Transdisciplinary Sustainability Scholar & Educator
PhD. Anth (2021) & PhD. Psyc (2013)
Prof. transdisciplinary research and psychology, Sister Nivedita University, Kolkata
International officer & India-lead- Marine Social Sciences Network
Human animal conflict advisor- Sundarban tiger widow welfare association.
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rajsekhar.aich@gmail.com +91 90518 75180
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ABOUT ME
I am a Sustainability Educator and Transdisciplinary Researcher working at the intersection of human–environment relations, education, and collaborative knowledge-making. My work explores how people learn to engage with ecological uncertainty, multispecies coexistence, and socio-environmental change, and how education can support meaningful sustainability transformations. Trained in psychology and anthropology, I bring together environmental social science, sustainability education, and the environmental humanities. I approach sustainability not only as an environmental challenge, but as a pedagogical one, shaped by emotion, ethics, culture, and lived experience. My research draws on ethnography, participatory and experiential methods, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and multimodal documentation.
Over the past fifteen years, I have conducted field-based research in diverse and fragile environments, including coastal India and Aotearoa New Zealand. Much of my empirical work uses human–shark relations as a lens to understand conflict, care, fear, and coexistence in sustainability contexts. Education is central to my scholarly identity. I design and teach interdisciplinary, experiential learning environments informed by project-, problem-, and challenge-based learning and transformative learning theory, with a strong commitment to knowledge for the common good. If you want an even sharper homepage one-liner or a LinkedIn version, I can do that next.
Videos
It has been a pleasure to present talks at various universities and research research organizations. Here are a few video sessions of virtual conference, and also other videos including my documentary film.
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Technology in human shark research,
a 5 min presentation.
Discussing about Technology in human shark research at the Digital Technology in Nature workshop organized by the The University of Melbourne, Australia. At the Animal Computer Interaction Conference 2021, 9 November 2021.
SHHRKS, Transdisciplinary human-shark research.
It has been a pleasure to introduce a new human- shark research methodology I have been working on for the Blackpool and The Fylde College. The lives and oceanscapes of sharks are highly threatened. The present way of creation and dissemination of knowledge is not having an effective impact on shark conservation initiatives. Consequently, in this proposal, I plant the seeds of Shark- human holistic research and Knowledge system approach (SHHRKS) a transdisciplinary, transmodal, tranceknowledge system multispecies approach in education, creation, analysis, and dissemination of shark knowledge and its application in policy. I explore the need for such an approach, the methodological considerations, and how can such an approach be beneficial. Furthermore, I propose examples of how such an approach be implemented through examples of a tentative curriculum.
Iridescent Skin,
the documentary
A sensory documentary exploring Humans and White sharks encountering each other through cage diving in Foveaux Strait, seen and felt through the eyes of the researcher among them. Sponsor, Art director, Logistics support, research Assistant- Soosie Lucas Primary editor- Sandip Chowdhury Director, producer, music, editor, camera- Raj Sekhar Aich (Please use headphones or good speakers while watching)