Dr. Ajeet Kumar Pankaj
Assistant Professor
Social Work & Sociology
ajeet@iiserb.ac.in 
91 755 269 2717#411A, Fourth Floor, AB-4
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- Assistant Professor (Social Work and Sociology), Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IISER Bhopal, July 2024-Present.
- Assistant Professor (Social Work), Department of Social Work, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Regional Campus Manipur, Manipur, September 2017-July 2024
- Ph.D, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai.
- M.Phil, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai.
- MSW, Department of Social Work, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry.
- 2025: PI (with Co-PI Ms. Dinushika M. Yapa Abeywardhana, University of Peradeniya Sri Lanka; Dr. Mohammad Niyaz Ahmad, Swami Vivekananda University, India; Ms. J. N. D. Jayathunga, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka) ‘Climate Change and Rural Health in South Asia: Insights from India and Sri Lanka’, International Social Science Collaboration and Development Grants by Association of Asian Social Science Research Council (AASSREC).
- 2025: PI (with Co-PI Manish K. Jha from TISS, Mumbai) ‘Digital Labour Platforms and Future of Work: A Study of Gig Workers 'Insecurity, Inequality, and Precarity funded by JPN Center of Excellence in Humanities, IIT, Indore.
- 2024: Co-PI/Co-PD in research project joint research project entitled ‘Water Stress, Traditional Practices and Current Solutions to Safe and Accessible Drinking Water in A Drought Prone Region’ Funded by ICSSR, New Delhi, India
- 2023: K2A Mobility subsidy Grant funded by Swissnex in India, Consulate General of Switzerland, Government of Switzerland to be Visiting Faculty at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, February-March 2024
- 2020: Co-PI/Co-PD in research project joint research project entitled “Migrant Workers in Urbanisation in Politically Sensitive Area: A Study in Kashmir & Manipur” funded by ICSSR, New Delhi, India.
- 2017: DAAD Contact-Grant Fellowship for Visiting Research Scholar at the Department of Migration, Gender, and Politics, University of Oldenburg, Germany, March-July 2017
- University Grants Commission - Junior and Senior Research Fellowships (UGC-JRF/SRF) in Social Work (2013-2017)
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| # | Authors | Title | Journals | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ajeet Kumar Pankaj | The development of social group work and the democratization of knowledge: critical insights from India on the legacy of Andrew Malekoff | Social Work with Groups (Taylor & Francis) | 2025 |
| 2 | Ajeet Kumar Pankaj,Dorothee Hölscher,Corey Shdaimah | From the margins to the centre: a call for all voices (Editorial) | Ethics and Social Welfare | 2025 |
| 3 | Ajeet Kumar Pankaj | Book Review: Rethinking Untouchability: The Political Thought of B. R. Ambedkar | Nidan: International Journal for Indian Studies | 2025 |
| 4 | Ajeet Kumar Pankaj,Manish K. Jha,Saima Farhad,Ibrahim Wani | ‘Document’ and North-Indian Labour Migrants: Governing Labour Mobility in Manipur | Journal of Asian and African Studies (Sage) | 2024 |
| 5 | Ajeet Kumar Pankaj,Manish K. Jha | Gig Workers in Precarious Life: The Trajectory of Exploitation, Insecurity, and Resistance | The American Journal of Economics and Sociology (Wiley) | 2024 |
| 6 | Md. Niyaz Ahmad ,Ajeet Kumar Pankaj,Iftekhar Alam | Dr. Ambedkar’s Idea of Human Rights and its Scope of Teaching in Social Work Education: From Text to Context | Social Work Education (Taylor and Francis) | 2024 |
