Professor Romila Thapar, Professor Kumkum Roy and Dr Preeti Gulati,Discipline Coordinator – History and Assistant Professor, History, SIAS have co-authored the book Women Writing History: Three Generations published by Zubaan Books. Three historians from three generations reflecting on their lives and their engagement with one of the most demanding, and most crucial, disciplines of our times.
A research paper co-authored by Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS titled Bridging Climate Science, Policy, and Communities: Collaborative Pathways for Climate Resilience in the Indo-Pacific has been published in Frontiers in Climate, Volume 7-2025. This study was performed under the aegis of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)’s “My Climate Risk Lighthouse Activity” that aims to develop and mainstream a ‘bottom-up’ approach to regional climate risk.
A research paper co-authored by Dr Praveen Bhagawan M, Associate Professor, Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance and Area Chair – Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance, IFMR GSB titled, Intensity of Exploitation-Exploration Innovation Strategies and Credit Ratings, has been published in Economic Modelling journal (“A” category journal as per ABDC list with an Impact Factor = 4.2 & CiteScore= 8).
Dr Lakshmi Narayanan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS has co-authored an article titled Study of rotational temperatures with a multi-wavelength photometer from the Indian equatorial station Tirunelveli published recently in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. This is a validation paper of an instrument the team developed at the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism. In this paper, the authors show that they could successfully measure temperatures from the upper mesosphere around 87 km. The results are validated through comparison with NASA’s SABER/TIMED satellite observations and other ground based airglow imaging observations.
A research paper by Soumyabrata Basu, PhD Scholar, IFMR GSB co-authored by Dr Praveen Bhagawan, Associate Professor, Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance and Area Chair – Finance, IFMR GSB and Dr Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor, Economics and Chairperson – PhD Programme, IFMR GSB titled, Bankruptcy Reform and Audit Fees: Evidence from Quasi-natural Experiment in India has been published in Finance Research Letters (FRL) journal. It is an “A” category journal as per ABDC list with an Impact Factor of 7.4, CiteScore of 11.1, and SJR score (2024) of 1.71.
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A research paper by Dr Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor, Economics and Chairperson – PhD Programme, IFMR GSB, titled, Energy Poverty and Education: Evidence from Indian Households (co-authored with Dr Manasi B) has been published as a chapter (Chapter 6) in the Routledge Handbook of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Research and Policy Edited by Ranjula Bali Swain and Peter Dobers.
A research article co-authored by Dr Randhir Rai, Visiting Faculty, Chemistry, SIAS, titled Catalytic Application of Benedict Reaction Waste in Laboratory Wastewater Treatment and Recycling: A Circular Chemical Economy has been published in Asian Journal of Chemistry, an International Peer Reviewed Research Journal of Chemistry.
A research paper co-authored by Dr Debankur Saha, Assistant Professor & Area Chair – Marketing, IFMR GSB, titled Influence of Avitourism Experience in Developing Environmentally Responsible Behaviour has been published in Tourism Recreation Research (ABDC – A / Scopus – Q1). The paper has been co-authored with Professor Anirban Chakraborty (IIM Lucknow).
This study explores the connection between birdwatching (avitourism) experiences and individuals’ commitment to environmental responsibility. It examines how various dimensions of avitourism experiences contribute to visitor well-being and promote environmentally responsible behaviour (ERB).
A case study co-authored by Professor Balasubramanian Vijayalakshmi, Professor, OB & HR, IFMR GSB; Professor N Chandrasekaran, Professor Chandrasekaran N, Professor, Operations and Strategy, Area Chair – Strategic Management and Chairperson – Executive MBA programme, IFMR GSB; and Dr Sathya Saminadan R S, Associate Professor of Practice, Marketing, IFMR GSB has been recently published with Ivey Publishing.
Titled Grow Out of the Box, the case highlights the entrepreneurial journey of a creative SME and is now part of the global teaching portfolio used in management and business classrooms around the world.
Abhayraj Naik, Visiting Associate Professor of Practice, Environmental Studies, SIAS, recently co-authored an analysis essay with Parul Kumar, PhD candidate, KU Leuven and Deputy Executive Director, EPICO KlimaInnovation titled Endangered Birds, Renewable Energy, and India’s New Constitutional Climate Right, published in the Journal of Environmental Law (Oxford University Press). This essay examines India’s first major climate litigation ruling — the Supreme Court’s 2024 judgment in M.K. Ranjitsinh and Others v. Union of India and Others.
