Award/Grant/Fellowship

2025

• Full travel and accommodation support from AAS–Sida to attend AAS-in-Asia, Kathmandu, Nepal. 

• ASPR Science Communication Fellowship, Harvard University, USA

2024

• Director’s Gold Medal for Overall Outstanding Performance in PhD, IIT Gandhinagar, India

•  ISAZ Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Award (declined due to other commitments). 

•  Full travel and accommodation support to attend APAD Conference, University of Liège, Belgium

• ‘Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences’ Grant, Association for Asian Studies (AAS), supported by the Government of Sweden 

• Research Scholarship Grant, INTACH Heritage Academy (Co-recipient)

2023

• Travel support from IIT Gandhinagar to attend International Conference, University of Valencia, Spain 

•  First Prize (cash), “3 Minutes Simply Speaking” Competition, Language and Diversity Initiative, IIT Gandhinagar 

• Earth Scholarship, SGSAH, and British Council Scotland

2022–2023

• Outstanding Instructor / Graduate Teaching Fellow (GTF), Introduction to Writing, IIT Gandhinagar

2022

• Travel Grant, Indigenous and More-Than-Human Ecological Justice Workshop, Chiang Mai University, Thailand (partial support)

•  Fully Funded Travel Grant, LNUC Summer School: The Colonial Anthropocene, Linnaeus University, Sweden ($1,290)

•  Travel Award, ESEH Conference, University of Bristol, UK 

2021–2022

• Inlaks Ravi Sankaran Conservation Small Grant for PhD project

2018

• Travel Grant, UNESCO International Conference on Groundwater Vulnerability, Ustroń, Poland