Dr. Dilip Diwakar G

Associate Professor

Dr. Dilip Diwakar G has done his M.Phil and Ph.D in Public Health from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and MSW for Loyola College, Chennai. His research areas are food security, Child nutrition and health, urban poor, and evaluation of government programmes. His major interest it to understand issues of marginalization and its interaction with social, economic, political and cultural spheres. He has more than 18 years of experience in teaching, research and development sector. Currently he is working as Associate Professor, School of Social Work, IGNOU. Before that he was with Central University of Kerala for 7 years and Indian Institute of Dalit Studies (IIDS) for five years as Assistant Professor. He also worked for six years in the National and International development organizations like ActionAid, Aide-et-Action, Centre for Equity Studies. He has Co-authored a book titled “Caste, Discrimination and Exclusion in Modern India”, SAGE 2015. He has published more than 30 research articles in both national, international peer-reviewed journals and chapters in books. He had completed 12 research projects for government and various funding organizations. He has presented papers and also been as a resource person for more than 50 national and international seminar and workshops. Dr. Dilip Diwakar G is the coordinator for the Ph.D Programme at IGNOU.
 

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