Down The Research Rabbit Hole

Dr. Harriet Earle is a comics and pop culture scholar with a research focus on representations of violence and trauma in visual culture, particularly comics. She works as a senior lecturer of english and creative writing at the Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and is also a research fellow at the Centre for War, Atrocity, and Genocide at Nipissing University in Canada. She is the author of Comics: An Introduction (2020), and Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War (2017). In this episode, we discuss the latter publication. You can find out more about Harriet's work in detail on her faculty page at the Sheffield Hallam University website. 

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Inga Popovaite is a PhD candidate at the department of sociology and criminology at the University of Iowa. She studies emotions, gender and status in space analog environments, which we discuss in this episode. She speaks Lithuanian, Russian, and a bit of Georgian and German. You can find out more about Inga's research on her website. 

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Dr. Jagriti Gangopadhyay is an assistant professor and the faculty coordinator at the Centre for Women’s Studies, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE). She holds a PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Gandhinagar, and has had her research published in journals including the Adoption Quarterly, Taylor and Francis, Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, Springer, Sage, and Ageing International and Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, among others. Her research interests include social gerontology, family sociology and medical sociology.

In this episode, we discuss her publication: Culture, Context and Ageing of Older Indians: Narratives from India and Beyond. 

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Dr. Juhi Sidharth an assistant professor of public policy and gender studies at Flame University, Pune, India. She has engaged with the subject of gender and sexuality in her academic and professional life for the past ten years, and her doctoral research at the University of Cambridge, UK investigates the lived experiences of sexuality of young women from the slums of Mumbai. Her broad research interests cover gender, sexuality and relationships education, intersectionality, modernity, identity and development.

In this episode, we discuss her PhD dissertation, concerning how Mumbai's young slum-dwelling girls navigate dating, intimacy and romance. 

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Dr. Chaitanya Ravi is an assistant professor of Public Policy at Flame University, Pune, in India. He has taught energy policy, environmental policy, biology and microbiology at George Mason University, and environmental studies at New York University. His research interests at the intersection of energy policy, environmental policy, international relations and South Asia. You can take a look at his research on his Google Scholar page. 

In this episode, we discuss his publication, The 1971 Bangladesh War and Policy Lessons for Climate Refugee Management in South Asia. 

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Dr. Anup Tripathi is an assistant professor at Flame University in Pune, and holds Bachelor's degree in political science from University of Delhi and holds Master's and PhD degrees from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai. He has been a visiting scholar at Masaryk University in Czech Republic and Roskilde University in Denmark, and is also a recipient of the NET-Junior research fellowship by the UGC and NTSE scholarship by the NCERT, and has worked extensively as a researcher and teaching associate. You can find his research up on his Google scholar page. 

In this episode, we discuss his PhD dissertation, Cognising Homelessness:  A Gaze into the Lived Experiences of Homeless People in Mumbai. 

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Dr. Tannistha Samanta is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Sociology at FLAME University, Pune, India. Her research broadly lies at the interdisciplinary crossroads of family sociology and gerontology where she focuses on living arrangements, social capital and health, older adult sexualities and theory development in ageing studies. You can find her on Twitter at @tannistha14, and check out her research on her Google Scholar page. 

In this episode, we discuss her publication: Living Solo at Midlife: Can the Pandemic de stigmatise living alone in India?, which explores how single middle-aged Indian women navigate their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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