Faculty Profile - University

Educational Qualification

Degree Name	Institute	Year of passing/awarded
Post Doc	International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)	2025 (opted not to pursue)
Ph.D	Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK)	2023
M. Phil.	Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK)	2014

Title of the Ph. D. Thesis

Title of the Ph. D. Thesis
UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY FERTILITY TRANSITION IN RURAL WEST BENGAL

Career Profile / Teaching Experience

Description of Experience
Guest Lecturer Midnapore College (Autonomous), West Bengal
Subject Counsellor Netaji Subhas Open University; Raja Narendralal Khan Women’s College, West Bengal
Guest Lecturer Rabindra Bharati University (RBU), West Bengal
Visiting Scientist, Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata (ISIK), West Bengal
Assistant Professor of Geography, CDOE, VU

Specialization/Research Area

Type (Specialization / Research Area / Areas of Interest)	Detailed Description
Field of Specialization	Fertility Outcomes, Development Studies, and Behavioral Dynamics
Research Area/ Areas of Interest	Fertility Transition and Family Dynamics, Reproductive Behaviour, Maternal and Child Health, Gender dynamics, Life-Course Analysis, Behavioural Approaches to Demography, Mental Health, and Urban dynamics.

Course/ Subject Taught

Course Name
Population Geography, Regional and Rural Geography, Urban Geography, Quantitative & Field-based Social Research Methods

Publications in Journal / Magazines / Newspaper

Title	Publication Type	Published in	Published on	Publisher's Name	Role	Details
Responsibility, social aspirations, and contemporary low fertility: a case study of rural West Bengal, India.	International	Asian Population Studies	Sep, 2023	Routledge	First Author	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Status of mental health among college and university students during first and second wave of COVID-19 outbreak in India: A cross-sectional study	International	Journal of Affective Disorders Reports	Apr, 2023	Elsevier	Co-Author	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Understanding contemporary fertility transition in rural West Bengal: A Critical Review.	National	Indian Journal of Landscape Systems and Ecological Studies: Population and Human Habitats	Jun, 2021	ILEE	Solo Author	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Rural–Urban Fertility Convergence, Differential Stopping Behavior, and Contraceptive Method Mix in West Bengal, India: A Spatiotemporal Analysis.	International	Journal of Family History	Apr, 2021	Sage Publications	First Author	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Factors Affecting in Maternal Care Utilization in Empowered Action Group (EAG) States of India: Evidences from Largest Sample Survey of India.	International	The Indian Journal of Anthropological Society	Jul, 2018	Anthropo. Soc.	First Author	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Declassification of Census Towns in West Bengal Empirical Evidence from Patuli, Bardhaman	International	Economic and Political Weekly	Jun, 2017	EPW	Co-Author	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Concentrated or Dispersed Urbanization: A Critical Analysis of Newly Emerged Census Towns of West Bengal in 2011, India	National	Journal of Geography and Regional Planning	Sep, 2015	Academic Journals	Co-Author	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Changing Patterns of Urbanization in West Bengal: An Analysis of the 2011 Census of India Data.	International	Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities	Feb, 2015	Asian Research Consortium	Co-Author	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:

Book Chapter Published

Title of Chapter	Title of the Book	Published by	Published on	Role	Details
Gender-Parity-Specific Fertility Decline in India: A Spatiotemporal Study.	Sexual and Reproductive Health of Women: Dimensions and Perspectives	Springer Nature	Jun, 2025	First Author	Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Decline in birth rate, maternal and child health.	Swastha o Somaj: Bisesh Sonkhya	Anustup	Mar, 2025	Co-Author	Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Factors affecting inequity in institutional delivery and choice of providers: the role of Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) and Community Health Workers (CHWs) in Bihar	Population, Health, and Health and Nutrition of Women and Children in Empowered Action Group States of India: Status & Progress.	Routledge publication.	Jun, 2023	First Author	Indexing: Article's Web Link:

Invited Lectures

Title	Organized By	Venue	Date
Rising Deprivation, economic uncertainty, and contemporary low fertility in an underdeveloped state of India	Population Research Institute (PRI), Family and Gender Working Group.	Pennsylvania State University	Apr, 2024

Membership of Learned Society

Title/Name of the Society
Active member of the Population Association of America (PAA)
Active member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)
Active member of Asian Population Association (APA)

Dr. Kakoli Das