Meenakshi Singh completed her M.A. in Environment and Development from the School of Human Ecology, Ambedkar University Delhi. She has been associated with ecological restoration projects, disputed lands, working mostly in Central and East India. Meenakshi was associated with the centre as a Junior Research Assistant at the Centre for Urban Ecology and Sustainability.
Amit Kaushik completed his Masters in Environment and Development from the School of Human Ecology, Ambedkar University Delhi. He has been working on understanding the co-relation between Kiangs (a wild herbivory) and human settlements (Changpas) in the Tsokar region of Ladakh. His academic interests are in rangeland management, landscape ecology, urban ecology among others. Amit was associated with the centre as a Junior Research Assistant at the Centre for Urban Ecology and Sustainability.
Vipin Kumar has completed his B.Sc. (Hons.) Botany from Zakir Husain College, University of Delhi. He obtained his Masters Degree in Environmental Studies from the Department of Environmental Studies, University of Delhi. He has worked on “Variability of Leaf Construction Cost Among Invasive Growth Forms” as part of his M.Sc. dissertation at the Department of Environmental Studies, University of Delhi. He has also worked as research fellow in a DST-funded research project titled “Groundwater and Surface Water Monitoring and Analysis” at the Shriram Institute for Industrial Research, Delhi.
Shashank Bhardwaj has a keen interest in the field of ecological restoration. He has been actively involved in various restoration projects in a variety of landscapes in India. Rangeland and grassland ecology are also thematics that interest him. Besides his academic interests, he enjoys travelling and photography. Given a chance, Shashank will be more than willing to escape to the mountains for a trek. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Human Ecology from Ambedkar University Delhi.
Aditi Dhillon has recently completed her post-graduation in Environment and Development (Batch of 2021) from the School of Human Ecology, Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD). Human-animal relations and looking at the co-creation of space by both humans as well as non – human beings and entities has been her area of interest. Her internship as well as her master’s thesis looked at the relationship between the rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) and their human counterparts in the city of Delhi, where, her specific focus was to look at the enmeshed and overlapping lifeworlds of humans and macaques, and, in the process, unravel the agency that non-human beings possess. Her research, therefore, has been ethno-ethological in nature, dabbling in urban as well as socio-political ecology.
Divya Mehra’s admiration of trees and forests started at a very young age. Her curiosity to understand the functioning of biodiversity and ecosystems led her to do her Masters in Environment and Development from the School of Human Ecology, Ambedkar University Delhi. She has been associated with a conservation organisation, working mostly on urbanisation and land-use change and its impact on forested areas.
Vijaylakshmi Suman completed her M.A in Environment and Development from the School of Human Ecology, Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD). Ever since, she has been specifically interested in Restoration Ecology, and also completed a dissertation on the restoration and recreation of the Dheerpur wetlands in the Yamuna floodplains of Delhi, by focusing on ecological and social referencing. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Human Ecology from AUD.
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