About Shalini Sharma

Shalini Sharma is Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IISER Pune where she also heads the Science Media Centre. Her work on environmental/disaster sociology also engages with applied humanities.

Her previous and current projects are designed to build awareness and public engagement about what knowledges are crucial for sustainable communities, and how these knowledges can be applied for building resilience and adaptive capacities of people/policy. She has contributed to the International Panel on Climate Change assessing the impacts of climate change on cities and settlements (IPCC Climate Change 2022 – AR6, WG-II). Broadly, her research/teaching focuses on two key areas: a) Disaster studies and environmental justice b) Media studies and Science Communication.

Her interest in multimedia memory projects with pedagogical goals is long standing. She was instrumental in setting up the Remember Bhopal Museum. She is also a member of the Living Waters Museum and the Centre for Water Research at IISER Pune. Currently, she is collaborating with the Science Communication Unit at UWE, Bristol on exploring science communication project. As part of the Leeds’ LivingBodiesObject team, she has actively engaged with project’s participatory and creative approaches. She is also co-leading Dutch Government funded project, ‘AquaMuse’ focusing on interactive learning and education on the Nile and Sundarbans deltas through water museums, digital media and the arts.