Dr. Vidya Venkat's Recognition (6)

Sutasoma Award/Radcliffe Brown Fund
2023 - 2024

Recognition Type	Fellowships and awards
Description	Awarded by the Royal Anthropological Institute (UK) in recognition of outstanding merit in anthropological research.

Fred Lightfoot Scholarship
2020 - 2021

Recognition Type	Fellowships and awards
Description	An award of GBP 5000 from SOAS South Asia Institute for supporting fieldwork-based research on a significant topic pertaining to India.
URL	https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/news/soas-doctoral-students-rakesh-sengupta-and-vidya-venkat-awarded-fred-lightfoot

SOAS Research Studentship
2018 - 2021

Recognition Type	Fellowships and awards
Description	A full scholarship supporting tuition and living expenses towards the PhD.
Affiliated Organisations	SOAS, University of London

Felix Scholarship
2011 - 2012

Recognition Type	Fellowships and awards
Description	A full scholarship to support M.A. degree-level studies at SOAS.
URL	https://www.felixscholarship.org/past-students/

Guest Lecturer at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
2024

Recognition Type	Invited contributions to international meetings, talks or conferences
Description	I was invited to deliver a two-part lecture on 'Tracing the trajectory of India's right-to-information movement' based on my doctoral research.

Panelist at Asia Society debate
2022

Recognition Type	Invited contributions to international meetings, talks or conferences
Description	I was invited to share my views on a debate on India's democratic decline by the Asia Society, Switzerland.
URL	https://asiasociety.org/video/oxford-debate-indias-democracy-under-threat