Editorial

Dr. Jeevan Sharma joined the Social and Political Science in September 2011. Prior to this, he worked as a Senior Researcher and Assistant Professor at Feinstein International Center at Tufts University (Boston) where he conducted extensive fieldwork on Maoist insurgency, labour migration and social change in western Nepal, and taught graduate courses at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. He is a visiting professor of anthropology at Nepal School of Social Sciences and Humanities (Kathmandu). He has a wide range of interest in academic as well as policy research. Sharma has worked as a consultant for a number of development agencies (including DFID, World Bank, USAID, Care, Save the Children and FHI among others) working in South Asia. Between July 2007 and January 2009, he worked as Monitoring and Evaluation officer at Save the Children UK. His current areas of research include marginal areas in South Asia, armed conflict and social transformation, labor mobility, border-crossing, transnationalism, livelihoods adaptation, international aid policy and practice, research collaboration and governance, and socio-cultural knowledge and planning. Over the last 2 years, he has secured several grants to pursue a number of collaborative research projects.