Manikandan V
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- Narrative Analysis
- Inclusive Development
- Right to Food
- Social Inclusion
- Child Rights
- Disability Rights
- Community Conservation
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Organic Certification
- NGO Governance
Biography
Manikandan is a development practitioner with more than 16 years of work experience before joining the University in 2021. His experience is mainly in the areas of action research, NGO governance, grant management, fundraising, planning, monitoring and evaluation (PME), and operations including finance and human resource management.
He completed his Master’s in Rural Development and Management alongside a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication, both from Gandhigram Rural University, Dindigul.
His research work is on the ‘right to food’ and social inclusion with a specific focus on urban poverty. He is trained in the use of narrative analysis as a tool to explore beliefs and social institutions.
He was previously associated with Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory (KGC, Stanford University), Centre for Equity Studies (CES, New Delhi) and the Timbaktu Collective (TC, Anantapur). His association with TC has been the longest, where he was part of their overall operations for more than a decade. He served as its Director (Operations and Administration) at the time of his relieving.
He has been intrigued by the multitude of elements that lead to societal inequities and is interested in exploring models that thrive to make the world an equitable one. He likes travelling, poetry and listening to people and their stories.
Courses
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Core
Social Interventions
This course enables students to understand deliberated and strategic actions for social change by analysing the subjects, sites and modes/modalities of social action.
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Elective
Building Social Enterprises
Learning about the key concepts and regulations that shape social enterprises, as well as enable them to systematically plan for the establishment of a social enterprise.
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Postgraduate Diploma in Development Leadership
For experienced development professionals
Publications
Reports
- Centre for Equity Studies, New Delhi (2009). Darkness Under Lamps: Urban Slums and Food Entitlements in India. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/162464128.pdf
- Centre for Equity Studies, New Delhi (2009). Living Rough: Surviving city streets, a study of homeless populations in Delhi, Chennai, Patna, and Madurai. http://www.shram.org/uploadFiles/20130410014734.pdf
- Human Rights Law Network, New Delhi. (2009). Right to Food. https://books.google.co.in/books?id=IkS-Y5RlheMC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Magazine Article
- Manjula, M., Manikandan, V., & Sharma, D. (2022, September 21). Building farm resilience through natural farming – Reflections from Field. Leisa India. https://leisaindia.org/building-farm-resilience-through-natural-farming-reflections-from-field/