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Ruchira Das

A sociologist and educationist by training, Ruchira Das is Senior Associate Professor at Institute of Home Economics, University of Delhi. Dr. Das was associated with the UK Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project titled Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures led by University of Bristol and anchored at Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS), Bangalore as a Post-Doctoral Researcher. Her areas of research interest are: Urban Sociology, Sociology of Education and Marginality studies. Dr. Das is currently the Vice President of Comparative Education Society of India (CESI) affiliated to World Council for Comparative Education Societies (WCCES).

Written by Ruchira Das

  1. Climate action and literacy 27 November 2025

    Climate education for sustainable futures: A cross-country study of India and Philippines

    Ruchira Das, Ranjana Das

    Climate change is the ‘biggest modern threat that humans have ever faced’ (Eckstein et al. 2021). An apparently minor change in global temperatures, largely catapulted by human-industrial activities such as the acts of deforestation, burning fossil fuels and exploitation of natural resources, results in cataclysmic weather conditions, loss of biodiversity,...

    Climate education for sustainable futures: A cross-country study of India and Philippines
  2. Climate action and literacy

    Towards quality climate change education for all: A critical assessment of climate education policies in India and the Philippines

    Ruchira Das, Ranjana Das
    4 June 2025

    This research project explores and critically analyses climate change education policies and their execution in two South Asian nations that are pronouncedly susceptible to the impacts of climate change, the Philippines and India.

    Towards quality climate change education for all: A critical assessment of climate education policies in India and the Philippines See resources 1