| 7 | Ajeet Kumar Pankaj | Dalit Autobiographies in Pursuit of Inclusion: Role of Subaltern Literature in the Pedagogy of Social Work' | Indian Journal of Social Work | 2024 |
| 8 | Manish K. Jha,Ajeet Kumar Pankaj,Iftekhar Alam | Pravasiyon ke liye 'Palayan' Ek Vikalap: Palayan ki Prakriya mein Virodhabhash aur Prakeshappath | Samajik Vimarsh (Sage) | 2023 |
| 9 | Ajeet Kumar Pankaj,Iftekhar Kumar Alam,Aazad Sohail | Informal Social Group and Lok Sangharsh Samiti (LSS): Informal Collaboration of Dalits for Resistance and ‘Land Rights’ | Social Work with Groups (Taylor & Francis) | 2023 |
| 10 | Manish K. Jha,Ajeet Kumar Pankaj | The Making of New Dalit Middle Class: Struggle, Aspirations, and Changing Lifestyle in Navi Mumbai | Journal of Asian and African Studies (Sage) | 2023 |
| 11 | Abhimanyu Kumar Datta,Ajeet Kumar Pankaj | Scope Of Multilingual Education, Teaching, And Training: Perspective Of Post-Graduate Social Work Students In India | Nordic Social Work Research (Taylor & Francis) | 2023 |
| 12 | Ajeet Kumar Pankaj,Lalitha Kumar B | Dalit Women in Cinema: A Narrative of Gender and Caste | The American Journal of Economics and Sociology (Wiley) | 2022 |
| 13 | Shiv Kumar Yadav,Ajeet Kumar Pankaj | Everyday Ethical Challenges for Indian Community Development Practitioners in COVID-19 Pandemic | Community Development Journal (Oxford University Press) | 2022 |
| 14 | Manish K. Jha,Ajeet Kumar Pankaj | Neoliberal Governmentality and Informal Workers: Policy and Community Work in India | International Journal of Community and Social Development (Sage) | 2021 |
| 15 | Ajeet Kumar Pankaj | ‘Caste’ amid Aspiration and Opportunity: Everyday Aspiration and Struggle of Dalits to Gain Access of Education | The American Journal of Economics and Sociology (Wiley) | 2021 |
| 16 | Ajeet Kumar Pankaj | The Panchshil Buddha Vihar Group: Dalit Migrant Life and Group Solidarity in Pandemic | Social Work with Groups (Taylor & Francis) | 2020 |
| 17 | Ajeet Kumar Pankaj | Politics of Symbols and Changing Religious Practices: Counter-Hegemonic Assertion of Dalit Migrants in Mumbai | Journal of Migration Affairs | 2019 |
| 18 | Ajeet Kumar Pankaj | Caste and Discrimination in Welfare: Exclusion of Dalits in Uttar Pradesh. | Contemporary Voice of Dalit (Sage) | 2019 |
| 19 | Ajeet Kumar Pankaj | Land, Labour and Market: Exclusion of Dalits in Uttar Pradesh | Contemporary Voice of Dalit (Sage) | 2016 |
| 20 | Ajeet Kumar Pankaj | Food Insecurity: Persistence of Hunger among Dalits in eastern Uttar Pradesh | Journal of Social and Economic Studies | 2015 |
| Authors | Editors | Title | Publisher | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.K. Rinchanpam Ajeet Kumar Pankaj |
Abhimanyu Datta Bipin Jojo |
Labour Migrant's Children and COVID-19: Children on the 'Move' | Routledge | 2024 |
| Ajeet Kumar Pankaj Abhimanyu Datta |
I.S. Rajan |
International Refugee Law and the Indian State: Contested Law and Refugee Life between 'Two States' | Routledge | 2022 |
| Manish K. Jha Ajeet Kumar Pankaj |
Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay Paula Banerjee Ranabir Samaddar |
Insecurity and Fear Travel as Labour Travels in The Time of Pandemic | Routledge | 2020 |
| Authors | Editors | Title | Publisher | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ajeet Kumar Pankaj |
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Dalit Migrants: Assertion, Emancipation, and Social Change | Springer | 2023 |