Assistant Professor (JIBS), Assistant Director (CCFS)

Poulomi Bhadra is an Assistant Professor of Forensic Science, Criminology & Criminal Psychology at Jindal Institute of Behavioural Sciences. In 2020, she founded the Centre for Criminology and Forensic Studies (CCFS) at JGU. Prior to joining JGU, she has worked with the Natural History Museum, London and the London Metropolitan Police on research in forensic entomology. She is presently a member of the South Asian Society of Victimology and Criminology, the International Society for Criminology, the European Society for Criminology and the Chartered Society of Forensic Science, UK. Her research interests are built on an interdisciplinary profile predominantly focused on the areas of evidentiary literacy and evidence conducted within the framework of behavioural science and forensic criminology. Her current research focuses on the following themes: transitional justice and the role of evidence; interdisciplinary pedagogy and curriculum; decolonizing criminology; online hate speech and cyber phenomena, and the role of media in shaping global and political narratives, including but not limited to individual and State crimes. She is also part a European COST Action CA18228 Working group analysing the relationship between States and international criminal justice, and the engagement of those countries to international criminal justice institutions. She is also working collaboratively with NGOs and Indian prisons to conducting impact surveys on existing assistance programs, their scalability and policy relevance. Additionally, she also works on collaborative projects on cultural policies, art crimes and art laws. She has published three editorial books – Criminal Psychology and the Criminal Justice System in India and Beyond (2021), Refugee Jurisprudence and Criminal Justice (2020), Crime and Criminal Law Perspectives on Global Migration (2019); and several chapters focused on forensics, law, criminology and psychology. She is currently serving as a Mentor & Project Expert (Criminology) for the Challenges Abroad programme (UK and Australia) since 2021, where she supervises undergraduate students from Australia on short-term projects in India. Additionally, she has supervised various projects with researchers from Jagiellonian University, Poland, Maharashtra National Law University and Ashoka University, India.