Dipika Das has submitted PhD at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. She is a recipient of the John Allwright Fellowship, Australian Center of International Agriculture Research (ACIAR), Australia Awards. Her previous qualification includes Master’s degree in Gender and Development Studies from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand and has enhanced her gender-expertise through a course from Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan. She has also accomplished an Executive Leadership program at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia.
Dipika has almost a decade of research experience. She worked on gender challenges of smallholder farmers in the Eastern Gangetic plains of Nepal and India as part of the social science research team at the International Water Management Institute-Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). Her PhD research focuses on examining the factors impacting the farm bargaining intentions of the smallholder women farmers in the Eastern Gangetic Plains. Her expertise lies in qualitative research methodologies, the use of NVivo software, and mixed methods research. Dipika’s research interest focuses on the empowerment of women farmers in the context of feminized agriculture. She wants to learn more about how women smallholder farmers deal with socio-cultural and gendered difficulties, as well as how to establish an environment that supports their resilience.
She is currently a Post-Doctoral Researcher at SIAS and coordinates a participatory action research project “Co-producing a shock resilient business ecosystem for women-led enterprises in Nepal” CREW 2021-2023 funded by IDRC. The project is an amalgamation of initiatives, most of which involve various ways of empowering and supporting women-led enterprises in communities to remain resilient during and post-shock events.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Das, D., Wiesner, R., Sugden, F, Maraseni, TN. 2022. (forthcoming) The role of subjective norms in the women smallholder farmers farm bargaining intentions in the Eastern Gangetic Plains. (Journal of Agrarian Change)
- Das, D., 2021. Gendered Impact of COVID-19 in Academic Sector, vol 1, Global Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (GIIS) Chapter 6 pp.28-31, GIIS Report : A Snapshot of COVID-19 in Nepal
- Leder, S., Shrestha, G. and Das, D., 2019. Transformative engagements with gender relations in agriculture and water governance. Public Policy, 5(1), pp.128-158.
- E Schmidt, F Sugden, M Scobie, M Mainuddin, S Leder, R Mishra, B Thapa, R Bastakoti, S da Silva, M Raut, A Kumar, P deb Kanugoe, R Sarkar, B Mitra, S Mitra, R Chatterjee, S Mali, A Kumar, A Rahman, T Bhutia, D Das, R Kumar, R Karki, B Paudel, D Ray, S Majumdar, M Ghosh, M Maniruzzaman, M M Alam, M T Islam, M.J Kabir, S Shrestha 2019. Improving water use for dry season agriculture by marginal and tenant farmers in the Eastern Gangetic Plains. Canberra : Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research. https://www.aciar.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-05/Final-report-LWR-2012-079.pdf
- Leder, S. ; Das, D.; Reckers, A.; Karki, E. 2016. Participatory Gender Training for Community groups 2016,. Participatory gender training for community groups. Colombo, Sri Lanka : CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). 50p. https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/77585
- Das, D. 2013. Influence of gender dynamics on women’s nutrition in Central Terai region of Nepal 2012/13, Master Thesis for Gender and development studies at AIT, Thailand.
- Basnet, S., Das, D. 2011 Post-conflict Psychosocial analysis of widow women in Nepal, Research funded by SNV Nepal.
- Das, D. 2008. Socio-economic status of Rickshaw Pullers: A Case study of Dhangadi Municipality, in 2010 as a Master of Arts Sociology thesis.
- Karki, K., Dhakal, P., Das, D. 2008 Assessment of Burden of Disease in Nepal, funded by Nepal Government at Nepal Health Research Council, Ministry of Health and Population, Nepal.
