ARVIND PANDEY

Biography

Dr. Arvind Kumar Pandey is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati. Before joining IIT, Tirupati, Dr. Pandey was working as an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy and Governance, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad. He completed his M. Phil. and Ph.D. from the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has an interdisciplinary background with a Master's in Geography, M.Phil. and PhD. in Population Studies and an extensive research experience in development studies.

Before joining TISS, he was working as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), New Delhi, on a project- ‘Sustainable, Healthy, Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC)’ which is managed by the GCRF Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods, University of Glasgow. This project is part of an international consortium of nine research institutions in seven countries. During his three-year duration in NIUA, he has worked on several projects funded by UNICEF, UNDP, ICMPD, and ICLD. He was also part of the research team that provided input for the National Urban Policy Framework (Draft) of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India.

He worked for UNESCO-India as an Individual Consultant in 2016. He was also part of a team of the Trans-Disciplinary Cluster at Jawaharlal Nehru University, in which he has worked on two projects titled “Transformative Pathways to Sustainability: Learning across Disciplines, Contexts and Cultures” sponsored by the International Social Science Council and “Urbanisation and Sustainability in the era of Globalisation: Emerging Scenarios in South-West National Capital Region” sponsored by University Programme for Excellence (UPE-II).

Dr Arvind’s academic credentials include a scholarship to attend Population and Development Institute in 2014 from Brown International Advanced Research Institute (BIARI), Brown University, USA, a Gold Medal in the University for the first Rank in M.A., and a Senior Research Fellowship to conduct research in Population Studies from the University Grants Commission.