As nerdy as it may sound, I enjoy learning. I look forward to hearing new ideas and meeting people with varied research interests. This year as a postdoc on the ASSAR consortium, I have found myself flooded with opportunities to just this – attend trainings, go to conferences, meet some really good researchers, and inContinue reading “Pushing disciplinary boundaries: No, really.”
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ASSAR Annual Meeting: Notes on collaborative, interdisciplinary research
On my first day as a postdoctoral researcher on the ASSAR (Adaptation at Scale in Semi-arid Regions) project, I was hurled into a week-long ASSAR Annual Meeting held at IIHS, Bangalore. A wonderful mix between workshop, project meeting, networking event and academic brainstorming session, the week was the best possible induction I could get intoContinue reading “ASSAR Annual Meeting: Notes on collaborative, interdisciplinary research”
Researcher’s social capital: Liaising with local actors for effective ethnographic research
Having a good relationship with a local NGO helped me participate in severalevents not strictly related to my research. Seen above, women dancing on Women\’s Day to kill time before the formal event began. They sang local songs,spun in giddy circles and all in all entertained everyone around! The doing of research is something thatContinue reading “Researcher’s social capital: Liaising with local actors for effective ethnographic research”
Shifting the discourse from adaptation to transformational adaptation
Shallow wells provide protective irrigation during in-season dry spells.But these coping strategies may not work in an agricultural system thatis intensifying towards water-intensive cash crops. There is growing concern that climate change adaptation may have \’somehow lost its edge…lost its spunk and it became just another term for development\’. My own research from Pratapgarh, aContinue reading “Shifting the discourse from adaptation to transformational adaptation”
PhD Tips: Second Year or Fieldwork as a Planned Adventure
When I wrote out tips for First year PhD students, I didn\’t realise it would become the most viewed post on my blog (nearly 1200 views to date!). Between picking up a new job, relocating back to India, and getting used to post-PhD life (who knew I\’d miss it so?!), I found myself going throughContinue reading “PhD Tips: Second Year or Fieldwork as a Planned Adventure”
Discipline hopping: what does depression have to do with vulnerability science?
You often hear of the virtues of thinking \’out of the box\’, developing interdisciplinary reading habits, opening our minds to different influences and ideas. In spite of this, interdisciplinarity is a difficult monster to tame, and one commonly falls back on familiar authors, known reading lists, well-worn and oft-searched keywords. Skirting the peripheries of one\’sContinue reading “Discipline hopping: what does depression have to do with vulnerability science?”
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