Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director, Krea-CWP and Associate Professor, Literature, SIAS, and Dr Anakshi Pal, Visiting Assistant Professor, Krea-CWP, conducted a Faculty Development Workshop titled ‘The Body and Soul of Research Writing’ at the Madras Christian College (MCC), Chennai, on 11 March 2026.
Dr Shyam Kumar Sudhakar, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, SIAS, delivered a talk titled ‘Graph-based and Machine Learning Approaches to Understanding Brain Health and Function’ as part of the Synapse neuroscience conference, held from 6-7 March 2026 at IISER Tirupati. Undergraduate students from Krea, Nidhi, Zoeya, and Kailash also presented their ideas during the ideathon held alongside the conference. Synapse 2026 was two day neuroscience focussed symposium funded by ANRF and IISER Tirupati, hosting ideathon competitions, poster presentation and research talks.
A paper by Dr Lakshmi Narayanan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS, titled Global response of low and mid-latitude ionosphere to the severe geomagnetic storm of April 2023 has been publishedin the Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy. The paper is published as a part of the special issue ‘The evolution and space weather impact of coronal mass ejections’ organised following a workshop at Krea University in early 2024 that brought together scientists from India and the USA. This paper is a case study of an intense space weather event in the present solar cycle. A detailed investigation of response of low and midlatitude ionosphere to the geomagnetic storm generated by a coronal mass ejection was made in the study. Data from in-situ plasma density measurements made by European Space Agency’s Swarm satellite mission is used in the study. Interestingly, the findings reveal that conventional magnetic and space weather indices do not adequately predict the nature of the ionospheric response. This work also contributes to the ongoing ANRF EMITS project, highlighting its broader relevance to space weather research.
Professor Anil Srinivasan, Visiting Professor of Practice, Literature and the Arts, SIAS, was conferred the prestigious award of RCME Dronacharya Award in October 2025.
More recently Professor Anil was the keynote speaker at ThinkEdu 2026 by The New Indian Express. Anil headlined the discussion titled ‘AI in Arts: Why Humanity Will Survive’.
Vidhya Sathishkumar, Teaching Fellow, OB&HR, IFMR GSB, presented a research paper titled ‘Women and Work-Life Integration in the Digital Era’ at the 2nd Case and Research Conference 2026 organised by Indian Institute of Management Nagpur (IIM Nagpur). The paper is co-authored with Naveen M, Teaching Fellow, Marketing & Communication, IFMR GSB. The paper examines the evolving dynamics of digital work environments and their implications for women’s work-life integration.
Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS, has co-authored an op-ed titled Lost in war: An alternative template of governance, published in Hindustan Times. The article discusses the current assault on Rojava, and why it’s a matter of grave concern for all.
Dr Madhavilatha Maganti, Associate Professor, Psychology, SIAS, was involved in multiple academic engagements recently.
Dr Madhavilatha delivered a flash talk on 18 February 2026 at the Institute for the Science of Early Years and Youth (ISEY), University of East London, presenting work from the Infant and child Development Lab on ‘Analysing caregiver-infant interactions with high and low-risk infants’ as part of the workshop on ‘Novel Methods for Parent-Child Interaction Research.’
She also participated in a 2-day workshop on ‘Naturalistic Experimentation of Child Development (NECD)’ on 19-20 February 2026.
The workshop highlighted methods for analysing naturalistic experimental data in developmental research. Dr Madhavilatha presented Krea’s lab work on parent-child interactions and neurodevelopmental studies in low- and middle-income settings, addressing practical challenges in community-based research, cultural diversity, and inclusive research practices.
From 24–25 February 2026, Dr Madhavilatha held discussions with faculty at the University of Exeter on potential collaboration and research partnerships, and presented an overview of Psychology at Krea, highlighting its research laboratories and faculty research interests.
On 26 February 2026, Dr Madhavilatha delivered a talk titled ‘The Multimodal Nature of Early Experiences in High and Low-Risk Infants: What’s Going on in Their Tiny Minds?’ for MSc Clinical Psychology students and Psychology faculty at the University of Exeter, as part of the Think Tank/CYP Wellbeing Network seminar.
Dr Vivek Tewary, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, SIAS and Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP led a two-day workshop on ‘Strategies of Reading & Writing for Effective Teaching of STEMM Disciplines’ at GITAM Deemed to be University, Visakhapatnam.
In this interactive two-day workshop conducted through 27 and 28 February 2026, they discussed how STEMM faculty and research scholars can train themselves and their students to be more effective readers and writers in their disciplines. The workshop focussed on equipping attendees with the pedagogical skills required to enhance their students’ disciplinary engagement—by learning strategic classroom techniques for reading and writing as they play out in science disciplines. Sessions included Teaching Students to Read Scientific Texts/Papers, Reading Equations & Figures in Scientific Texts/Papers, Writing About Scientific Concepts, Using Worksheets as a Pedagogical Tool, Using Analogies & Definitions, and Integrating Reading-Writing in STEMM Curricula. The workshop was well-appreciated and attended by about 25 faculty and research scholars from mechanical engineering; electrical, electronic, and communication engineering; computer science engineering; life science; mathematics; and management sciences.
Dr Proma Raychaudhury, Assistant Professor, Politics, SIAS has signed a contract with Oxford University Press (USA) for her monograph, Institutional Belonging: Women and Party Politics in West Bengal, India (OUP Series: Studies in Feminist Institutionalism).
The book will offer a feminist institutionalist study of political party cultures in India to delineate the institutional belonging and political self-makings of women party members. It will illustrate the play of gendered formal rules and informal practices that condition and constrain women’s representation, participation, and subjective experiences of belonging in political party cultures.
Dr Henry Vumjou, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Philosohy, SIAS, authored a paper titled Where Kant’s Hospitality Meets ‘Zo Hospitality’? published by Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart in the book East Meets West: Justice, Law, and Politics. The volume is part of the Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie – Beihefte series, edited by Makoto Usami and Hidehiko Adachi.
