Chandrika Parmar

Dr. Chandrika Parmar is an Associate Professor at SPJIMR.

She has a DPhil in Management Studies from Said Business School, University of Oxford. She started as a political scientist but pluralised her disciplinary moorings a while ago.

In a professional sense, Chandrika is a sum of various intellectual vectors: an interlocking collection of individuals she has worked with, an assortment of research projects and an experiment in institution building. She was Associate Director, Programmes, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) Delhi where she was part of several national and international research projects funded by HIVOS; Ford Foundation; Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs; Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) to mention a few. She was subsequently a faculty member at Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad, where she was head for Media Management area and Managing editor of Sage journal Journal of Creative Communications. She joined the Institute of Science Innovation and Society at the Said Business School, University of Oxford as a mature student for a DPhil where she worked on Disaster Studies. She was also Senior Researcher at the European Research Council (ERC) funded project at Centre for Social Studies, at University of Coimbra, Portugal which was anchored on the understanding that “Alternatives are not lacking in the world. What is missing is an alternative thinking of alternatives.

Her Doctoral degree: Pluriverse of Disasters: Knowledge, Mediation and Citizenship examines of how the knowledge framework within which organizations are embedded frames and impacts their response to disasters.

Chandrika's work has ranged across several domains including partition memories, environmental values, election studies, and technological controversies. She has been engaged with how democratic values are reworked around these sites. She is currently interested in cities as a space where citizenship and problem-solving are worked out as everyday experiments in civic epistemology.

Chandrika has been the recipient of several fellowships like James Martin Studentship, University of Oxford; Travel grants from Green Templeton College, University of Oxford; Fellowships in South Asian Alternatives (FISAA), Colombo; She has also held the Junior Research Fellowship-UGC-JRF (1992-94) and the Senior Research Fellowship (1994-96) at the Department of Political Science Panjab University, Chandigarh

She was the member of International Advisory Board of Centre for Governance and Constitutionalism, Lagos, Nigeria; and Member, International Advisory Committee, Global Conference on Genocide Dhaka, Bangladesh

Her interests centre around Futures; Alternatives; Public Policy; Democratic theory; Consumption; Sociology of Knowledge; Science Technology and Society (Science Studies);Disasters Studies; Sociology of Violence.