About

Charudatta Navare is a Science Education researcher. He holds a PhD from the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. His PhD work focused on the hidden social values in undergraduate biology textbooks.

Charudatta is broadly interested in Feminist Science Studies, Science, Technology, and Society (STS) studies, and Science Education research. His research has been published in Science & Education, Cultural Studies of Science Education, and Metascience. His writing has also appeared in Aeon magazine. His non-fiction comic book ‘A Germ of an Idea: Microbes, Us, and the Microbes Within Us’, published by Eklavya, featured in Parag Honour List (2022).

Before joining Krea University, he was a Visiting Fellow at IISER Mohali.

Research

Science Education; Feminist Science Studies; Science, Technology, and Society (STS)

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

• Navare, C. (2024). A “Scientific Fairy Tale” of Origin of Mammals. Science & Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-024-00569-1
• Navare, C. (2023). Instructions, commands, and coercive control: A critical discourse analysis of the textbook representation of the living cell. Cultural Studies of Science Education. https://www.doi.org/10.1007/s11422-022-10123-6
• Banerji, A. & Navare, C. (2013). Fractal nature of protein surface roughness: a note on quantification of change of surface roughness in active sites, before and after binding. Journal of Molecular Recognition 26.5: 201-214. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmr.2264

Publications In Edited Volumes

• Navare, C. (2023). Challenging the Tyranny of T. rex: A Critical Analysis of Visuals of Prehistoric Life. In Andreas Metzner-Szigeth (Ed.), On the Interplay of Images, Imaginaries and Imagination in Science. Florence, Italy: Olschki.
• Navare, C. (2021). Ink to Inkling: Artful Messages in the Visuals of Biology. In T. Bowen and B. Caraway (Eds), Visual Futures: Exploring the Past, Present, and Divergent Possibilities of Visual Practice. Bristol, UK: Intellect Books.

Books

• Navare, C., & Barve, R. (2021). A Germ of an Idea: Microbes, Us, and the Microbes within Us. Bhopal: Eklavya Foundation.
• Navare, C., & Barve, R. (2021) अनदेखे हमसफर: हम और हमारी ज़िन्दगी में सूक्ष्मजीव. (K.Chaudhary, Trans.) Bhopal: Eklavya Foundation.

Popular Science Articles

• Navare, C. (2024). The cell is not a factory. Aeon.
• Navare, C. (2019). How Science Played a Part in Bringing About Our Fear of the ‘Outsider’. The Wire.
• Navare, C., & Barve, R. (2019-2020). अनदेखे हमसफर: हम और हमारी ज़िन्दगी में सूक्ष्मजीव [Serialized book]. Sandarbh. Issues: 122-128.

Book Reviews

• Navare, C. (2025). Time to move away from the Linnaean system? [Review of the book The advent of PhyloCode: the continuing evolution of biological nomenclature by Laurin, M]. Metascience. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-025-01068-x

Teaching Modules

• Writing and Oral Communication (T1)
• Writing and Communication in Mathematics (T2)