Sayendri Panchadhyayi

About

Sayendri Panchadhyayi is a sociologist, researcher and author, currently working as an Assistant Professor in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, RV University, Bangalore. She holds an honorary appointment as an Associate at the Centre for Care, attached to the University of Sheffield and an invited member in its International Partnerships Working Group. Her research lies at the intersections of critical gerontology, medical anthropology, sociology of care and life course, death and bereavement, and feminist STS.

Employment

• RV University Assistant Professor & Program Head
  2024 - Present
• RV University Assistant Professor
  2024 - Present
• National Law School of India University Visiting faculty
  2023 - Present
• University of Sheffield Associate
  2023 - Present
• Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Research Fellow
  2023 - 2023
• Rabindra Bharati University Guest Faculty
  2022 - 2022
• Scottish Church College Guest Faculty
  2021 - 2022
• Lady Brabourne College Invited Lecturer
  2019 - 2021
• Indira Gandhi National Open University Academic Counsellor
  2019 - 2021
• Muralidhar Girls' College Guest Lecturer
  2018 - 2020
• Ashutosh College Guest Lecturer
  2018 - 2018

Education

• The University of Sheffield International Visiting PGR
  2021 - 2021
• University of Hyderabad M.Phil
  2016 - 2018
• University of Hyderabad M.A.
  2014 - 2016
• St. Xavier's College B.A.
  2011 - 2014

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (13)

• Ageing Widows in the Devotional Geography of Rural West Bengal
  Society 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s12115-024-01026-z
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• Ayah-intervened ageing and advocacy for a “knowledge from below” for old-age care in India
  2025 DOI: 10.4337/9781803921150.00014
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• Ayahs at the deathbed re-visioning elder care: bereavement support and anchorage for in-home dying older adults in urban India
  Mortality 2025 DOI: 10.1080/13576275.2025.2450224
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• Review “Care and the Pluriverse: Rethinking Global Ethics” by Maggie FitzGerald
  En-Gender 2024
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• Care and Support Rights after Neoliberalism: Balancing Competing Claims through Policy and Law by Yvette Maker (2022)
  International Journal of Care and Caring 2024 DOI: 10.1332/23978821y2024d000000032
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• Book review - Care Poverty: When Older People’s Needs Remain Unmet by Teppo Kröger
  Anthropology & Aging 2024 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/aa.2024.512
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• Technologized Intimacies and Posthuman Kinship Across the Life Course
  Anthropology and Aging 2024 DOI: 10.5195/aa.2024.553
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• The Dismantled Clock: Chronicling Parietal Osteosarcoma and Waiting for Healing
  The Polyphony 2023
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• The Tedium of Chronic Waiting: Delay, Temporality and Gender in Access to Healthcare in India
  The Polyphony 2023
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• Cartographies of Caring: Time, Temporality and Caring in Pandemic
  2022 DOI: 10.3224/84742541
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• Care, Carers and Covid-19: Reflections on Old Age Care in India
  The Polyphony 2021
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• Gender, Widowhood and Female Solidarity: A Study on Female Friendships of Later-life widows
  Research on Ageing and Social Policy 2021 DOI: 10.4471/rasp.2020.5053
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• The Gender Question in Geriatric Care: Gender, Ageing and Caring Networks
  Women in the Changing World: Issues & Challenges 2020
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