We are excited to welcome Soumyajit Bhar as a new member of the SCORAI Global board. Soumyajit took the opportunity to briefly introduce himself.
I’m Soumyajit Bhar, currently serving as Assistant Dean of Admissions and Outreach, and founding faculty at the School of Liberal Studies, BML Munjal University (BMU), India. My academic journey began with a PhD in Sustainability Studies from the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), and over the past 15 years, I’ve worked at the intersection of environmental ethics, psychology, and education.
My research focuses on how rising material aspirations and developmental imaginaries reshape consumption patterns, relational life, and community resilience in unequal urban contexts. I’ve long been interested in how psycho-social drivers and ecological degradation converge in ways that deepen inequality and fracture collectivity.
To take this work forward, I founded the Community Transitions Research Centre (CTRC) at BMU, which focuses on the disintegration and reconstitution of community life under conditions of ecological and economic transition. We explore how aspirations, mental well-being, gender, and sustainability intersect through immersive fieldwork, youth-led studies, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
As I join the Board of SCORAI-Global, I am excited to bring perspectives from the Global South—especially grounded in India’s complex development landscape—into broader conversations on sustainable consumption and societal transitions. I’m particularly interested in building dialogue around everyday ethics, affective labor, mental health, and intergenerational aspirations.
It’s an honor to join this dynamic network. I look forward to learning from and contributing to SCORAI’s vibrant community, and to fostering collaborative work that bridges regional and disciplinary boundaries.