Subhanjan Sengupta, Ph.D.

Academy of Finland PostDoc

Principal Investigator, Project MILESTONE

Business School, University of Eastern Finland

Bio

Dr. Subhanjan Sengupta works at the Business School, University of Eastern Finland, as an Academy of Finland PostDoc and Principal Investigator of Project MILESTONE (Making Circular Economy Socially Inclusive through Entrepreneurship), funded by the Academy of Finland

He has a keen interest in finding out how certain enterprising actors integrate social and environmental sustainability in what they do. That intrigues him to explore the sustainability agency of these actors, such as social enterprises, environmental startups, social purpose organisations, and even sustainability-oriented small and medium enterprises. With that interest, his current research is about the making of a socially inclusive circular economy through social and sustainable entrepreneurship and the role of business models in sustainability.

Prior to this, he has researched social entrepreneurship in rural settings, particularly on the social-market convergence, resource dependency, and ethics as practice. Occasionally, he also participates in multidisciplinary understandings related to his research by collaborating with specialists from other fields such as environmental sciences, biological sciences, sociology, and policy.

He has developed and taught courses to postgraduate students on basics of entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, responsible business, and strategic management. At the doctoral level, he has developed and taught courses on qualitative research methods.


Achievements

News

New India-Finland collaborative research project CESMI (Circular Economy Solutions for Microplastics: Indo-Finnish Scientific Collaboration for Innovation), funded by Ministry of Education and Culture (Finland), under the initiative of the bilateral cooperation - FICORE (Finnish India Consortia for Education and Research).

Project partners include University of Eastern Finland (UEF) , Tampere University , IIT Delhi , IIT Guwahati and IIT Dharwad.

The project is multidisciplinary, bringing researchers from environmental sciences, biological sciences, social sciences and business studies, to explore the role of science, society, business and non-business actors, in addressing challenges towards a plastic circular economy in general and microplastic contaminantion in particular.

• Awarded prestigious Academy of Finland research funding for a three-year ambitious Postdoctoral Research and international research mobility: https://www.aka.fi/en/about-us/whats-new/press-releases/2022/first-rate-early-career-researchers-granted-postdoctoral-researcher-funding-in-social-sciences-and-humanities-research/ 

• New podcast on ethics in entrepreneurship: https://entrepreneurship-erd.com/podcast/authors-36-subhanja-sengupta-hanna-lehtimaki-contextual-understanding-of-care-ethics-in-social-entrepreneurship/ 

• Interviewed and featured by Inkpothub Media, India’s first digital platform for communicating business and management research. Link: https://www.inkpothub.com/research-stories/the-doctoral-journey-builds-character-ft-dr-subhanjan-sengupta-bimtech/

Kick-Off Meeting of Indo-UK research project TRANSSITioN held on 13th August 2019. Sponsored by STFC-GCRF, UK; led by University of Sheffield and STFC, 10 UK India partners.  https://transsition.org