Dr. Soumen Ghosh holds a PhD from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. His doctoral research focused on examining the social sustainability landscape within India’s leather supply chain. Before joining RV University, he served as a Visiting Faculty at TISS, Tuljapur, where he taught Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, International Economics, and Development Economics to undergraduate students. At RV University, Dr. Ghosh teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate students, with a focus on Macroeconomics, Development Economics, Labour Economics, the Green Economy, and Life Cycle Assessment. In addition to his academic role, he is actively involved in non-academic responsibilities as well. His research interests encompass Labour Economics, Sustainability Transitions, Social Dialogue, Social Life Cycle Assessment, and related areas. Dr. Ghosh has published in reputed journals and presented his research at both national and international conferences.
‘Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.’ - Rabindranath Tagore
Soumen Ghosh & Srija Mitra (2023). How Does Subcontracting Affect the Performance of the Informal Enterprise? - Source of Advancement or Exploitation?; Vision: The Journal of Business Perspective (SAGE) (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/09722629231164862)
Soumen Ghosh & Bino Paul, Rahul Shaji, Unmesh Patnaik, Ashraf Pulikkamath, Irfan R (2023). Transition to Sustainable Development in the Tanning Industry: Evidence from leather value chain in Tamil Nadu, India; Sustainable Development (Wiley) Volume: 31; Issue: 4 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2560)
Soumen Ghosh & Srija Mitra (2023). The Impact of Waste Management Practices on The Performance of The Apparel, Textile and Leather Industry: The Indian Case; Environmental Risk and Resilience in the Changing World: Integrated Geospatial AI and Multidimensional approach Eds. Swapan Talukdar, Atiqur Rahman, Somnath Bera, GV Ramana, Atish Prashar; A Springer Book Serise GIScience and Geo-environmental Modelling (Forthcoming)
Soumen Ghosh (2023). A Bibliometric Analysis of Social Life Cycle Assessment (2008-2022); Developments in Energy and Environment- Select Proceedings of TRACE 2022 Eds. Rafid Al Khaddar, N. D. Kaushika, S.K Singh, R. K. Tomar and S.K. Jain; A Springer Book Serise Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1388-6_6).
Soumen Ghosh & Sandhya S. Iyer (2022). Challenges in Social Dialogue in India in Times of Crisis and Pandemic: Implications on Securing of SDGs; Fredrich Ebert Stiftung, India (https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/indien/19117.pdf)
Soumen Ghosh & Vivekananda Datta, Dipak Kumar Mondal, Rishav Mukherjee, Kali Shankar Chattopadhyay, Saumya Chakrabarti (2015). Adoption of recommended doses of fertilizers on soil test basis by farmers; Agro-Economic Research Centre, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, India; Study No. 179.
ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship (December 2021) He was awarded the ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship by the Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi, in December 2021. This prestigious fellowship supports his doctoral studies, enabling him to contribute significantly to the field of social science research.
Travel Grant - 61st Annual Conference of ISLE (December 2019) In December 2019, he received a Travel Grant from the Indian Society of Labour Economics, New Delhi, to attend the 61st Annual Conference of ISLE. This grant facilitated his participation in the conference, allowing him to present his research to a broader academic audience.
Young Researchers Grant (June 2019) He was the recipient of the Young Researchers Grant from Tata Trust in June 2019. This grant, awarded by the Doctoral Student Office (DSO) at TISS, Mumbai, provided crucial support for his MPhil research, helping him to conduct his primary study in a significant manner.