and Development in South Asia: Issues and Challenges- International Conference at the Indira Gandhi National Open University, January 2016.

2014

• Participant and paper presenter ‘Popular culture and nation-building in contemporary India’ at the symposium Exploring the Dimensions of Popular Culture organised by the Department of Sociology, Miranda House, University of Delhi, August 2014

2011

• Participant and paper presenter ‘The new Indian modernity post-liberalisation: Reconfiguring Indianness in bollywood cinema’ at What’s new? The changing face of Indian Cinema: contemporary and historical contexts- international conference at the India Media Centre, University of Westminster (UK), July 2011.

2010

• Participant and paper presenter ‘Exploring Indianness in bollywood cinema: diaspora and the new Indian modernity’ at the Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association’s (MECCSA) annual interdisciplinary international conference at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), January 2010.

2009

• Participant and Paper presenter 'Indianness' in Bollywood cinema: diaspora and the new Indian modernity’ at the Fifth Annual European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) at the University of Potsdam, Germany, September 2009.
• Participant at the ‘Theory for a Global Age: Postcolonial and Cosmopolitan Perspectives’, early career summer school in social and political thought organized by the Institute of Advance Study and the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, July 2009.
• Paper presenter at ‘Angles: An interdisciplinary conference on cultural history’ at Birkbeck, University of London, June 2009.
• Participant and Paper presenter ‘Exploring 'Indianness' in Bollywood cinema: diaspora and the new Indian modernity’ at the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC UK) Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme and CRONEM annual conference 'Diasporas, Migration and Identities: Crossing Boundaries, New Directions' at the University of Surrey, June 2009.
• Research presentation at the postgraduate work-in-progress series at the Department of Sociology, University of Bristol.

2008

• Participant and Paper presenter ‘Exploring ‘Anwar’: religion, identity and nationalism’ at the Representing Islam: Comparative Perspectives Conference organised jointly by the University of Manchester and the Department of Politics, International and Policy Studies (PIPS), University of Surrey, and supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) of Britain, at the University of Manchester, September 2008.
• Participant and Paper presenter ‘Creating the ‘other’?: Representations of religion, identity and nationalism in India’ at the 20^th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies (ECMSAS), University of Manchester, July 2008

2007

• Participant and Paper Presenter ‘The Policy and Praxis of Diversity: Lived reality of the workplace’ at the British Sociological Association’s (BSA) Work, Employment and Society (WES) Conference 2007 ‘Beyond these Shores: Sinking or Swimming in the Globalised New Economy?’, King’s College, University of Aberdeen, September, 2007.    
• Presentation of findings of the ‘Media Debate on the EU constitution in the UK’ at the RECON research seminar, Humboldt University, Germany.
• Participant and Paper Presenter ‘Gender, Ethnicity and Power: Exploring everyday mediations’ at the East meets West - International Postgraduate and Academic Conference Gender 2007, Centre for Women’s Studies, University of York, July 2007.
• Participant and Paper Presenter at the Seventh International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, Amsterdam, July 2007.
• Participant and Paper Presenter at the Moving Forward, Annual College of Arts and Social Sciences Postgraduate Conference, University of Aberdeen, June 2007.

2006

• Participant and Paper Presenter 'Gender, Violence and Exclusionary Urbanism’ at the National Postgraduate Conference organised by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (CIGS) at the University of Leeds, June 2006.

2005

• Paper Presenter and discussant 'And the Earth Still Shakes: Communal violence and exclusionary urbanism' at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS- Sarai) annual research symposium, New Delhi, August 2005.

2003

• Participated as a rapporteur -International Conference on ‘Women and Migration in Asia’, Gender Perspectives on Asia, organized by the Developing Countries Research Centre, University of Delhi, on the panel  ‘Transnational Migration and the Politics of Identity’, at the India International Centre, New Delhi, December 2003. 
• Participated as a rapporteur -symposium on ‘Caste and Race: Questions of Identity and Exclusion’ at Delhi School of Economics, part of the Open Seminar Series on ‘Are Other Worlds Possible? The World Social Forum and Cultures of Politics’ at the University of Delhi.

Seminar/ Workshop organized

2023

Organizing Secretary: Organized a two-day ‘Training program on Capacity Building’ on the 13th -14th  December 2023 at DrBRAUD Kashmere Gate campus for officials from the National Minorities Development and Finance Corporation (NMDFC), Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India.

2018- 2020:

Coordinator, Sociology Seminar Series: Organised sociology research seminars at Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi.

2014-2015

Convenor: Sociology Society at Miranda House, University of Delhi.

Organised symposium entitled ‘Exploring the Dimensions of Popular Culture’ at the Department of Sociology, Miranda House, University of Delhi.

Organised student recruitment event for the Young India Fellowship in association with Ashoka University at Miranda House, University of Delhi.

Organised film screenings on behalf of the Sociology Department and Lakshita: the enabling society at Miranda House, University of Delhi.

2013-2014

Organiser, Departmental Seminar Series on the theme of ‘The construction of social identity’ at the Department of Sociology, Miranda House, University of Delhi.

2010-2011

Co-organiser, Work in-Progress (WIP) Research Forum, Department of Sociology University of Bristol. 

2009

Co-organiser of the National Conference ‘Connections’: the Eight Annual Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference’ at the Department of Sociology, University of Bristol.

2002

Co-organiser of workshops for ‘Parivartan’ (transformation), a gender sensitization forum at the University of Delhi.