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Here is an exciting opportunity!

Lancaster University in collaboration with IIT Kanpur has organized short courses for early career researchers and postgraduate students.

 

5th October – 6th October

9.30am – 5.30pm

India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India

 

Fully funded registration for all.

Travel stipends available on need basis.

Click here to apply. Deadline: 8th September, 2024

 

It will include multidisciplinary insights and perspective from renowned experts on food security and nutrition in India. Our expert panel includes …

• Dr Sutapa Agarwal
  • Monitoring Evaluation and Research Expert
• Prof Carlo Cafiero
  • Senior Statistician and Economist, The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• Prof Jasmine Fledderjohann
  • Professor in Sociology and Social Justice, Lancaster University
• Mr Biraj Patnaik
  • Executive Director, National Foundation for India
• Mr V R Raman
  • National Convenor, Public Health Resource Network and
  • Executive Director, Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability
• Prof Dipa Sinha
  • Independent Food Insecurity Expert
• Prof Sukumar Vellakkal
  • Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

European Society of Health and Medical Sociology (ESHMS) Conference in Antwerp

Dr Charumita Vasudev will be presenting the paper : What a ‘Good Mother’ Eats: Food Choices, Sacrifices and the Politics of Provisioning at ESHMS conference.

Project team presenting at European Population Conference

Dr Charumita Vasudev will be presenting the paper titled  ‘Understanding the Demographics of Food Insecurity: A Praxis-Oriented Reflexive Approach‘ at European Population Conference (EPC) 2024 in Edinburgh on 13 June.

 

Roundtable with senior academics including our very own Dr. Jasmine Fledderjohann at the Politics and Practices of Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice at School Of The Arts Library – University of Liverpool, Liverpool.

Project team will be presenting at the British Journal of Sociology Conference, 15-16 April 2024, LSE, UK

• Dr Ankita Rathi will be discussing her paper titled ‘Food Insecurity, Labour Precarity, and Debt in India Links between Debt and Social Reproduction‘ in the upcoming BJS conference.
• Dr Swayamshree Mishra will be discussing her paper titled ‘Research with children: Deciphering meaning-making and agency through an intersectional approach‘

Conference details can be found here. More information about the papers to follow.

Project team presenting at British Sociological Association – Virtual Annual Conference 2024: Crisis, Continuity and Change

Dr. Charumita Vasudev will be presenting a paper entitled – What a ‘Good Mother’ Eats : Food Choices, Sacrifices and the Politics of Provisioning. This paper discusses how socially constructed ideals of a ‘good mother’ affect women’s daily choices, preferences , planning for and allocation of food within the family.

Project team presenting at Population Association of America (PAA 2024), Annual Meeting

Dr. Charumita Vasudev will be presenting a paper entitled – Understanding the demographics of food insecurity: A praxis-oriented reflexive approach . The paper questions the focus on objectivity in demographic research and suggests methods to generate data that is closer to the lived realities and can thus better inform policy.