Profile

Supriya Pattanayak has her qualifications from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (MA) and the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (MPhil), India and RMIT University, Australia (PhD). She has extensive teaching, research and policy experience and her research interest is in the field of gender and development, sustainable livelihoods, research methodologies, and social work pedagogies in different contexts. She has several publications to her credit. She has worked with NGOs, multilateral and bilateral agencies, federal and state Governments and Universities in India and Australia. She is presently the Vice Chancellor of the Centurion University of Technology and Management (CUTM), Odisha, India. She is an Industry Liaison Person with RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia and also Research Fellow at the St Petersburg State University, Russia.