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Bejoy K Thomas

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, The University of British Columbia, Tilburg University, University of Waterloo

ORCID iD 0000-0002-5188-0189
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Dr Bejoy K Thomas is an interdisciplinary social scientist interested in problem driven research on environment and development. He is currently an Associate Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune (IISER Pune).

Originally trained in Economics, he received a PhD in Development Studies (2009) from Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He was a Fellow at ATREE, Bangalore, India, between 2008 and 2019. He has been a Royal Bank of Canada Visiting Fellow at the Water Institute, University of Waterloo, Canada (2016) and a Visiting Fellow at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, The University of British Columbia, Canada (2017).

His current research is in two broad but interrelated areas, (a) water management, with particular focus on adaptation, access and use in agricultural and domestic sectors, and (b) environmental sustainability and development, including normative implications of climate action. He has a long standing interest in theoretical and empirical work on development and poverty, specifically participatory development and metrics used for measuring poverty and development.

Employment

  • Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune Associate Professor
    2019 - Present
  • The University of British Columbia Visiting Fellow
    2017 - 2017
  • University of Waterloo Visiting Fellow
    2016 - 2016
  • Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment Fellow
    2008 - 2019

Education

  • Tilburg University PhD
    2003 - 2007

Projects & Funding

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Publications (25)