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    Meet the Assistant Professor - II

    Soumyajit Bhar

    Assistant Professor - II,
    School of Liberal Studies

    Soumyajit Bhar

    Email : soumyajit.bhar@bmu.edu.in

    Soumyajit Bhar is an Assistant Professor at the School of Liberal Studies, BML Munjal University. He has completed PhD in Sustainability Studies from Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment. His research interests include Ecological Economics, Socio-Psychological drivers of consumption patterns and understanding the process to implement sustainability transition in the context of the Global South. He worked as assistant professor at Krea University and taught courses across environmental studies, psychology, and economics. He has more than 15 years of academic and action research experience (both volunteering and full-time) working with various environmental and sustainability issues.

    From - To (Year) Designation & Organization Core Competency Additional Exp. Details
    Jun, 2021 -- Aug, 2023 Assistant Professor, Krea University
    December, 2019 -- December, 2020 Research Fellow, LEAD at Krea University
    Jun, 2011 -- Apr, 2013 Middle School Teacher, Pathashaala, KFI
    June, 2010 -- May, 2011 Research Associate, Development Research Communication and Services Centre
    Journal Articles
    • 2026. The Violence of Aspiration: Symbolic Harm and the Crisis of Development in the Global South. HARM, 5, 1–14.
    • 2025. Asset Index as an Indicator of Household Permanent Income in India: Comparison with Total Expenditure and Income. Journal of Quantitative Methods, 9(1), 33–65.
    • Bhar, S., & Lele, S. 2025. Luxury Consumption in India: Exploring the Environmental, Social, and Cultural Dimensions of Affluence. Economic & Political Weekly, 60(2), 86–92.
    • Bhar, S., & Dhara, C. 2025. A scalability-centric perspective on global human development within environmental limits. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 21(1), Article 2454062.
    • Wallnoefer, L. M., Svensson-Hoglund, S., Bhar, S., & Upham, P. 2024. At the intersections of influence: Exploring the structure–agency nexus across sufficiency goals and time frames. Sustainability Science, 19(3), 683–686.
    • Bhar, S., Lele, S., Min, J., & Rao, N. D. (2024). Water, air pollution and carbon footprints of conspicuous/luxury consumption in India. Ecological Economics, 218.
    • Soumyajit Bhar, Sharachchandra Lele, Narasimha D Rao. 2021. “Beyond income: correlates of conspicuous and luxury consumption in India“. Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy, 18(1): 142-157
    • Soumyajit Bhar. 2018. “Consuming with Mindfulness: Import of Buddhist Philosophy for an Ethic toward Consumerism”. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (SCOPUS), 26(3): 1563-1578.
    • Soumyajit Bhar. 2019. “Introducing Phenomenological Research Methodology in Sustainable Consumption Literature: Illustrations from India”. International Journal of Qualitative Methods (SAGE), 18:1-14.
    • Bejoy K Thomas, Soumyajit Bhar, and Shoibal Chakravarty. 2021. “Environmental Revival During COVID-19”. Ecology, Economy, and Society 4(1): 13-20.
    • Kalpita Bhar Paul and Soumyajit Bhar. 2023. “Reconciling Interpretations of ‘Being asSuch’: Contribution to Ecophenomenology. International Journal of Applied Philosophy,36(2): 307-326.
    • Mentored a team for India in ASEF Summer University Hackathon, 2021.
    • Part of editorial team of Routledge Sustainable Consumption Book Series