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Dr Rituparna Bhattacharyya SFHEA, FRGS

Routledge, Taylor and Francis, United Kingdom, University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

ORCID iD 0000-0002-4290-6172
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Dr Rituparna Bhattacharyya is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam, India; a Visiting Professor at the University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya, India; Series Editor: Gender and Violence, Routledge, Taylor & Francis, United Kingdom; Research Consultant and Editor-in-Chief, Journal Space and Culture, India, who gained her PhD from the University of Newcastle, UK in July 2009 and Senior Fellow status from Advance HE, United Kingdom in 2021. Her PhD was funded jointly by Overseas Research Students Awards (ORSA), Department of Employment and Learning, UK and Newcastle University Overseas Research Scholarship (NUORS). On 15 April 2025, she became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers).
Rituparna works on transnational and interdisciplinary projects that span the disciplinary boundaries of sociology, human geography, social work, and women’s studies, but they fall under the broad spectrum of gender, sexuality, violence, and development. She applies a collage of literature linked to feminism, postcolonialism, development and intersectionality, deploying qualitative methods in triangulation with a questionnaire survey and quantitative techniques (including GIS).
Rituparna has a strong track record of original, high-quality, internationally excellent research publications in Routledge, Taylor and Francis, Sage, Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, Elsevier, and Wiley. Indeed, she has over 70 publications, many of which are published in high-quality outlets of international repute, such as Journal Gender, Place and Culture (Routledge); Geojournal (Springer); Journal Ethics and Social Welfare (Routledge); Asian Social Work and Policy Review (Wiley). Her latest publications are:
1. Bhattacharyya, R. (2024). Genocides and Xenophobia in South Asia and Beyond: A Transdisciplinary Perspective on Known, Lesser-known and Unknown Crime of Crimes. New York and London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis. DOI: 10.4324/9781003205470.
2. Bhattacharyya, R. (2023). North East India Through the Ages: A Transdisciplinary Perspective on Prehistory, History, and Oral History. London and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis. DOI: 10.4324/9781003157816
3. Anand, S., Das, M., Bhattacharyya, R., and Singh, RB. (2023). Sustainable Development Goals in Northeast India: Challenges and Achievements. International Geographical Union (IGU) Series: Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences, Springer Nature https://link.springer.com/book/9789811964770
4. Pulla, V., Bhattacharyya, R., & Bhatt Sanjai (2020). Discrimination, Challenge, and Response: People of North East India, London: Palgrave Macmillan, DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-46251-2. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-46251-2
5. Das, T., Bhattacharyya, R., Alam, F., and Parvin, A. (2020). In-depth Semi- structured Interviewing: Researching Domestic Violence as a Public Health Issue in Bangladesh, SAGE Research Methods Cases Medicine & Health, Disciplines: Public Health, Online ISBN: 9781529719840, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529719840
6.Das, T.K., Bhattacharyya, R. & Sarma, P.K. (2022). Revisiting geographies of nationalism and national identity in Bangladesh. GeoJournal 87, 1099–1120. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-020-10305-1 (Springer)
She is recognised for her expertise in Gender and Sexuality and serves as an anonymous Journal Reviewer of 27 high-quality peer-reviewed journals.
Findings of her on-going research on India’s Missing Children featured in the front page of the Danish Newspaper, Christian Daily/Kristeligt Dagblad on 03 Oct 2019 entitled Hvert år forsvinder hundredtusinder af børn. Mange findes aldrig igen. On 16 Oct 2019, she was interviewed by BBC (South Asia) on the same project.
On 24 October 2020, I was interviewed by a scholar of Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA on my project #Me too movement.
Rituparna received New and Emergent Scholar award in 2011, Journal Gender, Place and Culture, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group for her contributions to gender and sexuality in South Asia. She was awarded Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing in 2017, Journal World Development (Elsevier).
In Elsevier's e Library Social Science Research Network (SSRN)´, which is a repository of 947,230 research papers from 498,283 researchers in more than 50 disciplines across the globe.
Earlier in 1994, Rituparna was the recipient of the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Award for standing First Class First in Geography (Honours) from Gauhati University. She also received a National Scholarship from the Government of India to pursue her Master's in Geography at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, from where she stood First
Class First (in MA) in Geography.

Employment

  • Routledge, Taylor and Francis, United Kingdom Series Editor, Gender and Violence
    2024 - Present
  • University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya Visiting Professor
    2023 - Present
  • Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Adjunct Professor
    2022 - Present
  • Alliance for Community Capacity Building in North East India Research Consultant &Editor-in-Chief
    2009 - Present

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Publications (106)