Biography & Introduce

Dr. Leena Pujari is a feminist sociologist and currently heads the Department of Sociology at K C College. Her research interests include Development studies, Legal Studies and Gender Studies, in particular issues of feminist pedagogy, feminist resistance and feminist jurisprudence. She is on the Advisory Group of a transnational research project of the University of Westminster UK on ‘Decolonising Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Higher Education: Innovations in Theory, Policy and Practice’. She is also a Senior Visiting Fellow (honorary) at the leading policy think tank IMPRI, New Delhi. She is an avid researcher and has researched on tribal women in Odisha, child rights in Mumbai and New Zealand and led a team of researchers’ on a UNFPA funded consultative and collaborative research project with Population First on major media houses in Mumbai and their gender sensitive components.