• Name: Dr. Chandramani Piyush
• Gender: Male
• Department: Social Work
• Designation: Assistant Professor
• Specialisation: Rural Community Development, Population Studies, Social Work Research

• Project Officer, Centre for Excellence in CSR, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, (2025)
• Fieldwork Supervisor, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (2022-24)
• Social Worker, Special Cell for Women and Children, Araria, Bihar, A Field Action Project of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (2021-22)
• Executive, Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN), Mahagama, Godda, Jharkhand (2014-16)

• • Participated in the Third Buddhist Intellectual Collective winter school 2025 on “Logical Positivism from a Buddhist Lens” held between 8-10 February 15 2025, at Middle Way Retreat Centre, Kondhanpur, Pune, Maharashtra.
  • Attended a three-day workshop on “Philosophical Perspective in Social Sciences Research: Framing Research Methodology” held between May 30 and June 1, 2024, delivered by Prof. Vivek Kumar, Professor, School of Social Sciences, JNU, New Delhi.
  • Presented a paper, “Researching Self: A reflection on methodology and fieldwork with toddy-tappers in Muzaffarpur, Bihar”, in “National Conference on Social Work Research: Methodologies of the Peripheralized” organised by the School of Social Work, TISS Mumbai, 8^th -9^th January 2024.
  • Presented a co-authored paper, “Rain train and Tears: Everyday life of ‘Left Behind Women’ in Flood and Migration in North-Eastern Region of Bihar, India”, at the ‘International Conference on “Labour Migration and Sustainable Development in Asia: Opportunities Challenges and Way Forward” June 1-3, 2023, IIPS, Mumbai with author Subha Shristi.
  • Attended “One Day GIS Workshop” virtually organised by FOSSEE Project, NMEICT, Ministry of Education, Govt. of India on 02 May 2023. Enrollment No. 247495
  • Attended a five-day workshop on ‘A Hands-on Training of SPSS: Basics to Advanced.’ Between 26 and 30 April 2023 at IIPS, Mumbai.
  • Participated in the Faculty Development Programme (Virtual) on “Thesis Writing” held on 21st April 2021 at Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Chennai.
  • Participated in the 5^th edition of the Social Sciences winter school in Pondicherry Heritage community and sustainability for the “Reconstructing histories: theories, methods, and practices” workshop from 2^nd to 6^th December 2019 at the French Institute of Pondicherry.
  • Participated in “Workshop on Perspectives: Ethnographic Research Methods for Activists” at Sambhaavanaa Institute, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, from October 17 to 20, 2019.
  • Paper “Women in National Politics in South Asia” presented at International Conference on Gender Equality, Education, Culture & Social Sciences 2017, July 21-22, 2017, Mysore, India

Attended a One-week “Orientation Programme on Social Science Research Methodology” from 21 – 26 November 2016 at the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID), New Delhi.

• December 2022: UGC NET in Population Studies
• December 2015: UGC NET-JRF in Social Work
• February 2015: Lifetime member, “National Association of Professional Social Work in India (NAPSWI)”