Events

International Conference on Development Studies Using the Field Learning Methods

Call for Papers and Registration

Centre For Field Learning (CFFL) invites you to the International Conference on Development Studies, Using Field Learning Methods to be held on April 7-8, 2025. Please see the attached brochure for the themes of the conference.

CFFL is based on the conviction that a deep and thorough understanding of development processes and policy analysis can happen only by visiting the field. Thus the focus of the conference is on the research methodology – one that involves learning from the field. Papers are invited from any field of Humanity and Social Sciences dealing with the issues concerned with development. The papers should be (a) people centred and (b) based on the field data/observations or case studies. The data collection must have been done by the researcher herself.

We would like to inform the interested researchers that this conference is not about just making a presentation and leaving. The intention is to create a community where the members are seriously interested in learning about new ideas and methodologies. We would like the members to remain connected with each-other - share news about other interesting conferences and talks; arrange workshops in their thematic area wherein discussions will be held about their research topics; and collaborate for research projects. We are trying to build a community of researchers who believe in people-centred research and who believe in helping each-other.

If you have a research paper that you would like to present, please submit the paper as explained in the brochure. If you are interested in being a part of this community, please register as a participant and actively take part in the discussions and deliberations. The organizers hope to see you in maximum numbers, attending all the sessions with interest.      

Webinar series on Environment Preservation and Human Rights, organized by Centre for Field Learning for  the Centre for Transformative and Global Justice, University of Greenwich, UK, with support from Eko Consulting

January 15, 2025: Alka Parikh: Processes and Laws that led to Sikkim becoming the first 100% organic state in the world.

February 19, 2025: Nuzhat Parveen Khan and Oly Roy: The Silent Voices: Understanding the Reproductive Rights of Rape Victims from Socio-Legal Perspective in South Asia.

March 19, 2025: Abhishek Gupta: Pro Bono Culture in India: Enhancing Access to Justice through Voluntary Legal Service.

April 16, 2025: Kavita Mehta: The issues faced by the pastoral communities and the action projects by Sahjeevan.

Multidisciplinary Conference on Field Learning

We are planting forests!!  

From July end, the Founding Director of the Centre, with the funds of Sudha and Dhirendra Parikh (same fund that supports CFFL), started plantation of trees at two levels: 1. Putting up forest plantation in village wastelands and 2. Providing lucrative fruit tree saplings to women farmers. Two NGOs, Utthan and Vasundhara Foundation are helping in executing the work. Six village wastelands will be greened and 140 women farmers' incomes will be enhanced by Rs. 10,000 - 40,000 per year. 

The left is the photo of a woman from Mamsa village, Bhavnagar district, standing with the planted sapling of the coconut tree that she received from us. The right is the photo of the people who helped in planting 307 saplings in the cremation ground of the same village.