Organizing Secretary, 45th All India Sociological Conference, 2019, the largest Sociological conference in South Asia. All India Sociological Society is the second biggest professional body of Sociologists in the world.
Programme Coordinator, Golden Jubilee Celebrations, Department of Sociology, University of Kerala
Member, Selection Committee, Research Officer, Vimukti Project, Excise Department, Govt. of Kerala
Examiner, Confidential Assignments at UPSC Delhi and PSCs in Kerala and Telengana
Member, Research Advisory Committee, Kerala Institute for Research, Training and Development Studies of
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (KIRTADS), Kozhikode
Delegate and participant in Ethnografilm festival, Paris, France organized by The International Social Science
Council (ISSC) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), from April 17-20, 2013 held at Cine 13
Theatre. As the Director and producer of the Ethnographic film (academic movie) titled “Promised Land and the
Broken Promises”, the movie was screened and discussed in the festival. From 39 countries, 89 films were
screened in the festival
Member, Study on Womens issues. Department of Women and Child Development, Govt. of Kerala
Member, Editorial Board, Sociological Bulletin, April 2022 -
Editor, Member, the pioneering reference cum text book on Kerala, titled Introduction to Kerala Studies,
published by International Institute for Scientific and Academic Collaboration (IISAC), New Jersey, USA
Editor, Kerala Sociologist, Peer reviewed journal of the Kerala Sociological Society 2011-2019
India Coordinator and Principle Investigator, World Science Project, Louisiana State University, USA under NSF
grant, Since 2002
Faculty Member, UGC- HRDC Centres in many South India Universities
Faculty, Semester India Programme (SIP) in the University of Kerala for the students from US. Since 2014
Associate Editor, Kerala Sociologist, peer reviewed journal of the Kerala Sociological Society, since 2011
Team Member, video ethnographic study on the role of science and educational institutions in the post election
violence in Kenya, World Science Project study supported by NSF, 2009
Subject Expert UPSC, Govt. of India
Subject Expert in Sociology
Chairman/Examiner, PhD Viva Voce, Various universities in Kerala & outside Kerala
Doctoral Committee, Sociology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala
Viva Voce, MPhil, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala
Doctoral Committee, Dept. of Humanities, Indian Institute of Space Science Technology (IIST), Valiyamala,
Thiruvananthapuram
Research Committee, Dept. of Humanities, Indian Institute of Space Science Technology (IIST), Valiyamala,
Thiruvananthapuram
Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
Guru Nanak Dev University, Amirtsar, Panjab
Gandhigram Rural Institute - Deemed to be University, Tamil Nadu
Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
Sree Sankaracharya Sanskrit University, Kalady
Andhra University, Andhra Pradesh
Goa University, Goa
Thunchathezhuthachan Malayalam University, Tirur
University of Kannur, Thavakkara, Kannur
CMS College (Autonomous), Kottayam, Kerala
Mar Athnasius College (Autonomous), Kothamangalam, Kerala
Selection Board the Kerala Public Service Commission (KPSC), Thiruvananthapuram
Selection Board, Akshaya E-Literacy Programme, Govt. of Kerala Undertaking
Associate Editor, Kerala Sociologist, Peer Reviewed Journal, Kerala Sociological Society, since 2010 -2019
Peer Reviewer
Research Projects, National Science Foundation, USA;
Member, SFCI Committee 2023-24 (Shastri Faculty Collaboration and Internationalization Project), Shastri
Indo-Canadian Institute, Canada
International journals such as Mass Media and Society, Science, Technology & Society, Mind and Society,
Agriculture and Environmental Ethics, Asian Women, Human Arenas, Sociological Bulletin, American Journal of
Cultural Sociology and Science, Technology and Human Values,
Visiting Faculty, Academic Staff College under UGC, Kerala University, Kariavattom, Trivandrum, Kerala
2003-2010
Adjunct Faculty, IISER (Indian Institute for Science Education and Research), Trivandrum, Kerala
Consultant
Video on Gender Awareness for Adolescent Girls, by Kerala State Women’s Development Corporation Ltd., A
Government of Kerala Undertaking
Urban Slum Survey, Kudumbashree, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty, GoI under the scheme of Urban
Statistics for HR and Assessment (USHA)
Modelling Post Graduate Diploma Programme by the Kerala Youth Welfare Board
Coordinator, Faculty Research Seminar, Loyola College of Social Sciences, Trivandrum, since December,
2005-2008
International Consultant, providing Technical Assistance for Curriculum Development, Department of Sociology,
as part of Improving Relevance and Quality of Undergraduate Education (IRQUE) in Peradeniya University, Ministry
of Education, Sri Lanka, 2009
Visiting Scholar, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, Spring 2008 (Jan.-May)
Member, Editorial Board, Loyola Journal of Social Sciences, Trivandrum, Kerala, India. 2000-2007
Delegate, for the International conference on the “Past, Present and Future of Research in the Information
Society” jointly organized by the Society for Social Studies of Science and World Science Project” a side event
of the Phase II of the World Summit on Information Society, organized in Tunis, Tunisia from November 12-15,
2005; and Organizer of the Special Kerala Session in this conference.
Major Administrative Assignments
Head, Department of Sociology, University of Kerala
Member, Academic Council, and Faculty of Social Sciences, and Equal Opportunity Cell University of Kerala
Director, Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), Loyola College of Social Sciences, since 2013
Coordinator of the 3rd Cycle of Reaccreditation National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), 2014,
Loyola College of Social Sciences, Trivandrum in which the College was reaccredited with “A” with a CGPA of 3.72
on a 4-point scale, the highest grade in the State of Kerala.
Honorary Director, Institute of Social Research and Action (ISRA), A Non-Profitable Organisation, Reg. No.
1469/2015, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, Since December 2015
Country Coordinator and Principal Investigator in India, World Science Project, Under Louisiana State
University, Louisiana, USA, Since 2003 January www.worldsci.net
Chairman Board of Studies,
MA Sociology, University of Kerala
BSW & MSW University of Kerala
MAHRM, University of Kerala
BA & MA Sociology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
Member, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sri Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady
Member, Faculty of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
Member, Board of Studies, Sociology
MASociology, Calicut University
PG Sociology, Sri Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady
Institute of Distance Education, University of Kerala
MG University, Kottayam
Coordinator and faculty Study Abroad Programme, Cleveland State University (CSU) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. in
Loyola College, Trivandrum, Kerala, 1999 – 2009
Vice President, Kerala Sociological Society, 2007-2009
Secretary, Kerala Sociological Society, 2009-2011
Assistant Director & Administrator Loyola Extension Services, Loyola College, Trivandrum, Kerala, India, March
2000 – April 2003
Warden, Men’s Hostel, Loyola College of Social Sciences, Trivandrum, 1999-2002
Director, CHILDLINE, Trivandrum Kerala, A project of Government of India for Children in distress, in
partnership with UNICEF and NGOs. 2000-2002
Member, Sub-Committee, Loyola Family Counselling Centre, Trivandrum, Kerala, India. 2000-200.
