• Souradip Pathak

    souradippathak521@gmail.com

    Profile

    Ph.D. Scholar and EqUIP Fellow works at Rekhi Centre of Excellence for the Science of Happiness, IIT Kharagpur under the supervision of Dr. Jenia Mukherjee. Pursues research on the environment and activism in the Dry Fish Sector in Indian Sundarbans Delta. Completed B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics from the University of Calcutta in 2014. Studied M.Sc. in Human Rights from the University of Calcutta in 2016. Qualified UGC-NET in Human Rights and Duties in December 2018. He has been pursuing his research interests on transdisciplinary research on the overlapping areas of environment, ecology, and human rights with a special focus on the Global South since the days of his masters.

    Selected as Winter-Intern and worked at National Human Rights Commission, India (2015-16). Also worked as Research Investigator at Centre for Child Rights in partnership with UNICEF, West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences in 2017. Completed an online (non-credit) course on “The Science of Well-Being” from Yale. He got selected and successfully participated at V2V Chilika Field School on Environmental Change and Governance: Rethinking Coastal Sustainability and Development organized by Vulnerability To Viability (V2V) Global Partnership, University of Waterloo, Canada in collaboration with Rekhi Centre of Excellence for the Science of Happiness, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and NIRMAN Odisha. Participated at MARE conference 2021.

    Research Thrust

    Transdisciplinary research on the overlapping areas of environment, ecology and human rights with special focus on the Global South