Sayendri Panchadhyayi, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
I am an interdisciplinary sociologist with interests in social gerontology, medical anthropology, sociology of care and lifecourse, death and bereavement, and policy research.
I am part of the editorial team at En-Gender.
I am also enlisted as a Visiting Faculty at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore offering an elective course on 'Ageing, Lifecourse and Death Studies' (Nov 2023 - Feb 2024).
I have been a Research Fellow at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and worked on a project titled 'Healthcare Inequalities in India: Mapping actors, logics and care practices.' Check Sabr, the next phase of this project.
Work-in-progress manuscripts & projects
Paper with Dr. Manacy Pai & Dayo (awaiting editor decision)
Paper with Bhanu Tanwar (to-be-began).
Pilot project with Sanchita Ghosh (ongoing).
Book review of 'Care and the Pluriverse' for Anthropological Theory Commons.
Article for The Polyphony on the bioethical quagmire of legalizing PHR in India.
News & Announcements
December 2024: Contribution to Storying Later Life: Cultural Gerontological Perspectives from India as part of the Global Ageing Series (Bristol University Press) co-edited by Tannistha Samanta and Irudaya Rajan.
December 2024: Contribution to a special issue on 'Ageing in India and the USA: A comparative perspective by 'Society' (Springer).
Paper on 'Raising a child in India': Ideas of Childhood and Patterning Childcare as part of an edited volume.
October 2024: Invited talk on 'the unpreparedness of doing research on Covid-19' organized by the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan.
July 2024: Publication of debate piece in 'Anthropology & Aging'.
July 2024: Paper presentation (virtual) on 'Longing and Belonging in Care: Ayahs caring for older people in India and re-reading ‘healthy ageing' at the British Society of Gerontology (BSG) Annual Conference 2024 hosted by Newcastle University.
June 2024: Official website launch of Sabr.
June 2024: Session talk entitled 'Warp and Weft: Urban as the Visual Catalyst for Benign Consumption' on the topic of 'Contemporary Visual Cultures: Diversifying Teaching and Research Practices' for FDP organized by VIT-AP.
May 2024: My article Ayahs: from the colonial to the contemporary published in Sabr.
April 2024: Public lecture on Protection of rights of elderly people in India in socio-legal issues, challenges and our priorities in the global modernised world organized by Surendranath Law College and NSS Cell, Presidency University.
April 2024: Book review of 'Care and Support Rights After Neoliberalism' published in International Journal of Care and Caring (Bristol University Press) - Scopus.
March 2024: Book review of 'Care Poverty' published in Anthropology & Aging (Journal of the Association for Anthropology & Gerontology) - Scopus and Web of Sciences-indexed.
March 2024: Paper presentation invitation at the Age and Generation Network (AGENET) of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) on ‘Kinning, Moving, and Growing in Later Life.
March 2024: Plenary session debate on 'Debating the Role of Technology in Kinship and ‘Desirable’ Aging Futures' organized by Anthropology & Ageing for EASA-AGENET Conference 2024 (debate text will be published). Title: Technologized intimacies and hybrid kinship in framing care and later-life support.
March 2024: A care justice pathway to empower older women with dementia in National Seminar on creating a dementia-friendly society for elderly citizens: Issues and Challenges organized by Department of Sociology, Jamia Milia Islamia Central University in collaboration with National Institute of Social Defence, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of India, New Delhi.
Feb 2024: Invited talk as part of the Global South Speaker Series at the Centre for Social Science Research, The Global South Research Hub, George Mason University, USA.
Feb 2024: Seminar talk for Centre for Care chaired by Sue Yeandle.
Feb 2024: Plenary speaker for 'Gender, Demography and Care in India' chaired by Dr. Ketaki Chowkhani organized by Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy Higher Education (MAHE), Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
December 2023: I have received funding to present paper on 'Cultures of Childhood in Contemporary South Asia' in South Asian University organized jointly by Department of Sociology, South Asian University (SAU), Child Rights and You (CRY, Delhi) and ICSSR.
November 2023: International Associate at the Centre for Care, a collaboration between the Universities of Sheffield, Birmingham, Kent and Oxford, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the Office for National Statistics, and three leading charities : Carers UK, the National Children's Bureau and the Social Care Institute for Excellence.
November 2023: I will be speaking at the Roundtable and Discussion on the topic of "Care in Crisis" as a part of Covid in the House of Old Exhibit organized by the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, and the Montreal History Group. Title: Unpacking care poverty and thanatopolitics of the state in the COVID hours.
November 2023: The Dismantled Clock: Chronicling Parietal Osteosarcoma and Waiting for Healing, The Polyphony, Institute of Medical Humanities - Durham University.
November 2023: Visiting faculty at National Law School of India University (NLSIU) offering a full-time elective course on 'Ageing, Lifecourse and Death Studies'.
September 2023: I have been invited to give a talk as part of the The Ayah and Amah International Research Network, Seminar Series 2023, organized by The Ayah and Amah International Research Network, London School of Economics and Political Science. Chair: Swapna Banerjee.
August 2023: My article The Tedium of Chronic Waiting: Delay, Temporality and Gender in Access to Healthcare in India has been published in The Polyphony, a platform by the Institute of Medical Humanities - Durham University.
July 2023: I have been awarded funding from the British Sociological Association to attend the Annual Medical Sociology Conference 2023 at the University of Sussex, UK.
June 2023: I have been selected to submit a full-length manuscript for the special issue of Mortality (Routledge - Taylor & Francis) on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Centre for Death & Society, University of Bath, UK on the theme 'Innovation at the end of life'.
May 2023: I won the Best Paper Award at the Second Global South Students' Conference organized by the Center for Social Science Research, George Mason University, USA.
January 2022: I joined as a part of the Age, Care and the Caring Crisis Working Group, an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional initiative of BISR (Birkbeck Institute of Social Research), University of London.