Workshops Conducted
• Exhibition on ‘Accessible Aesthetics: Art for All – An inclusive Art Exhibition’ co-organized with the Maqaam Foundation, Delhi in the State Gallery of Art, Hyderabad on 28th February to 2nd March, 2025.
• Workshop on ‘Lifestyles in Conflict: Chronicity and Healing in Contemporary India’ organized with Dr. Anindita Majumdar in IIT Hyderabad on 10-11 December 2024 as part of a project funded by the Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC), Government of India.
• Workshop on “Rethinking Questions Around Neurodiversity, Intellectual Disability, and Care”, January 12-13, 2024 in IIT Hyderabad as part of a 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.
• Workshop on 'Rethinking Autism: Multiple Perspectives' organized for World Autism Awareness/Acceptance Day, April 2-3, 2023 in TISS Mumbai as part of a project ‘A qualitative exploration of families’ lived experiences of using various therapies for intellectual and developmental disabilities’ funded by Yash Charitable Trust.
• Panel discussion ‘I think about their future all the time’: Disability, Care and Kinship in COVID-19 organized on December 10, 2021 (online) as part of a project on ‘Disability, family and care in the time of COVID-19’ funded by the Indian Council for Social Science Research.
• Coordinator of GIAN course on Clinically applied anthropology II: Ethnographic methods for mental health research and practice in India, IIT Hyderabad, December 2019 (Foreign faculty-Dr. Sumeet Jain, University of Edinburgh).
• Seminar on The performing body: Conversations on healing with medical humanities, IIT Hyderabad, February 1-2, 2019.
• Coordinator of GIAN course on Clinically applied anthropology I: Critical perspectives on mental health theory and practice in India, IIT Hyderabad, November 1-9, 2018 (Foreign faculty-Dr. Sushrut Jadhav, University College London).
Workshop 'Educators for 21st Century Engineers' co-organized with Dr. Mudrika Khandelwal for engineering college faculty under TEQIP-Sponsored Faculty Development Programme (February 27-28, 2015)
Seminar on 'Health Practices and Engagements in India: Multidisciplinary Perspectives' organized in IIT Hyderabad (April 2014)
Visiting Fellowships
Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) of the Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS), School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi from March 3 to March 7, 2014
Visiting scholar in the Department of Anthropology at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, New York City, from May to July 2013
Editorship
Editorial board: Associate editor of the journal South Asia Research (2023-)
https://journals.sagepub.com/home/SAR
Editorial board: Associate editor of the journal Psychological Studies (2020-2022)
https://www.springer.com/journal/12646/editors
Professional membership
Core Member of Qualitative Psychology and Critical Studies Forum (QPCSF)
Life member, Indian Association for Women’s Studies
Member, British Association for South Asian Studies (2019-)
Executive Committee Member, National Academy of Psychology (2013 onwards)
Life member, Indian Sociological Society
Life member, Indian Anthropological Association
Member, Medico-friends circle
Member, International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (2008-2010)