Research Assistant, Indian Institute of Management

Dr. Baishali Lahiri is an human geographer whose research interest straddle five main thematic areas:

1.  labour geography or geography of labour and the questions of social, economic and spatial mobility, in the continuum of informal-formal sectors of work
2. marginalized communities and their rights in and to city including accessibility to housing, education, health care and basic amenities, rights of their children to education and learning
3. micro-practices of producing urban space and the percepts of the urban
4. urbanization in global frame, particularly on south-south inter-connectedness
5. comparative geographies of caste/religion and color/race in India, South Asia and South Africa particularly from the viewpoint of laws of social reproduction
6. housing and residence in the purview of choice and affordability, economic compulsions and social segregation.

Baishali engages in inter-disciplinary research and have advanced university degree in Geography and also majored in Economics and Political Science. She makes a diversion from traditional geographers and urban planners by advocating the idea that livelihoods are core to life outcomes at the level of individual, household and community. Baishali uses a combination of econometric and qualitative tools for analysis.

Baishali was awarded a doctoral degree by Jawaharlal Nehru University, a pioneer institute in social science and higher education research in India.  She has worked in several institutes of repute at national and government levels and has publications in reputed journals and blogs.