Sayendri teaches Sociology at the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She has a B.A. (hons.), M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Sociology. She is appointed as an Associate at the Centre for Care, housed within the University of Sheffield, UK. Post-PhD, she was a Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and worked on ‘Healthcare inequalities in India: Mapping actors, logics and care practices’. She was an International Visiting Scholar in the Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield.
She has a wide experience of teaching in both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Scottish Church College, Lady Brabourne College, Muralidhar Girls’ College, IGNOU, Presidency University, Rabindra Bharati University and National Law School of India University. Based on her experience of teaching across resource-settings she harnesses a range of methods like scaffolding, visual aids, multi-sensorial learning, mobile methods, learning curve track and supervised learning, peer feedback, student-centred active learning, and blended learning for long-term learning outcome.
She is the co-founder of Sabr – a people’s collaborative that aims to bridge the gap between academia and the public on questions of care. She is an editorial member of En-Gender, an independent early-career scholar-led academic platform, and an invited member to EASA-AGENET. Beside these, she has delivered scholarly talks at Manipal Academy of Higher Education, The Ayah and Amah International Research Network (housed within LSE), Presidency University, Centre for Care, Global South Hub – CSSR, George Mason University, VIT-AP, Covid in the House of Old Exhibit organized by the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, and the Montreal History Group, and Jamshedpur Workers’ College, Kolhan University. She will be delivering a special lecture for the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan on her fieldwork journey at the peak of Covid-19.
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