Professor and PI
Madras Institute of Development Studies
Email: ajit@mids.ac.in
Research Expertise: Political ecology with a focus on fisheries and forests, the political economy of development and conservation, agrarian transformation.
Researcher and Head of the Department
Department of Geospatial Monitoring & Information Technology
French Institute of Pondicherry Email: christophe.proisy@ifpindia.org
Research Expertise: Remote sensing of mangrove forests, coastal zone monitoring and simulation of the dynamics of mangrove coasts. Interdisciplinary research focus on challenges facing southern developing countries.
Research Engineer
Monitoring & Information Technology French Institute of Pondicherry Email:balu.d@ifpindia.org
Research Expertise: Information technology applications and platforms for knowledge on biodiversity and social sciences. Technology studies with a focus on technological communities and their practices, coordination of bio-information programs.
Head of GIS Projects
Department of Geospatial Monitoring & Information Technology
French Institute of Pondicherry Email: muhusankar@ifpindia.org
Research Expertise: Spatial data monitoring, specialized in Coastal areas erosion, satellite image analysis and GIS-systems.
Researcher
Ecology Department
French Institute of Pondicherry Email:balachandran.n@ifpindia.org
Research Expertise: Botany and ecology, monitoring ecosystems changes, and specialized in biodiversity.
Researcher
Department of Social Sciences
French Institute of Pondicherry Email: nicolas.bautes@ifpindia.org
Research Expertise: Political geography, specialized in heritage politics and social issues. Skilled in comparative mixed-methods on spatial dynamics and politics. Main field work in India and Brazil.
Researcher
Department of Social Sciences
French Institute of Pondicherry Email: senthil.babu@ifpindia.org
Research Expertise: History and history of science and anthropology of technics. Skilled in participatory approaches and social movements.
Arun B. Inamdar
Professor
Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai Email: abi@iitb.ac.in
Research Expertise: Remote sensed data for assessing/monitoring various water quality parameters and primary productivity (PP) of the coastal ocean; coastal land use and vulnerability studies; wetlands; integrated coastal management.
Professor
Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai Email:dp@hss.iitb.ac.in
Research Expertise: Urban Studies, Development Studies, Rural / Agrarian Sociology, Law and Governance, Legal Pluralism, Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change, Gender and Development, Disaster Studies.
Research Assistant
Slovenian Migration Institute Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts Email: martina.bofulin@zrc-sazu.si
Research Expertise: Chinese migration, immigration to Slovenia, Chinese tourists, migration studies, ethnic studies, migrants and health care, transnational families, ethnographic methodology.
Research Fellow
Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Email: natasa.rogelja@zrc-sazu.si
Research Expertise: Mediterranean studies (with a special focus on the Adriatic area), anthropology of tourism, maritime anthropology, lifestyle migration and ethnographic methodology.
Professor
School of International Development
University of East Anglia Email: n.rao@uea.ac.uk
Research Expertise: Gendered land relations, agriculture, migration and livelihoods, especially in a context of climate change, food and nutrition security, education, and intra-household relations.
Senior Research Associate and Associate Tutor
School of International Development
University of East Anglia Email: carole.white@uea.ac.uk
Research Expertise: Social environmental scientist with research interests in social wellbeing, resilience and social-ecological systems, specializing in coastal fishing communities.
Reader
University of East Anglia Email: B.Taylor@uea.ac.uk
Research Expertise: Histories of state expansion and change, migration, ideologies and violence, as well as histories of marginalization, xenophobia and identity. Intersections between national, imperial and international structures in the regulation of migration, refugee movements, public health and welfare.
Lecturer
School of International Development
University of East Anglia
Email: m.abranches@uea.ac.uk
Research Expertise: Social anthropology and development
Natalie Djohari
Research Associate , School of International Development
University of East Anglia
Email: N.Djohari@uea.ac.uk
Research Expertise: Social Anthropologist with interest in emotional geographies and the relationship between place and well-being. She has a particular interest in young people’s experiences and has previously explored the social and community benefits of angling in coastal communities.
Professor Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam
Norwegian College of Fisheries Science UiT Arctic University of Norway Email: j.m.bavinck@uva.nl
Research Expertise: Fisheries governance, coastal zone development, livelihood/wellbeing studies, legal pluralism, South Asia
Associate Professor, Vice Dean of Education
Norwegian College of Fisheries Science
UiT Arctic University of Norway Email:mailto:bjornpetter.finstad@uit.no
Research Expertise: Modernization and industrialization of Norwegian fisheries, WWII fisheries, fish processing industry, conflicts over trawl fishing, polar history, organizations and institutions in fisheries.
Associate Professor
Norwegian College of Fisheries Science
UiT Arctic University of Norway Email: keshav.p.paudel@uit.no
Research Expertise: GIS and remote sensing, social ecological system, marine resource management, adaptation to climate change, ecosystem services.
PhD student
Norwegian College of Fisheries Science
UiT Arctic University of Norway
Email: tara.n.lawrence@uit.no
Research Expertise: Trawl fisheries, ecological and social transformation of costal India
Surabi Ganapathy
PhD student and Project Manager
Madras Institute of Development Studies
Email: surabi78@gmail.com
Research Expertise: Contract Farming in South India