SNDT Women's University

Faculty Member, Post Graduate Studies and Research

Professor and Head, PG Department of Economics

Post Graduate Studies and Research

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BIO-DATA of Dr. Vibhuti Patel
DIRECTOR, Department of Post Graduate Studies and Research (PGSR)
SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai-20
Dr. Vibhuti Patel is professor and head of the University Department of Economics and Director, Department of Post Graduate Studies and Research of SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai. 

She is a member of Expert Committee on School of Gandhian Thoughts, Board member of School of Extension & Development Studies and Board member of School of Gender and Development Studies for Indira Gandhi Open University (IGNOU). She is a member of Advisory Board of Department of Women’s Studies and a member of expert committee for The Seventh survey of Education Research of National Council of Education, Research and Training (NCERT), Delhi. She was a member of subgroup on Gender and Agriculture for the 11th Five Year Plan, the Planning Commission of India, GOI, Delhi. She is Expert Committee (EC) for Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, GoI, Delhi and National Advisory Board, PACS 2 (a programme of DFID), National Operations Office, Indian Forum for Inclusive Response & Social Transformation (IFIRST), Delhi.

She has been the founder member and Trustee of Anusandhan Trust and its institution Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT). She is Trustee of VACHA, Women’s Research and Action Group (WRAG),  and Olakh in Vadodara. She is the Governing Board member of Women Power Connect (WPC), Delhi and Institute for Community Organisation and Research (ICOR), Mumbai and Mahila Swaraj Abhiyan (Ahmedabad). She is a founder member of Member of Mumbai Initiative for Human Rights Education (MIHRE).

She received AWARD FOR SOCIAL SECTOR WORK from MAYOR OF MUMBAI, BMC on 8-3-2011 and “OUTSTANDING CITIZENSHIP AWARD” by Women Political Forum on Maharashtra Stree Mukti Din, 3rd January 2004 and THE TIMES FOUNDATION AWARD FOR WOMEN ACHIEVERS on March 8, 2007. On 18-1-2008, she received an AWARD FOR SOCIAL WORK FROM VANITA SAMAJ, Mumbai. On 7th March 2011 she received Award for Women Achievers from YOUNG ENVIRONMENTALISTS PROGRAMME TRUST, Mumbai. She was awarded POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP FROM ASSOCIATION OF COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY that enabled her to work as visiting faculty at the Development Studies Institute of THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE during 1992-93. 
She is Member of Editorial Board of The International Journal of Economics, Education and Development (TIJEED), Switzerland, Bharatiya Samajik Chintan, Indian Academy of social Sciences, Allahabad, August, 2008, Social Modernity-Asian Journal of Social Sciences, Ranchi, The Urban World, Quarterly Journal of Regional Centre for Urban Environmental Studies, All India Institute of Local self Government, Mumbai and Quest in Education, a quarterly journal published by Gandhi Shikshan Bhavan, Mumbai. She was a guest editor of a special number of SAMYUKTA, Vol. V, No. 1,  May 2005 on "Women and Development", published by Women's Initiatives and BHARATIYA SAMAJIK CHINTAN published by Indian Academy of Social Sciences Vol. VII, No. 2, July-September, 2008 and “SOCIAL MODERNITY, ASIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES”, Ranchi University, Ranchi, Jharkhand.
She has made contributions in Women’s Studies and Gender Economics.  She has authored a book Women’s Challenges of the New Millennium by Gyan Publication, Delhi, published in 2002. She has co-authored two books: Indian Women - Change and Challenge (1985) and Reaching for Half the Sky (1985). She has co-edited volume Macro Economic Policies and the Millennium Development Goals published by Gyan Publications, Delhi in 2006. She is co-editor of series of 15 volumes on Empowering Women Worldwide, The Women Press, Delhi, 2008. She has edited the book, Discourse on Women and Empowerment, The Women Press, Delhi, 2009 and Girls and Girlhoods-At the Threshold of Youth and Gender, 2010 by The Women Press, B. R. Publications, Delhi.
For twelve years, she wrote on Development Studies and Gender Issues for ECONOMIC TIMES and several academic journals. She has authored research monographs on Women’s Studies, Women’s movement, Portrayal of Women in Media, Alternate Media by Social Movements, Sex determination Tests and Declining Sex Ratio, Abuse of new reproductive technologies, Violence Against Women, Gender Audit of Budget and Work Participation of Women and has presented papers in several national and international seminars, workshops, training programmes and conferences and conducted researches in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, The Philippines, Thailand, Kenya, Senegal, France, The U.K., The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Yugoslavia, U.S.A. and The USSR. Her articles and research papers have appeared in several Indian and foreign languages in the national & international scholarly journals.  She was officially invited to participate in the UN End of Women’s Decade Conference in Nairobi (1985), the Festival of India in USSR, Moscow (1988), ILO Regional Conference in Bangkok (2003) and 49th UN Convention on Status of Women, New York (2005).