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Sayendri teaches Sociology at the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She has a B.A. (hons.), M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Sociology. She is appointed as an Associate at the Centre for Care, housed within the University of Sheffield, UK. Post-PhD, she was a Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and worked on ‘Healthcare inequalities in India: Mapping actors, logics and care practices’. She was an International Visiting Scholar in the Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield.
She has a wide experience of teaching in both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Scottish Church College, Lady Brabourne College, Muralidhar Girls’ College, IGNOU, Presidency University, Rabindra Bharati University and National Law School of India University. Based on her experience of teaching across resource-settings she harnesses a range of methods like scaffolding, visual aids, multi-sensorial learning, mobile methods, learning curve track and supervised learning, peer feedback, student-centred active learning, and blended learning for long-term learning outcome.
She is the co-founder of Sabr – a people’s collaborative that aims to bridge the gap between academia and the public on questions of care. She is an editorial member of En-Gender, an independent early-career scholar-led academic platform, and an invited member to EASA-AGENET. Beside these, she has delivered scholarly talks at Manipal Academy of Higher Education, The Ayah and Amah International Research Network (housed within LSE), Presidency University, Centre for Care, Global South Hub – CSSR, George Mason University, VIT-AP, Covid in the House of Old Exhibit organized by the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, and the Montreal History Group, and Jamshedpur Workers’ College, Kolhan University. She will be delivering a special lecture for the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan on her fieldwork journey at the peak of Covid-19.
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” ― Maya Angelou
Panchadhyayi, Sayendri and Saha, Sumita. (2024). Aging Widows in the Devotional Geography of Rural West Bengal, Society, 1-11. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s12115-024-01026-z [SCOPUS].
Panchadhyayi, S. (2024). Technologized Intimacies and Posthuman Kinship Across the Life Course. Anthropology & Aging, 45(2), 82-89. DOI: 10.5195/aa.2024.553. [SCOPUS and Web of Sciences].
Book review of Care and Support Rights After Neoliberalism, International Journal of Care and Caring (Scopus), Sayendri Panchadhyayi, DOI: 10.1332/23978821Y2024D000000032.
Book review of Care Poverty: When Older People’s Needs Remain Unmet, Anthropology & Aging (Scopus and Web of Sciences), Sayendri Panchadhyayi, DOI: 10.5195/aa.2024.512.
Cartographies of Caring: Time, Temporality and Caring in Pandemic, In Kupfer, A. & Stutz, C. (Eds.), International Gender Perspectives on Re/Production, State and Feminist Transitions, Opladen, Germany: Barbara Budrich Publishers, Sayendri Panchadhyayi DOI: 10.3224/84742541; ISBN 978-3-8474-2541- 0.
Gender, Widowhood and Female Solidarity: A Study on Female Friendships of Later-Life Widows, Research on Ageing and Social Policy (Web of Sciences), Sayendri Panchadhyayi, DOI: 10.17583/rasp.2020.5053.
The Gender Question in Geriatric Care: Gender, Ageing and Caring Networks, In Bhowmick, A. & Wahab, O. E. (Eds.), Women in the Changing World: Issues & Challenges, New Delhi, India: Mittal Publications, Sayendri Panchadhyayi. ISBN 81-8324-982-5.
Panchadhyayi, Sayendri (2024), review of “Care and the Pluriverse: Rethinking Global Ethics” by Maggie FitzGerald. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2022, 252 pp., En-Gender.
The Dismantled Clock: Chronicling Parietal Osteosarcoma and Waiting for Healing, The Polyphony, Institute of Medical Humanities - Durham University, UK, Sayendri Panchadhyayi.
The Tedium of Chronic Waiting: Delay, Temporality and Gender in Access to Healthcare in India, The Polyphony, Institute of Medical Humanities - Durham University, UK, Sayendri Panchadhyayi.
Care, Carers and Covid-19: Reflections on Old Age Care in India, The Polyphony, Institute of Medical Humanities - Durham University, UK, Sayendri Panchadhyayi.
In November 2023 she was selected and appointed as an Associate (external) at the Centre for Care, a collaboration between the Universities of Sheffield, Birmingham, Kent and Oxford, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the Office for National Statistics, and three leading charities: Carers UK, the National Children’s Bureau and the Social Care Institute for Excellence.
In May 2023, her research paper titled 'Intimate transactions in carework' secured the best paper awarded at the Global South Graduate Students Conference 2023 organized by Center for Social Sciences Research (CSSR), George Mason University, USA. The award carried a cash prize of 300 USD and a certificate.
She served as a member of the Internal Complaints Cell (ICC) of Presidency University, Kolkata as a Ph.D. scholar representative between December 2019 and December 2022.
