Research Interest - Violence against Women , Girl Child Sexual Abuse, Gender & Sexulity , Law and its implementation, Masculinities and working  with state systems 

RESEARCH  CONTRIBUTIONS

2021 Substance Abuse Among Bedia Community in the State Of Madhya Pradesh funded by National Institute of Social Defense (NISD), Ministry of Social Welfare and Justice, GoI (2020-21) in collaboration with Samvedna, Bhopal

2019 Breaking the Silence - A study on understanding the procedures and     implementation strategies under Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 funded by Maharashtra State Commission for Women

2017 Men, Intimate Partner Violence and Change: Understanding Feminist Social Work    Interventions at the Special Cell. PhD Thesis, TISS, Mumbai

2015 Let them Fly: Implementation of PCMA 2006 in Haryana – A research study report, funded and published by DWCD, Govt. Haryana (2015)

2014 Quest for Justice: A Study of the Implementation of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 co-author with Monica Sakhrani funded by Govt. of India.

2004 Mission Statement of Special Cell for women and Children co-authored with Dr.  Rajshree Mahthani

1997 Documentation of Police Cases of Sexually Abused girls under the age of 10 years between the years 1994–1995 co-authored with Nahida Shaikh funded by Terr Des Home

1997 Contributed one chapter on training to the Documentation of the Special Cell titled “Because the Personal is Political”.

1989 Contributed to the research on Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code as a part of field work in Special Cell for Women and Children published in a book titled Shades of Courage- Women and 498A IPC printed by Akshara

1989 “Case studies of Hijras (Eunuchs) in Bombay City” as a part fulfillment of M.A. in Social Work Programme.

· Panchal, T. J., Thusoo, S., Inamdar, V., & Balaji, A. (2023). Domestic Violence and the Law: A Study of Complaints Under the Protection of Women From Domestic Violence Act, 2005 in Maharashtra, India. Violence Against Women, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012231188091
 

· Panchal, T. J.and Chandrasekhar A., (2022) Domestic Violence during the Covid 19 lockdown: Interventions by Special Cell for Women located at Police Stations in the edited book Pandemic of Perspectives: Creative Re-imaginings. 
 

· Rochelle L. Dalla, Kaitlin Roselius, Victoria J. Johnson, Jessie Peter, Trupti Jhaveri Panchal, Ramani Ranjan, Mrinalini Mishra, Sagar Sahu,(2022)  A life-course perspective of sex trafficking among the Bedia caste of India, Advances in Life Course Research, Volume 54, 100517, ISSN 1040-2608, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2022.100517.

· Dalla, R. L., Roselius, K., Erwin, S., Peter, J., Panchal, T. J., Ranjan, R., Mischra, M., & Sahu, S. (2022). Family Sex Trafficking Among the Bedia Caste of India: Defying the Dominant Human Trafficking Discourse. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(23-24), NP22966-NP22991. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605211073104

· Panchal, T. J. and Minj, N. (2021) Violence against Women and Girls: A Barricade to Youth development and the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals in the edited book Youth & India’s Sustainable Development Goals, Vitasta Publication, New Delhi

· Dalla, R. L., Panchal, T.J., Erwin, S., Peter, J., Roselius, K., Ranjan, R., ... Sahu, S. (2020). Structural vulnerabilities, personal agency, and caste: Child sex trafficking in rural India, Violence and Victims, 35(3), 307–330. https://doi.org/10.1891/VV-D-19- 00048

· Panchal, T. J.and Thusoo, S. (2020) Child Marriages in Haryana: Challenges in Implementing PCMA, 2006, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 55, Issue No. 19, 09 May, 2020

· Panchal, T. J. and Sriraman, T. (2019) Indigenising Feminist Social Discourse in India- Social Work Methods Redefined through the Special Cells for Women Approach (2019) in the edited book Indigenising Social Work Practice in India by Bloomsbury, New Delhi.

· Book- State of the State Maharashtra-Multi-Agency Response to Violence Against Women (January 2019), Vitasta Publication, Co-authored with Vinita Ajgaonkar

· Sakharani, M. and Panchal, T. J., (May 2019) Long Road to Justice: Implementation of The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act (2005) In Haryana, 2006-2012 Chapter in book Conflict in the Shared Household Domestic Violence and the Law in India, Oxford publication 

· Sakharani, M. Panchal, T. J et.al (2017) In Search of Justice: Examining the Implementation of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act (2006) in Haryana in Economic and Political Weekly Nov LII no 46

· Panchal T. and Lazras J. (2017), Special Cell for Women and Children: An Approach Towards Addressing Violence Against Women. Indian Journal of Social Work. Vol.78, Issue 2

· Kashyap, L. and Panchal, T. (2014) Family Violence from an Indian Perspective in the book Family Violence from Global Perspective -A Strengths-Based Approach, Sage Publication

· Panchal, T. (2013) Immoral women or Victms? Prostitution in India, in edited book Human Trafficking – The Stakeholder's Perspective, Sage Publication

· Panchal, T. (2011) "Coordinated response to combat violence against women: A participative policing initiative of Madhya Pradesh Police, India".  In Community Policing Misnomer or fact? New Delhi: Sage Publications, 187-203

· Mishra, V. and Panchal, T. (2009-2010) Coordinated response to combat violence against women: A participative policing initiative of Madhya Pradesh Police, India. Journal of Gender Equality and sensitivity Vol.4 Number:1

· Panchal, T. (2009) Working with Women Facing Spouse Abuse, Special Issue on Marriage and Family Counseling, the Indian Journal of Social Work. Volume 70, Issue 2 April 323- 348  

 Faculty In Charge Of two Field Work Projects (FAP)

• Resource Centre on Intervention on Violence against Women (RCI-VAW)

• Special Cell for Women and Children, Maharashtra

· Special Cell for Women & Children   (Maharashtra) : Special Cells ( units ) for women established in 1984 which are  strategically located in  police stations for giving socio- legal services and a multi-agency  coordinated response to the issue of violence against women.

· Resource Centre for Interventions on Violence Against Women (2007)  : have been able to set-up pilots, expand and institutionalise the Special Cells for Woman approach in various States' contexts.

Prime Responsibilities and Past Work:

· Work with 15 states and Union Territory’s on innovating, demonstrating, hand holding & evaluating State-based Violence against Women intervention models in the last two decades. As on today have started and institutionalized more than 250 offices of Special Cells in Maharshtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Delhi and Haryana and is currently leading the setting up process in   Bihar, Jarkhand, Assam, UT of Ladhak and Jammu and Kashmir.

· Leading all programme and financial management, advocacy, strategic communication, research & documentation, and in-Mumbai & externally based teams, across projects

· Coordinating and guiding a growing team of RCI-VAW 's 100 persons across States, as also supporting the work of 32 personnel of Special Cells for Women & Children in Maharashtra.

· Working strategic relationships with NCW (GoI) (2009 to Present), State Governments of Haryana, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Bihar, U.P., M.P., Assam, Meghalaya, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha, Delhi, Punjab & Rajasthan, multiple networks of women’s groups, NGOs, Universities, Dasra, and other NGOs & INGOs (incl. UN Women, UNDP, Oxfam)

· Worked closely with Haryana State Government programme of Special Cells for Women & Children, for capacity-support, monitoring, documentation, systems-setting, as part of TISS’ technical support. (2009 to 20015)

· Under TISS’ partnership with Oxfam India for demonstration of Special Cells for Women approach in new States, conducted advocacy for, developed programme design with and supported Government of Gujarat in institutionalisation, systems-setting, personnel training (design & implementation) w.r.t. Police-based Support Centre for Women programme, as well as 181 Women Helpline programme of Gujarat Government’s Gender Resource Centre.

· Replication of Special Cell for Women and Children in Haryana and Madhya Pradesh; The TISS collaborated with UNDP in the project 'Strengthened Access to Justice in India' (SAJI phase I) to replicate Special Cell in the State of Haryana and Madhya Pradesh (2007-2009)

ACADEMIC /TEACHING EXPERIENCE

My work encompassed teaching, fieldwork supervision, project co- ordination, research and training for the Post-Graduate Program in Social Work. I taught/ co-taught the following courses since 1996 to till date:

· Counseling: Theory and Practice

· Case work: Method of Social Work

· Interventions in the Family Life cycle

· Women Centered Social Work Practice

· Family Centered Social Work Practice

· Engendering Rural Realities

· Understanding Violence against Women – Theory and Practice

· Introduction to Counselling (1 Credit) and Process of Counselling (4 credits) (for Centre Human Ecology and Centre      for Life Long learning (CLL))

· Youth and Sexuality (In Diploma Course of CLL)

· Gender and Sexuality (In Foundation course)