Janki Andharia
TISS, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, University of East Anglia
0000-0003-0722-531X
About
Ms. Janki Andharia, Phd, has been a Senior Professor with the Centre for Disasters and Development, Jamsetji Tata School of Disaster Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. She has now retired. She was the Dean of the School until 2022. She has over 40 years of experience in the field of community organization and social development. Her areas of work focus on gender issues, environmental concerns, democratic governance, addressing diverse forms of marginalization and vulnerability. At the World Education Congress Global Awards for Excellence in Education, Leadership and Teaching on 23rd July 2015 held in Mumbai, Prof. Andharia received an award for her outstanding contribution to education.
She has been involved in national and state-level policy-making work and has had a long association with grassroots organisations. She was awarded the Association of Commonwealth Universities Scholarship to pursue her Ph.D from School of Environment Sciences, University of East Anglia U.K. in the area of Gender, Development and Environment.
Until 2006, she was Head, the Department of Urban and Rural Community Development before moving on as Chairperson of the newly created Centre for Disaster Management. She has provided leadership in the area of Disaster Management within TISS, introducing a full-fledged Master's in the subject in 2007. The programme is located within the broad framework of social and environmental justice. Professor Andharia serves on several of the Working Groups and Committees of the National Disaster Management Authority of India and on Boards of several organizations. In 2014 she was invited to the Rockefeller Foundation's Residency programme at the Bellagio Centre, in Italy. In the same year, Professor Andharia was the recipient of the “Best Professor in Disaster Management Award”, instituted by the National Education Leadership Awards, Lokmat, Mumbai. This was in recognition of the critical leadership she provided to the establishment of a multidisciplinary Centre for Disaster Management
Over the years Professor Andharia has conducted research, training and consultancy assignments for governments, industry and NGOs and international agencies. She has travelled abroad to several countries to deliver special lectures, establish institutional linkages with Universities and also on research collaborations. She has published extensively and is now the series editor for Springer's new book series on Disaster Studies and Management. She is also invited to the Steering Committee of ACU's Commonwealth Climate Resilience Network. Professor Andharia serves on the Editorial Boards of several journals.
Employment
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TISS Dean2017 - 2022
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Tata Institute of Social Sciences Senior Professor2015 - 2025
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Tata Institute of Social Sciences Centre Chair2006 - 2015
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Tata Institute of Social Sciences Head2001 - 2006
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Tata Institute of Social Sciences Reader and Head1995 - 2001
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Tata Institute of Social Sciences Lecturer1985 - 1995
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Tata Institute of Social Sciences Project Co-ordinator, Udhyam1983 - 1984
Education
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University of East Anglia PhD1990 - 1993
Projects & Funding
Projects & funding information is unavailable.
Publications (23)
- Building Bridges over Troubled Waters: Towards Risk-Informed Transboundary Water Governance Save
- Transforming Post Disaster Recovery: Participatory Mechanisms for Community Feedback and Responding to Real-time Data Needs with a focus on persons with Disability Save
- Vulnerability: its discursive and material nature Save
- Disaster Management: Institutionalising Risk-Informed Planning Save
- Cascading Vulnerabilities: Food Insecurity among women in disaster -prone areas in India in Andharia J. (ed) Disaster Studies: Exploring Intersectionalities in Disaster Discourse, Springer Nature, Singapore Save
- A Web of Vulnerabilities: Eco-fragility, poor livelihoods and cyclones in Sundarban Region, India Save
- Blurred Boundaries, shared practices: Disaster studies and disaster management as an emerging discipline and a field of practice Save
- Disaster Studies: Exploring Intersectionalities in Disaster Discourse Save
- One size fits all? Polemics of Disaster Management from the perspective of post Tsunami experiences of the Nicobar Islanders Save
- Thinking about Disasters: A call for intersectionality and transdisciplinary in disaster studies” Save