Dr. Vaishali. B. Katke graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Kuvempu University, following which she completed her post-graduation in ‘Social Work, Community Organization and Development Practice’ at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
During her internship, she was exposed to working with the ‘rights to safety and dignified living of homeless social groups’. She has exposure to working with marginalized communities, both in the urban and rural clusters. She has worked on different aspects of urban issues of housing, homelessness, and governance in urban space. She has research experience with the landless agriculture labourers, and community, over identity, caste, class, and gender expressions. Accordingly, her research and writing cover several subfields within Social Work, Sociology, and Social Anthropology.
She earned her doctoral research degree in Sociology by exploring dimensions of caste as an ‘Identity paradigm’ with a cultural spectrum over caste, class, social livelihood, and gendered lens in the multi-dimensionality of spatial experience.
She is passionate about cultures, people’s rights, identity-based interdisciplinary approaches, and social justice.