Areas of Research Interest

Science Technology and Society Studies

Social scientists’ engagement with science and technology is not just limited to understanding the impact of S&T on society. Rather, problematizing science and technology, scholarship in this field highlights the social embeddedness and cultural conditioning of science, and technological innovations. My research in this area focuses on the social shaping of technology and sociology of scientific knowledge. Within the broad domain of science, technology and society studies my specific areas of interest include climate change, biotechnology, agriculture, information and communication technologies, and organizations.

Sociology of disability

Disability as a social category draws of attention of sociologists to understand the social processes of exclusion, discrimination and oppression. Researching on disability for the past ten years I have been focusing on issues of identity, access, participation, assistive technologies and employment of persons with disabilities.

Teaching Engagements

• Research Methods-I : Survey Research and Basic Statistics;
• Science Technology and Society Studies

Research Guidance

Broad areas of research guidance (M. Phil, Ph.D. and PG level Project work) include Science Technology and Society Studies and Sociology of Disability

Publications

• 2019. 'Contesting crop sciences in the emerging agrarian social structure in India: A social constructivist understanding of knowledge production in agriculture' Research project report submitted to the University Grants Commission, New Delhi (project carried out during with grant from the UGC during 2015-18)
• 2018. 'Providing agro-advisories to poor and marginal farmers through village-level eSagu - An implementation experience in 25 villages', [with P. Krishna Reddy], Proceedings of the 12th INDIACom; IEEE Conference ID: 42835, 5th International Conference on “Computing for Sustainable Global Development”, 14-16 March, Bharati Vidyapeeth's Institute of Computer Applications and Management (BVICAM), New Delhi (INDIA)
• 2018. 'Benefits of the Kaleshwaram project', September 6, The Hindu Business Line https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/columns/benefits-of-the-kaleshwaram-project/article24884299.ece
• 2016. ‘Climate change and the emerging contexts of agriculture in India: implications for science research’, in the seminar proceedings of the International Conference on Climate Change and Food Security: Ethical Perspective, February, organized by Agri Biotech Foundation, Hyderabad
• 2015. 'Situating Census Data in Disability Discourse: An Analysis of Census 2011 and 2001', Indian Anthropologist, 45:2, pp. 59-74
• 2015. ePG Pathashala of UGC modules of Sociology in the paper (03) Methodology of Research in Sociology” (http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/) [13- Observation, 5 - Scaling and measurement, 16 - Issues of validity and reliability, 17 – Sampling]
• 2015. ‘Role of ICTs in Sustainable Agriculture: A Study of e-Sagu in Andhra Pradesh’, [with Naveen Kumar C] in Singh A. K. et. al. (eds.) Climate Change Modelling, Planning and Policy for Agriculture, pp. 109-118. ISBN 978-81-322-2156-2
• 2014. ‘Data In the Service of the Poor’, in The Hindu, September 23 (with Ghanta Chakrapani) https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/telanganas-household-survey-data-in-the-service-of-the-poor/article6435946.ece
• 2012. 'Technological Innovations and social change: an overview' and 'Institutional innovations in India' in the University of Hyderabad and NAARM jointly offered “PG Diploma in Technology Management in Agriculture” course material ISBN No 2226, pp 22-41
• 2012. ‘Disability and social Exclusion: A Study on state initiatives towards people with impairments’, [with Debasmita Chand] IASSI Quarterly- Contributions to Indian Social Science, Vol. 31., No 3&$, July-December 2012, pp. 123-139
• 2011. 'From Impairment to Disability and Beyond: Critical Explorations in Disability Studies', Sociological Bulletin, 60 (2), May – August, pp. 287–306
• 2010. ‘Plant Tissue Culture in Horticulture: From Community Knowledge to Proprietary Knowledge’ in the edited book by Nadia Asheulova, Binay Kumar Pattnaik, Eduard Kolchinsky, Gregory Sandstrom Liberalizing Research in Science and Technology: Studies in Science Policy, Saint-Petersburg: Politechnika, PP 507-526. (ISBN No. 978-5-904031-76-3)
• 2010. 'Sampling' in the course titled “Development: Methods and Techniques” in the Post Graduate Diploma Programme in Sustainable Rural Development offered by University of Hyderabad and NIRD, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, pp. 79-99.
• 2007. 'Plant Tissue Culture Industry and Women’s Participation: ‘Nimble Fingers’ or Docile Labor?', Gender, Technology and Development, 11 (2), pp 179–198 (Sage Publications)
• 2007. 'Ethnographic Account of Cultivation Practices among Gonds of Andhra Pradesh' (Forestry case study report), Winrock International India, New Delhi. http://www.rupfor.org/downloadq/casestudy_Raghav_reddy.pdf
• 2004. 'Technology and Organization Control: A Study of Plant Tissue Culture Industry', [with E. Haribabu] Management and Labour Studies, May Vol. 29, No.2, pp 99-108.
• 2002. 'Biotechnology and the Industrialization of Horticulture in India', [with E. Haribabu] Outlook on Agriculture, September, Vol. 31, No 3, pp 187-192.

Research/Consultancy Projects

• 2015-18. ‘Contesting crop sciences in the emerging agrarian social structure in India: A social constructivist understanding of knowledge production in agriculture’, UGC-Major Research Project
• 2015-17. 'eSagu -An IT Driven Personalized Agri-facilitator for Better Farming', International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH) (BDL project & BEL project)
• 2015. Enrolment and retention of marginalized (migrant, urban, deprived, child abuse) children in elementary schools – A study of elementary schools in Telangana,Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan - Telangana State
• 2015. A study on Enrolment and retention of marginalised (migrant, urban deprived, child abuse) children in elementary schools- A study of elementary schools in Telangana, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan - Telangana State
• 2012-13. Contesting crop sciences: A study on understanding the contexts of alternative knowledge claims and institutional responses, UPE-II, University of Hyderabad
• 2008-11. Enabling the Differently Abled: A Sociological Understanding of the Development Initiatives by the State and the Community toward the Disabled in Rural Andhra Pradesh, UGC – Major Research Project
• 2005-06. Ethnographic Account of Cultivation Practices Among GONDS of Andhra Pradesh – Forestry Case Studies Project, Winrock International India, New Delhi