Dhaneswar Bhoi

Biography

HONORARY FELLOW (DISTINGUISHED POSITION), DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND CENTRE FOR SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES, SCHOOL OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, UK & Lecturer, 'Sociology of Health', Department of Sociology and Psychology, School of Public Health, London School of Science and Technology, Elephant and Castle, London, collaborating with University of West London, London UK, De Montfort University - Leicester, UK & Buckinghamshire New University, Buckinghamshire, UK.

Module Leader, Applied Research, Public Health, De Montfort University - Leicester, UK.

Member of Research Centre, London School of Science and Technology, Elephant and Castle, London.

Supervised public health research for 8 students who successfully completed (passed) their dissertations at the University of West London and Buckinghamshire New University.

Author of 'Caste in Everyday Life: Experience and Affect in Indian Society', which was one of my post-doctoral projects. It was published by Palgrave Macmillan with the subsidiary of Singer Nature in Switzerland in September 2023.

Recent article: Bhoi, D., & Lakra, N. R. (2024). "Creating Cultural Capital for Dalits and Adivasis: Policy Passage for Their De-marginalisation in Higher Education." Journal of Social Inclusion Studies, 10(1), 98-119.

Completed Post-Doctorate at Centre for South Asian Studies, School of Social and Political Science, the University of Edinburgh (UoE), UK. He has studied Public Policy Course from Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia, USA and studied Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Course at the University of Michigan, USA. He has also studied Research Methods Course at the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) University of London, UK. Currently, he is the Editor of 'Social Inclusion' Lisbon Portugal, an Associate editor of 'Journal of the World Universities Forum,' USA, reviewer for 'Educational Research for Policy and Practice,' Springer, Singapore of Springer Nature Switzerland AG; Reviewer for the 'International Sociology,' Sage, USA, 'Sociology Study,' USA.

Dr. Bhoi has made academic visits to various countries like, Australia, Sweden, Germany, Argentina, USA, Canada, Japan, United Kingdom, Austria, Denmark, Belgium and The Netherlands.

Before joining London School of Science and Technology, London, he worked at University of Edinburgh, UK as Post Doctoral Fellow, he also worked extensively with Policy Level bodies of Government of India like, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MSJE), Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) and National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi. Having published thirty articles in different Scopus Indexed & Peer Reviewed national and international journals and edited books, Dr. Bhoi has also presented more than 75 research papers at different conferences/seminars worldwide. Also, he has participated more than twenty-five academic workshops/orientation programmes. Importantly, he has drafted eight different national and state reports on ‘education equity issues and pathways.

His interests broadly lie on Public Health, Mental Health and Psycho-social theories, Marginalisation; Educational Equity, Access & Inclusion; Experiences of Dalits and Tribes to live in life, social & education in India; Dalit Access to Neo-liberalisation & Privatisation; Caste and Racial Experiences of Students in India and United Kingdom; Public Policy and Social Welfare interventions in aiming Utilitarianism.