Consultancy projects
Expert on ‘Rehabilitation and Resettlement' issues for a Third-Party Evaluation of the Polavaram Irrigation Project awarded to IIT Hyderabad by the Polavaram Project Authority, Government of India (06 August 2021 to 04 November 2021.
Current Projects
Grant obtained for a project ‘Inclusion and access in the context of disability art: A nexus between research, praxis and advocacy in India’ by The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI). (Project start date: December 24, 2024; Duration: 6 months. Award amount: $1800)
Grant obtained for a two-year project titled ‘Lifestyle, chronicity, and wellness in South Asia’ sanctioned under the Scheme for the Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) by the Ministry of Education (MoE). (Project start date: 28.07.2023; Duration: 2 years. Award amount: Rs. 30,97,793/-. Co-investigator: Dr. Anindita Majumdar)
Co-investigator (with PI Dr. Amrita Datta and co-PIs Prof. Irudaya Rajan, Dr. Gaurav Dhamija, Dr. Haripriya Narasimhan and Dr. M.P. Ganesh) in a one-year research, the Odisha Migration Study sponsored by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) (Project start date: 1st December 2022; project end date: 15th November 2023. Award amount: USD 196,000/-)
Grant obtained for a two-year ICSSR major research project on ‘Invisible disabilities and long-term care: A qualitative study of family and institutional care arrangements for persons with intellectual and cognitive disabilities in India’ funded by the Indian Council for Social Science Research (Project start date: 1st April 2021. Award amount: Rs. 8,00,000/-)
Grant obtained for a one-year study on A qualitative exploration of families’ lived experiences of using various therapies for intellectual and developmental disabilities funded by Yash Charitable Trust (Project start date: 1st January 2022 - 31st December 2022. Award amount: Rs. 5,60,672/-)
Grant obtained for a one-year study on Disability, family and care in the time of COVID-19 funded by the Indian Council for Social Science Research (1st March 2021 - 28th Feb 2022)
Healing practices in the Mira Data Dargah: Subaltern and State in Contemporary Gujarat - study in an interdisciplinary research programme ‘Health Practices, Resources, and Governance in the Margins of the State’ funded by the Wellcome trust (Medical History and Humanities programme), U.K.
Mental Illness and Psychiatric Practice in India: An Ethnographic Study of Two Public Hospitals in Hyderabad - Startup Grant Project, IITH (November 2012 onwards)