Rajendra Baikady

rebsl — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 15:33:38 +0000

Rajendra Baikady, Ph.D.FRSA is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work, at the Central University of Kerala, India, and a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Social Work and Community Development, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He was a Special Post-Doctoral Fellow & Assistant Lecturer at the Department of the Social Work University of Johannesburg, South Africa during the academic year 2020-2022. In addition to this, Baikady is a Principal Investigator (Summer Research Fellowship) at International Socioeconomic Laboratory, Harvard University, United States and a Research Associate at the Water Policy Center in India. He completed his first Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (2019-2020), and was awarded Golda Meir Fellowship by Lady Davis Trust at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was also a recipient of the Taiwan Government’s Short Term Research Award (2018), for academic research at National Chengchi University, Taiwan, and the Confucius Institute Understanding China Fellowship by the Government of China (2018-2019) for academic research at Shandong University, China. He has wide research experience in evaluating best practices of social work education and practice in both local and global contexts. Dr. Baikady is the Founding Editor in Chief of the Journal "Discover Global Society" published by Springer Nature, London.

Margaret Alala

alexall5 — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 17:45:34 +0000

Margaret is a doctoral student whose research highlights coloniality in contemporary mental health practices and its impacts on Black women in the global North who are diagnosed with schizophrenia in the mental health system. She is also interest in therapeutic community alternatives to carceral mental health practices.

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Rajendra Baikady

Margaret Alala