Dina Banerjee is a behavioural scientist with sociology as her mother discipline. At present she co-heads the Centre for Development Policy and Management at the Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur (IIMU). Before IIMU, she worked as a faculty in the Department of Sociology and the Organizational Development and Leadership Program, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, USA (2011-2015), and as a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Engineering Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA (2009-2011). Her current development-oriented research projects are threefold. First, via an extensive field work in five tea estates of Assam, she explores work-life experiences of the women contractual tea plantation workers. At the intersection of gender, tribal identity, and poverty, the purpose of this project is to delve into the coping mechanisms in the face of severe adversities and the dynamics of agency thereby.

Second, she studies the impact of casteism within the science, technology, engineering, and mathematic (STEM) academia in India, focusing specifically on the attrition and retention-related experiences of the Dalit scholars. And third, Dina examines the interplay of gender, caste, and class in the context of organizational leadership in India. By means of in-depth interviews with multiple Dalit women who hold eminent leadership positions in various organizations , this study investigates the challenges that leaders face and how they navigate and negotiate their ways through leadership expectations vis-à-vis gender, caste, and class identities.

Her papers are published in journals like Personnel Review, Gender, Work, and Organization, Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, The Journal of Leadership Education, Sociological Viewpoints, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, Reflective Practice: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives, International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, and International Journal of Contemporary Sociology: A Discussion Journal of Contemporary Ideas and Research.

Dina did her PhD in Sociology from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. Her first Masters is in Sociology (specializing in Industry, Labour, and Organization) from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata. Her second Masters is in Public Relations from the Rajendra Prasad Institute of Management & Communications, Mumbai, India. And her third Masters is in Sociology (specializing in Gender) from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.

Research Specialisation: Gender, Marginalization, Intersectionality, Trauma, Labour Market, Career, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Identity, Agency-Structure Interaction, and Work-Life Experiences.