| June 2025 | PhD Human Geography; University of Edinburgh, UK |
| June 2008 | MSc Environmental Sciences; University of Mumbai, India |
| June 2006 | BSc Biotechnology; University of Mumbai, India |
Brief Employment History
- 2020-2024: Tutor @ University of Edinburgh, UK; Tutoring on various postgraduate and undergraduate courses at the School of Geosciences. Courses like Environmental Governance and Policy, Energy and Climate, Professional skills for climate change. Work involved supporting course organiser in conducting sessions, leading group tutorials, formative and summative feedback for student assignments, Guest Lectures and managing the online learning platform (in case of online courses).
- 2014-2020: Social Scientist @ Advanced Centre for Water Resources Development and Management, India; Work involved: Conceptualising, leading, collaborating on projects aimed at groundwater management and governance on various themes like rural drinking water supply and security, participatory groundwater management, groundwater legislation across different geographies of India
Presentations in academic and non-academic conferences/seminars (selected)
- Joshi D. (2024): Letting go, holding onto- politics of excess water in Maharashtra, India in era of monsoon variability; paper presented in panel on Monsoonal Geographies of South Asia at Royal Geographical Society’s Annual Conference London
- Joshi D. (2024): Beyond the ‘water level’: entangled ontologies and epistemologies of groundwater monitoring in Maharashtra, India; seminar at Centre for Science, Knowledge and Policy at Edinburgh (SKAPE), University of Edinburgh
- Joshi D. (2023): Peeping down, looking forward: exploring knowledge(s) of groundwater governance in Maharashtra, India; paper presented at Centre for South Asian Studies organised South Asian Anthropocenes workshop, University of Edinburgh
- Joshi D (2022): Recognising ‘other’ knowledges of groundwater: Case from Maharashtra, India presented in ‘Valuing Groundwater (III) session: Ear to the Ground: community-based approaches to groundwater management’ organised at World Water Week 2022.
- Joshi D (2021): Situated knowledges, global discourses: Exploring the ‘neutral’ and ‘universal’ in groundwater governance presented in session Situated knowledges of water justice organised at Delft Socio hydrology Conference, Delft, Netherlands.
- Joshi D. (2019): Dependencies, vulnerabilities and changing practices of groundwater use and access in Maharashtra; Presented at Conference on Rural India 2019: Towards inclusion of the marginalised; organised by Vikasanvesh Foundation, Tata Trusts, Pune
- Joshi, D. (2017): Why are there seldom any conflicts over groundwater? – An analysis; Paper presented at Round Table on Water Management and Governance, organised by JTSDS, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
- Aslekar, U. and Joshi, D. (2015): Participatory groundwater management: an effective tool for groundwater management and strengthening drinking water security. Workshop on water conservation, water security and water quality under Jal Kranti Abhiyan, Central Groundwater Board, Nagpur
Awards and Certifications
Associate Fellowship of the Advance HE (formerly the Higher Education Academy) of the United Kingdom: Jan 2025
Royal Geographical Society’s Postgraduate Research Award-Dudley Stamp Memorial Award and Geographical Club Award for fieldwork: Feb 2022 (Ref: PRA 15.22; value: £2000)
Geographical Endowment Grant, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh: Aug 2021 (Value: £500)
University of Edinburgh’s Principal Career Development Scholarship and Edinburgh Global Research Scholarship (PhD): May 2020 (Value: £70,500 towards tuition/research costs & £48000 towards stipend)
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Netherlands’s Orange Knowledge Programme Fellowship for short course on Water and Environmental Policy Analysis 2019 (Value: €8500 towards tuition and subsistence)
Certificate for National Eligibility Test for Assistant Professor (Lectureship) in Environmental Sciences issued by University Grants Commission: Nov 2017
Certificate on ‘Hydrogeology in Watershed Management’ pertaining to Groundwater Management in India, organized, and conducted by Advanced Center for Water Resources Development and Management (ACWADAM) at Pune in July 2011
Other engagements
PhD course on ‘Emancipating Knowledges and socionatures: anticolonial and decolonisation debates 2024’ organised by University of Oslo, Norway from 20th to 23rd August 2024
Summer school on ‘Situating hydrological modelling’ organised by Iri-thesys centre at the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany in September 2023.
Participated in the first ever Groundwater Summit organised by UNESCO in Paris on 6-7-8 December 2022 as part of the International year for Groundwater
Supported Filmmakers for Documentary titled ‘Droughtlands’ as part of project ‘Chasing sustainability: tales from South Asia’ at University of Edinburgh 2022 (more here: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/chasing_sustainability/droughtlands-omkar-khandagale-and-aditya-thakkar/ )
Engaged in PhD Workshop- “Sustainable Development Research – an Interdisciplinary Chance or Challenge?” organised by Freie University Berlin in November 2021
Attended e-lecture series on Water governance theoretical perspectives organised by NEWAVE training network in Nov-Dec 2020
Selected as Stakeholder Engagement Lead for the Grassroots Field Exposure Session (GFES) organized by India-UK Water Centre (www.iukwc.org) in December 2019 on Agricultural Water Demand in West Bengal. (Report here: https://www.ceh.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2022-09/iukwc-grass-roots-GFES-1.pdf )
Groundwater and Beyond 