Dr. Renu Vinod is Assistant Professor (Adjunct), at the Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts (SSLA), SIU, Pune since 2020 before which she worked as lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Savitribai Phule Pune University. She received her PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. She has undertaken postdoctoral work at the University of Uppsala, Sweden (2015) and the University of Freiburg, Germany (2009). Prior to joining academia, she worked in the development sector in New Delhi in the fields of right to information (Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative) and informal sector livelihoods (Centre for Civil Society), and in the field of corporate social responsibility (Times Foundation, Bennett, Coleman and Company Ltd.).
At SSLA, she oversees the sociology major and teaches a wide range of courses within the discipline, including classical sociological theory, the sociology of India, popular culture, environment and ecology, and the sociology of science and technology.
Most recently, she has authored a book on the sociology of modernity in India titled, Modernity in India: Issues, Perspectives and Challenges (Routledge, 2024) and a peer reviewed paper on the subjective experiences of female leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic titled, ‘We Need to Provide Education’: A Phenomenological Study of Female School Leaders During the COVID-19 Lockdown (Peace Prints, 2023). Her most recent research is on non-formal educational spaces and the pedagogy of care. More information on her work is available at: Renu Vinod Curriculum Vitae.
