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Bhaswati Das

Bhaswati Das
Bhaswati Das
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for the Study of Regional Development,
School of Social Sciences
Room No
330 SSS I
Off. Phone
011-26704101
Email
bhaswati@mail.jnu.ac.in, bhaswati2004@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in/Faculty/bhaswati/cv.pdf
Qualifications

Ph. D. 1998; M.Phil 1991; MA 1989; BSc. Honours 1987

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Population Issues including urbanization and migration; maternal and child health; reproductive health; fertility, gender issues in development

Experience
  1. 2012 onwards working as Associate Professor (Population Studies), Jawaharlal Nehru University.
  2. 2000 – 2004 May worked as Lecturer in Geography, Rabindra Satabarshiki College, Ghatal, W.Midnapur, W. B.
Awards & Honours

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International Collaboration/Consultancy
  1. Mapping sex ratio in India and China: A collaborative study with Minnesota Population Centre (2018)
  2. Medicine Use among Senior Citizens in Vasant Kunj, New Delhi-India: A Project Report (Sept.2009) for The World Health Organisation New Delhi
  3. Well-Being of Children and Women-Analysis of the Results of District Level Data, UNICEF, (2007)
Best Peer Reviewed Publications
  • Das Bhaswati (2023). Return Migrants and Economic Re-integration in Rural West Bengal, India, Migration Letters March 2023 Volume: 20, No: 2, pp. 173 – 188 (with Pranamita Banerjee).
  • Das Bhaswati (2023). Prevalence of anemia among reproductive women in different social group in India: Cross-sectional study using nationally representative data. PLOS ONE 18(2): e0281015. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281015
  • Das Bhaswati (2021). Regional Disparity in Patterns of Out-migration from West Bengal: Evidences from Census Data in Demography India Vol. 50, No. 2 (2021), pp. 131-151 (with Pranamita Banerjee).
  • Das, Bhaswati (2019). Domestic Remittances in Handbook of Internal Migration in India jointly with Rajni Singh (eds) S. Irudaya Rajan and Sumeetha M., Sage Publications.
  • Das, Bhaswati (2018). Migration in Response to Environmental Change: A Risk Perception Study from Sundarban Biosphere Reserve jointly with Avijit Mistri in eds. S. Irudaya Rajan and R.B.Bhagat, Climate Change, Vulnerability and Migration, Routledge India
  • Das, Bhaswati (2009). Gender Issues in Development edited jointly with Vimal Khawas, Rawat Publication, Jaipur
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
  • Navigating precarity: Health challenges faced by the transwomen population in Kolkata during the COVID-19 pandemic with Ankita Chakrabarti in Lakshmi Sivaramakrishnan, Bharat Dahiya, Madhuri Sharma, Saswati Mookherjee, Ranita Karmakar (eds). Urban Health: A Global Perspective (2024). Elsevier.
  • Modern and Traditional Contraception Among Indian Women with Aditi Kundu and Angad Singh in Christophe Z. Guilmoto (ed.) Atlas of Gender and Health Inequalities in India : Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development (2024). Vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47847-5_1
  • Death Registration Coverage 2019-2021, India. Bulletin of World Health Organisation. 2023 Feb 1;101(2):102-110. doi: 10.2471/BLT.22.288889. Epub 2022 Nov 25. PMID: 36733620;PMCID:  PMC9874366.  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9874366/
  • Recognition, citizenship and rights: the dilemma of India’s gender non-conforming communities in the light of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act. Journal of Gender Studies (2024), DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2023.2246123. p1-13
  • Environmental Change, Livelihood Issues and Migration: Sunderban Biosphere Reserve, India (2020). Jointly authored with Avijit Mistri. Springer Nature PTE, Singapore.
  • Population, Fertility and Family Planning: A Study on Contraceptive Method Mix in Asian Countries (2019). Jointly authored with Aditi Kundu. Rawat Publications, Jaipur.