praveennaikbellampalli@gmail.com
Dr. Praveen Naik Bellampalli is an Assistant Professor at PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore. He is a rural development scholar with expertise in Rural Studies, Tribal Studies, Migration, Livelihoods, and Rural Entrepreneurship. He holds a PhD in Rural Development from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), focusing on migration, agrarian distress, and livelihood vulnerabilities in drought-prone regions of India. He is a recipient of the National Fellowship for Higher Education (Government of India) and a Gold Medalist at the MPhil level.
He has an interdisciplinary academic background with MPhil degrees from TISS and Gandhigram Rural Institute, and an MSW from the Central University of Karnataka. He has qualified UGC-NET and KSET in Social Work and has over three years of teaching, research, and field experience, including his tenure at the Central University of Karnataka.
Dr. Bellampalli has published in reputed Scopus and Web of Science-indexed journals and presented at international conferences in Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines, supported by an ICSSR Travel Grant. He is currently the Principal Investigator of a funded project on social security and livelihoods of rural women in Coimbatore and actively contributes to research, teaching, and policy-oriented work.