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Senior Research Fellow, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University

Dr Vanita Yadav is a Senior Research Fellow at the Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University. She specialises in innovation management, entrepreneurship, sustainable business, strategy and governance. She has more than 12 years of diverse experience in research and academia spanning multiple countries like Australia, the USA and India. Dr Vanita is a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Postdoctoral Research fellowship award for research in entrepreneurship and sustainable development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. She was also a research affiliate at the South Asia Institute, Harvard University for her work on Innovation Management. She has led and worked on interdisciplinary international and national research projects and grants. Dr Vanita has also held many leadership positions, like Discipline Leader of Management and Innovation discipline at the School of Business & Law, Central Queensland University Australia, and founding leader of a Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Strategy & Policy area chairperson at IRMA India.

At Western Sydney University, Dr Vanita is currently working on research projects examining issues of sustainability and regeneration for businesses, multi-stakeholder governance for climate challenges (like heat and housing), sustainable strategies for enhancing urban green spaces, and examining gender issues, equity and diversity in businesses. She has 50+ research publication outputs including Best Paper Awards, supervises PhDs, serves on editorial boards, and speaks at international events as a keynote speaker and expert panelist.

Experience

  • 2023–present
    Senior Research Fellow, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University, Australia
  • 2019–2023
    Discipline Lead- Innovation & Management and Lecturer Entrepreneurship, Central Queensland University, Australia
  • 2013–2017
    Area Chairperson- Strategy & Policy and Assistant Professor, Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), India
  • 2012–2013
    Research Affiliate Fellow, South Asia Institute, Harvard University, USA

Education

  • 2021 
    Central Queensland University, Australia, Graduate Certificate in Tertiary and Adult Education
  • 2013 
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Award
  • 2009 
    Management Development Institute (MDI), PhD- Business

Grants and Contracts

  • 2017
    Gender and Entrepreneurship
    Role:
    Co-Lead Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Indian Council of Social Science Research
  • 2012
    Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development: Building a better world
    Role:
    Lead- Principal Researcher
    Funding Source:
    Fulbright Commission

Professional Memberships

  • Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM)
  • Australian Fulbright Alumni Association
  • Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), Western Sydney University

Research Areas

  • Entrepreneurship (150304)
  • Innovation And Technology Management (150307)
  • Business And Management (1503)
  • Environmental Science And Management (0502)

Honours

Fulbright Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA