Sustianability Transitions and Sustainable Development Goals

Decentralisation and Public Policy

Labour Market and Wage Systems

Global Value Chain Analysis in Manufacturing Industries

Research Methodology and Training 

Journals

1. Technological competition and the world order. Economic and Political Weekly 2025-06-21, Contributors Dev Nathan, Rahul S
2. Global Monopsony, Contracting Practices and Labour Outcomes: A Study of Garment GVCs in India, The Indian Journal of Labour Economics 2024-12-03, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41027-024-00546-w, Contributors: Dev Nathan, S. Rahul, Lakshmi Bhatia, Rekha Chakravarthi, Pradeepan Ravi
3. Technological Upgrading and Educational Composition of the Workforce, The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2024-09-25, DOI: 10.1007/s41027-024-00521-5, Contributors: Dev Nathan; S. Rahul; Joonkoo Lee; Shengjun Zhu; William Milberg; Lauren Johnston
4. Transition to sustainable development in the tanning industry: Evidence from leather value chain in Tamil Nadu, India, Sustainable Development 2023-08, DOI: 10.1002/sd.2560, Contributors: Bino Paul; Rahul Shaji; Unmesh Patnaik; Ashraf Pulikkamath; Irfan Ahmed; Soumen Ghosh
5. After the Long Walk Home…the Gendered Rural Safety Net, Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy: A triannual Journal of Agrarian South Network and CARES, 2023-06DOI: 10.1177/22779760231164860, Contributors: Dev Nathan; Rahul S.; Govind Kelkar
6. Multiculturalism and social work education, International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies2020, DOI: 10.1504/ijhrcs.2020.109260,Contributors: Jincy Elsy George and Rahul S

Books

Reverse Subsides in Global Monopsony Capitalism: Gender, Labour and Environmental Injustice. Cambridge University Press, January 2022, Online ISBN:9781009058179, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009058179, Contributors: Dev Nathan, Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, S. Rahul, Purushottam Kumar, Immanuel Dahagani, Sukhpal Singh, Padmini Swaminathan

Book Chapters

What Makes Enterprises in Auto Component Industry Perform? Emerging Role of Labour, Information Technology, and Knowledge Management Edited Volume, Globalization of Technology Springer, India Studies in Business and Economics, 2018, DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-5424-2_11, URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5424-2_11, Contributors: Bino Paul, G. Jaganth, Minz Johnson Abhishek & S. Rahul

Protection and Promotion of Child Rights through Local Governments in Kerala, Edited Volume Rights-Based Development Published by KILA, 2015

Working Papers

Co-authored a working paper for ILO on Gendered Safety Nets and Growing Inequality: Pandemic-induced Recession in India https://www.ilo.org/global/publications/working-papers/WCMS_847029/lang-- en/index.htm

Coauthored a Multi-country report on Wage Theft in garment Industry during COVID 19 Pandemic for Asia Floor Wage Alliance https://asia.floorwage.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Money- Heist_Book_Final-compressed.pdf

Co-Authored paper on “The Walk to Sustainability: Skilling, Learning and Technology in Leather Tanning Clusters of Tamil Nadu, India” (Under Review)

Co-Authored paper on “Invisible Work”: Women as main pillars of Indian Agriculture” (Under Review)

1. Women, Upgrading and Employment relations in India, 2025 for Institute of Human Development
2. Industry and Labour Relations in Seafood Processing Industry in Veraval Cluster, Gujarat in India, 2025 for Society for Labour and Development
3. Effectiveness of social health protection through ESIS scheme in India among Garment workers, 2025 for CIVIDEP India
4. Identifying human rights risks and challenges in the electronics sector in Tamil Nadu, 2025 for GIZ and CIVIDEP India
5. Research on the Impact of Global Clothing and Footwear Retailers’ Purchasing Practices on Indian Manufacturers in India, 2025 for Transform Trade
6. Research on Sustainability Transition of Self-Help Groups (SHGs) in Parner Taluka, Maharashtra
7. Gender Analysis of Leather Workers in Tamil Nadu, 2024 for Solidaridad Chennai, India
8. Living Wage Estimation for Garment Workers in South Asian Garment Production Units, 2023-24 for Global Labor Justice - International Labor Rights Forum in conjunction (GLJ-ILRF) across Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Philippines
9. Study on the effectiveness of existing grievance and remedy mechanisms in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Companies in Indo-German footwear and leather garment supply chains, 2023-24, for INKOTA Germany.
10. Value Chain Analysis of Electronics Industry in Tamil Nadu India, 2023 for CIVIDEP- International Labour Organisation
11. GVC Analysis of the Garment Value Chains in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh 2022, International Labour Organisation
12. Living Wage Estimation for Garment Workers in South Asian Garment Production Units, 2022, for Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA) across Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka.
13. Development of Human Rights Due Diligence Framework in Global Production Systems, 2022, for CIVIDEP, Bangalore
14. Wage and Employment Loss Estimation in Global Garment Value Chain as Result of COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021, for Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA) across Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka
15. ILO Working Report on Pandemic Induced Recession in Food Value Chains in India, 2021, International Labour Organisation
16. Due Diligence Study in Leather Cluster in Tamil Nadu, 2021, for Inditex and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
17. GVC Analysis of Garment, Leather and Auto Component Industry in India, 2017-20 for Society for Labour and Development

MA/MSc Analytics

• Statistics for Analytics
• Tools for Data Visualisation 
• Research Methods 
• SDG Analytics 
• Social and Economic Impact
• Evaluation
• Environmental Analytics 
• Introduction to micro and macro data 

BS in Analytics and Sustainability Studies

• Visualisation in Research Methods
• Introduction to Working with Spreadsheets
• Introduction to SPSS
• Introduction to SDG Analytics
• Introduction to Micro and Macro Data
• Research Methods for Sustainability Studies
• Sustainability Reporting and ESG
• Global Value Chains and Sustainability
• Principles and Methods of Imapct Evaluvation

MA in Social

• Work Women and Work

MA in International Development Practice

• Quantitative Research for Sustainability Studies