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Dr. Sayendri Panchadhyayi

Visiting Faculty

Teaching

Courses

Nov 2023

Education

  • B.A. in Sociology, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata
  • M.A. in Sociology, University of Hyderabad
  • MPhil in Sociology, University of Hyderabad
  • Ph.D. in Sociology, Presidency University, Kolkata.

Profile

Sayendri Panchadhyayi is an interdisciplinary sociologist and her research dwells on questions of care, lifecourse, ageing, temporality, and bereavement. She has previously taught at Lady Brabourne College, Scottish Church College, Muralidhar Girls’ College, Indira Gandhi National Open University and Rabindra Bharati University.

She has been an International Visiting Scholar to the Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield (February 2021 – July 2021). In 2021, she was invited to join the Birkbeck Institute of Social Research and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s working research group on ‘Age, Care and the Caring Crisis’, which has members in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia. Her research interests include –  Critical gerontology, Medical anthropology, Sociology of care, Sociology of time and space, Death studies and Public policy. Her doctoral thesis was on The ‘Ayah’ and the Elderly: Illness, Nursing and Intimate Labour in Kolkata’s Domestic Spaces.

In 2023, she was inducted as an Associate at the Centre for Care, a collaboration between the Universities of Sheffield, Birmingham, Kent and Oxford, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the Office for National Statistics, and three leading charities: Carers UK, the National Children’s Bureau and the Social Care Institute for Excellence.

Research Interests

  • Critical gerontology
  • Medical anthropology
  • Sociology of care
  • Sociology of time and space
  • Death studies
  • Public policy

Publications