Our team

• Arjun Kharel

  Research Coordinator

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  Arjun Kharel holds both a PhD and a master’s in Sociology from Kansas State University, USA. He also completed a master’s in English and a bachelor’s in English and Political Science from Tribhuvan University. For his doctoral dissertation, he explored how/whether women’s participation in international labour migration restructures the dominant discourse on female migration in Nepal. More >

• Bhimkala Limbu

  Senior Research Associate

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  Bhim Kala Limbu holds a master’s in Anthropology from Tribhuvan University, and a bachelor’s in English and Sociology from Mahendra Multiple Campus, Dharan, Nepal. She is involved in research relating to migration, labour, and gender, among others. Bhim Kala has extensive field experience and has previously worked as field researcher for the Centre for Economic Development and Administration, Tribhuvan University, and as field surveyor for the Nepal Centre for Contemporary Studies. Her research interests are migration, gender, and development issues. More >

• Binod Dulal

  Research Associate

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  Binod Dulal completed master’s in Sociology from the Central Department of Sociology at Tribhuvan University, and has specialisation in gender and development studies. He also completed his bachelor’s in Sociology from Tribhuvan University. Binod has recently been involved in research on migration and gender-based violence. More >

• Bipin Upadhyaya

  Statistician

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  Bipin Upadhyaya completed his master’s in Statistics from Tribhuvan University. His master’s dissertation studied the effect of major variables in the production of vegetables in Nepal by applying the Cobb-Douglas production function. More >

• Dogendra Tumsa

  Statistician

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  Dogendra Tumsa (Limbu) completed his master’s in Statistics from the Central Department of Statistics, Tribhuvan University. He has previously worked as a field supervisor, data entry operator, and enumerator on various projects carried out by the Nepal Academy of Science and Technology, Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation, and CARE Nepal. More >

• Jeevan Baniya

  Assistant Director and Researcher

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  Jeevan Baniya has an MA from GSIS Ajou University, South Korea, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Oslo, Norway.  He has been serving as a faculty member at Tribhuvan University where he teaches masters and PhD degree courses and supervises students in dissertation work. More >

• Manju Gurung

  Senior Research Associate

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  Manju Gurung holds master’s in Sociology from Tribhuvan University, and bachelor’s in Education from Maiya Devi Girls College, Bharatpur, Chitwan. She has conducted numerous research studies in the area of women and migration. She has also administered capacity-building training workshops for data enumerators to enable them to conduct quantitative surveys. More >

• Rajita Dhungana

  Senior Research Associate

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  Rajita Dhungana has a master’s in Development Studies from Kathmandu University. Prior to working at CESLAM, she worked at a non-government organisation in programmes related to migration and emergency relief response. After joining CESLAM, she has worked as a field researcher for women, work and violence, and women's migration projects. Her primary interests are in qualitative research studies, mostly in the sector of gender and migration. More >

• Ratna Kambang

  Senior Research Associate

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  Ratna Kumari Kambang completed her master's in Sociology from Tribhuvan University. She has extensive research experience in a wide range of topics including labour migration, disaster, and gender. Prior to joining CESLAM, she worked as field researcher for the Social Inclusion Atlas and Ethnographic Profiles project and as a field research supervisor on the School to Work Transition Survey (2013) at the Centre for Economic Development and Administration, Tribhuvan University. Her research interests include gender and development, quantitative research methods, and internal and international labour migration.  More >

• Sadikshya Bhattarai

  Senior Research Associate

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  Sadikshya Bhattarai holds a master’s in Forest and Nature Management from University of Copenhagen, Denmark. As part of her studies, she conducted comparative research on household and intra-household approach for quantifying household income in rural Chitwan in Nepal. Her primary interest is in qualitative and quantitative research methods in natural resources, rural livelihoods, and gender studies. More >

• Shalini Gupta

  Research Associate

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  Shalini Gupta has a keen interest in issues of accountability in governance in Nepal. At CESLAM, she is currently engaged in research focusing on agriculture and labour migration, as well as educational migration from Nepal. She is also the Managing Editor of the Social Science Baha Newsletter (bi-monthly). She has previously conducted research on entrepreneurship, youth employment, and evidence-based policy-making. More >

• Sudeshna Thapa

  Senior Research Associate

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  Sudeshna Thapa is a human rights lawyer and holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from Lund University, Sweden. Her area of interest and specialisation include international migration and labour laws. She has previously worked as research assistant to the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Toxics. As part of her responsibilities, she was involved in research and writing on the human rights implications of exposure to toxic and hazardous substances on particular groups, such as workers and indigenous communities. More >