Dr. Sumita Sarkar
Dr. Sumita Sarkar
Dean Liberal Arts and Sciences
-
Economics
Dr. Sumita Sarkar is a Sociologist by profession. She did her M.Phil and PhD from Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS), Mumbai. Under Sir Dorabji Merit Fellowship, and Ministry of Home Affairs Doctoral Fellowship, New Delhi.
She pursued her Post Doctoral Research at Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK under Sir Ratan Tata Fellowship.
Dr. Sarkar has over two decades of experience in academics and action research. Her research collaboration focussed on gender and development area, alternative tourism, indigenous livelihood and sustainable development, media studies, urban gentrification and youth crime, women in coal mines, micro entrepreneurship and women in BPO and its impact on reproductive health.
Her study is on displaced women plantation workers in North Bengal Tea Gardens and emerging issues of sustainable and Alternative Livelihood. This study has led to development of “Gender and Underclass” Theory by her in the area of Labour studies in the context of Indian and Global South.
Dr. Sarkar’s collaborative research with international universities like LSE, UK, York University, UK, University of Manchester, UK, University of Brighton, UK, Charles University Prague, Chez Republic, CEU, Vienna and Hungary, ICUB, University of Bucharest, Romania, Peleki Institute of Polish Government, Warsaw, Poland, University of Lodz, Poland, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia are few important ones to mention at her credit.
She has authored two Books; titled: Globalization & Gender and Gender Inequality & Discriminatory Practices in India – Discourse & Dilemmas. She has about 32 research publications, 10 international working research papers and monographs to her credit.
Apart from academics and research, Dr. Sarkar has been actively involved in action research and collaborating with PETA, Greenpeace, CARE India, CRY and a few local NGOs in Mumbai and Bengal working in area of Women and Children Health.
We Welcome her as she now joined Prestige Institute of Management and Research, (PIMR, Indore) as Dean, Department of Liberal Arts and Science at PIMR, UG Campus.
Subjects
Women Studies, Urban Studies, Sustainability Livelihood, Research Methodology, Sociology
Area of Training and Consultancy
Advocacy & Campaigning on Women & Child Health.
Professional Affiliation
- International Journal of Sociology & Anthropology.
- International Reviewer at www.ms.academicjournals.org
- International Journal of English Literature http://ms.academicjournals.org/
- Asian Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Studies http://www.ikprress.org/index.php/AJAHSS/about
- Asian Journal of Sociological Research
- Asian Journal of media and communication
- Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies
- Post-Doc, London School of Economics
- Ph. D.
- Tata Institute of Social Science(TISS)
- M. Phil
- Best British Post Graduate Research Award, 2000.
- Dorabji Merit Fellowship, TISS, 1996.
- Ministry of Home affairs doctoral Fellowship, 2000.
- Sir Ratan Tata post doctoral Fellowship, Asia Research centre London school of economics and political science, 2008.
- Senior Visiting professor Fellow, Charles University, prague Chez Republic, 2016.
- Senior Research Excellence Fellow, CEU , 2019, ( Hungary and Vienna).
- Visiting professor fellow, ICUB University of Bucharest Romania, 2023-24.
Popular Culture and Youth Crimes in Urban India, guest lecture, at the University of Kent, 2009
Paper titled “Urban Safety and Resurgence to Policy Implementation: A Case of Mumbai”, is presented at International Conference on Economic Reform in India and China – Emerging Issues and Challenges, 29-30, Feb, 2005, IGIDR Campus.
Paper on “Growing Insecurity and Unsafe Life in Mumbai Metropolis: Implication for Policy Intervention”, submitted and accepted in ‘Resurgent City Symposium, 2004, London School of Economics’, 19th –21st April, 2004.
“Juvenile Delinquency and Role of School: Three Cases of Homicide in Kolkata Metropolis”, Paper was accepted for the Second International Conference on Violence in School, May 11-14, 2003, Qubec City, Canada, (not presented).
Paper entitled “The Youth in Organized Crime in Mumbai Metropolis: A Developmental Perspectives” presented at Post Graduate Conference, University of Leicester, UK, Scarman Centre, April, 2003
“Social Pathology and Youth Anomie – A Case Study of Mumbai City”. Presented at British Post Graduate Criminology Conference, University of Hull, UK, Center for Criminology and Criminal Justice, April, 2002.
Developments in Information Technology and Criminal Vulnerability: Emerging Challenges in Urban India, 2003, The Indian Police Journal, Vol. L, No (2), P: 62.
Penology and Penalty of Death: Discourse and Dilemmas, CBI Bulletin, Vol. X, No. (9),Sept 2002, pp: 15
Sarkar, S. (2002): Combating Organized Crime as Systems Strategy: A Case of Mumbai Metropolis in the Indian Police Journal, January – March, pp. 42-52.
Globalization and Women at Work: A Feminist Discourse, 2007, International Feminist Summit, Townsville, Australia
Paper titled “Workaholism among professionals”, presented in conference at IIT Kanpur, at Annual Psychological Conference, 2007
Development & Crime: Future Shock of India, working research paper, Presented at Public Lecture, LSE, 2009
- Development Studies
- Gender & Development Labour Studies
- Alternative tourism & indigenous Culture
- Plantation Displacement & Sustainable Livelihood
- Popular Media
- Urban development
- Women & Forest Livelihood & Sustainability