Aditya Bharadwaj
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, University of Edinburgh, University of Bristol, University of Delhi
0000-0003-1407-8151
About
Aditya Bharadwaj joined the Geneva Graduate Institute as a Research Professor of Anthropology and Sociology in January 2013 and has held the position of full professor of Anthropology and Sociology since 2016. Currently, he serves as the chair of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology and as the Co-director of the Gender Centre at the Geneva Graduate Institute. He completed his doctoral research at the University of Bristol and pursued a post-doctoral fellowship at Cardiff University before joining the University of Edinburgh, where he taught and conducted research for over seven years.
His research expertise and academic interests encompass medical anthropology, the sociology of health and illness, gender and sexuality, research methods, and the cultural and socio-political aspects related to the use of science and technology in reproduction, molecular biology and genetics as well as the globalization of regenerative and stem cell biotechnologies, with emerging implications for global health. Bharadwaj has a distinguished track record in managing large international projects that bring together collaborators, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society partners, government departments, and globally dispersed academic collaborators and interlocutors.
From the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS) funded project that examined Infertility, Childlessness, and Healthcare-Seeking in Resource-Poor Settings in Nepal and India (2018-2019), to partnering with the FAPESP (Sao Paulo Research Foundation) funded project focused on The Emergence of Biotechnologies of Life and Health Care in Brazil and India (2017-19), and contributing as a network member to a significant international initiative funded by the Wellcome Trust on Changing (In)Fertilities (2018-2022), as well as The European Research Council (ERC) funded consolidator grant investigating the Emergence of Stem Cell Biotechnologies in India (2013-2018), Bharadwaj has established an international reputation in the field of medical anthropology and accumulated extensive experience in managing large project teams, budget lines, and globally dispersed field sites.
Since 2013, Bharadwaj has mentored and supervised five PhD students to completion, and each of them is now pursuing successful careers in academia, international development, and policy think tanks. Additionally, seven more PhD students are currently on track to successfully complete their research projects. Bharadwaj has authored and co-authored four books and is currently completing his fifth book manuscript. Furthermore, he has authored several articles in top-tier academic journals and contributed numerous chapters to peer-reviewed edited volumes.
Bharadwaj's items of esteem at symposia and congresses include numerous invited lectures, talks, keynotes and plenaries. He was the Scientific Committee Member of the Swiss Sociological Association Conference at the University of Geneva in 2020 and Programme Chair of the Swiss Anthropological Association Conference at the Geneva Graduate Institute in 2019 as well as the Scientific Committee Member of the SAGS 2023 Conference on “Gender(ed) Labor” at the University of Laussane.
Bharadwaj held the prestigious Paul Lazarsfeld Professorship at the University of Vienna in 2022. He is on the Board of the Lexington Book Series “Crossing Borders in a Global World” since June 2017 and peer reviews for leading international journals and is serving as the Board Member for Frontiers in Sociology, section Medical Sociology since 2018. He has reviewed manuscripts for academic publishers such as Orient Blackswan; NYU Press; Fordham University Press; Oxford University Press; Cambridge University Press; University of California Press. He has also served as the expert reviewer for the EURIAS Fellowship Programme; Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF); Wenner Gren Foundation (2013 – 2015); Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), United Kingdom; The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO); The Marsden Fund Council, New Zealand Government.
Employment
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Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Professor2013 - Present
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University of Edinburgh Senior Lecturer2010 - 2012
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University of Edinburgh Lecturer2005 - 2010
Education
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University of Bristol PhD? - 2001
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University of Delhi Mphil (First Class)? - 1996
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University of Delhi M.A (First Class), Delhi School of Economics? - 1994
Projects & Funding
Projects & funding information is unavailable.
Publications (40)
- Reproducing on an Impaired Planet Save
- Depletions Save
- The shroud stealers Save
- Moment of surprise Save
- Vulnerable truths Save
- Bio-crossing Heterotopia Save
- Intersections: Perspectives on Stem Cell Biotechnologies Save
- On the everyday ethics of stem cell therapies in India Save
- Stem Cell Intersections Save
- Cultivated cure, regenerated affliction Save