research begins where the data ends: in the stories of people, the memory of rivers, and the silence after a disaster. explore some of these research projects that I am a part of.
Exploring SciComm is an initiative that examines how science communication is taught, practiced, and experienced in India. Through workshops, discussions, and experimental media projects, it creates space for students and practitioners to critically engage with storytelling, ethics, audience, and representation — rethinking how science is communicated across diverse contexts and communities.
Project PI: Dr. Shalini Sharma
Go to the Exploring SciComm project website here.
Water is at the very heart of our being, our society, our systems. This omnipresence makes it the heart of social divide and injustice. As the water crisis grows, so will the inequalities. Conflicts and climate change have and will only further intensify these challenges.
The AQUAMUSE project led by Prof. Sara Ahmed and Dr. Shalini Sharma aims to Facilitate Just and Sustainable Water Futures through Water Museums, Digital Media, and the Arts.
Project PI: Dr. Shalini Sharma
Go to the Water Dialogues project website here.
The CARE Project (Communicating Action and Resilience for Environmental Health in India) works at the intersection of environment, health, and community. It links scientific evidence with lived experience to strengthen environmental health literacy, build resilience in vulnerable regions, and support communicators and communities in interpreting, documenting, and acting on climate-health challenges.
Project PI: Dr. Shalini Sharma
Go to the CARE project website here.
Human-elephant conflict takes various forms such as property damage, crop depredation, and human casualties. Elephant mortalities through electrocutions, railway collisions, and poaching also take place less frequently. Together, these negative interactions emerge as a serious threat to both rural development and the endangered megafauna.
This project tool, researched in Northern Bengal, looks at the multiple paradoxes of interaction which define the Human-Elephant conflict in the region.
Go to the interactive tool for Paradox of Interactions project here.
