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Prof. Lavanya Suresh

Associate Professor,
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Decentralization, Political ecology, Public Administration
Cabin no. K108
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Hyderabad Campus
Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal
Dist.-Medchal-500 078
Telangana, India

Research Projects

Role and Name of the project

Funding agency

Sanctioned

Date of completion

Amount in Rs.

Duration

PI

Mapping Institutions, Rules, and Norms Defining Commons

Foundation for Ecological Security (FES)

 

July 2024

June 2025

Rs. 24,50,000

1 year

PI

Remote sensing enabled public policy analysis of air-pollutants in peri-urban environments: An Indo- Australian case study – (RESPIRE)

Asian Smart Cities Research and Innovation Network (ASCRIN) La Trobe University

March 2021

March 2026

Rs. 14,88,000

5 years

Co-I

Team III: Waste-to-Energy: Technology Integration for production of clean energy from organic waste

DST (PURSE 2020 program)

TPN-57086

February 2021

February 2025

Rs. 26.0 Crores

4 years

Project Partner-

Institutional Changes for Rural Innovation: The Civic Space and the State in India, the 1980s through 2010s

Ford Foundation

September 2020

(Completed)

May 2023

Rs. 68,40,000

(US $ 95,000)

2 Years

Principal Investigator (PI)-

 

Alternative ways of understanding ecological conservation practices to enable justice for all

NALSAR, Hyderabad

September 2018

(Completed)

June 2019

Rs. 2,95,000

8 months

Principal Investigator (PI)-

 

Resistance to the Western Ghats Conservation and Undercurrents:  A study of the people’s protest and the role of the local bodies in Idukki, Kerala

Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Kerala

September 2018

(Completed)

March 2020

 

Rs. 3,15,000

16 months

Principal Investigator (PI)-

 

Political Ecology of South India

 

Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research and Academics (OPERA)

August 2017

(Completed)

August 2022

Rs. 22,80,000

5 years

Principal Investigator (PI)-

 

Alternative ecological ways of being

Research Initiation Grant

August 2018

(Completed)

August 2020

Rs. 2,00,000

2 years