Dr. Sayendri Panchadhyayi

Education

• B.A. in Sociology, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata
• M.A. in Sociology, University of Hyderabad
• MPhil in Sociology, University of Hyderabad
• Ph.D. in Sociology, Presidency University, Kolkata.

Profile

Sayendri Panchadhyayi is an interdisciplinary sociologist and her research dwells on questions of care, lifecourse, ageing, temporality, and bereavement. She has previously taught at Lady Brabourne College, Scottish Church College, Muralidhar Girls’ College, Indira Gandhi National Open University and Rabindra Bharati University.

She has been an International Visiting Scholar to the Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield (February 2021 – July 2021). In 2021, she was invited to join the Birkbeck Institute of Social Research and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s working research group on ‘Age, Care and the Caring Crisis’, which has members in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia. Her research interests include –  Critical gerontology, Medical anthropology, Sociology of care, Sociology of time and space, Death studies and Public policy.

Her doctoral thesis was on The ‘Ayah’ and the Elderly: Illness, Nursing and Intimate Labour in Kolkata’s Domestic Spaces.

Research Interests

• Critical gerontology
• Medical anthropology
• Sociology of care
• Sociology of time and space
• Death studies
• Public policy

Publications

• Bereavement Support for In-Home Dying Older Adults in Urban India in Mortality (Taylor and Francis, Scopus indexed) [Peer-reviewed journal, 2024, forthcoming]. https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/call-for-papers-for-special-issue-of-mortality-innovation-at-the-end-of-life/
• Ayah-centred Care and Paid Home-care Work in India in Handbook on Social Justice in the Global South (Elgar Original Reference Series) [book chapter, 2024, forthcoming, Edward Elgar Publishing].
• The Dismantled Clock: Chronicling Parietal Osteosarcoma and Waiting for Healing, 2023, The Polyphony, Institute of Medical Humanities – Durham University, UK. November, 2023, forthcoming.
• The Tedium of Chronic Waiting: Delay, Temporality and Gender in Access to Healthcare in India, 2023, The Polyphony, Institute of Medical Humanities – Durham University, UK. https://thepolyphony.org/2023/08/23/chronic-waiting-india/.
• Cartographies of Caring: Time, Temporality and Caring in Pandemic, International Gender Perspectives on Re/Production, State and Feminist Transitions, Barbara Budrich Publishers: Opladen, Sayendri Panchadhyayi, 2022, DOI: 10.3224/84742541; ISBN 978-3-8474-2541-0. 2020 [Book Chapter-International publication]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2crj1g3.10.
• Gender, Widowhood and Female Solidarity: A Study on Female Friendships of Later-Life Widows, Research on Ageing and Social Policy (Web of Sciences), 2021, DOI: 10.17583/rasp.2020.5053. [Peer-reviewed journal article]. https://hipatiapress.com/hpjournals/index.php/rasp/article/view/5053.
•  ‘Care, Carers and Covid-19: Reflections on Old Age Care in India’, 2021, The Polyphony, Institute of Medical Humanities, Durham University, Durham, UK. https://thepolyphony.org/2021/06/11/care-carers-and-covid-19-reflections-on-old-age-care-in-india/.
• The Gender Question in Geriatric Care: Gender, Ageing and Caring Networks, Women in the Changing World: Issues & Challenges, Mittal Publications: New Delhi, Sayendri Panchadhyayi, 2020, ISBN 81-8324-982-5. [Book chapter- National Publication]. Amazon page link.
• Listen to the untold tales of the female “Disabled” students studying at an institute for Higher Education in India, 2017, Women in a Changing World, Indian Association for Women’s Studies (IAWS)