Barnali Chakraborty
Assistant Professor
Barnali Chakraborty completed her graduation in 2018 from Gauhati University and pursued Master of Planning with a specialization in Urban Planning from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. She undertook her doctoral research at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and was awarded the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, for the potential real-time impact of her doctoral work.
She was a Visiting Lecturer at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati, from 2022 to 2025, where she conducted capacity-building workshops and short-term courses on the applications of GIS and Remote Sensing for postgraduate students. She has also worked as an Assistant Professor at the Royal School of Architecture, Assam Royal Global University. With over five years of mentoring and research experience, her work lies at the intersection of urban planning and the evolving socio-spatial dynamics of urban centres.
Expertise
- Design Thinking
- Spatial Cognition
- Urban Planning
- Climate Responsive Architecture
- Disaster Management
Recognition and Awards
- Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship, awarded by the Ministry of Education, Government of India
- Student Science Ambassador Award, jointly awarded by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Oracle Education Foundation
- Technology in Education Award, jointly awarded by the Intel Education Foundation and Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
Publications
- Assessing the role of urban reform policy in fostering healthy cities: A discourse on Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission of India (2025)
- Identification of factors affecting urban quality of life in historic city centres: The case of Dighalipukhuri, Guwahati, India (2025)
- Spatial characterization of blighted urban areas using space syntax analysis: The case of historic city centre of Kolkata, India (2024)
- A Composite Urban Blight Identification and Evaluation Index (CUBIE): A systems-driven approach based on empirical evidence from Kolkata, India (2024)
- A fuzzy approach for critical quality assessment of neighbourhood risk factors in historic city centres: Empirical evidence from Kolkata, India. 60th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Siena, Italy (2024)
- Revisiting the notion of urban blight in the context of Global South: A discursive approach. 60th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Siena, Italy (2024)
- A place-based analysis of socio-spatial causes of urban decline and their impact on residents’ quality of life. 58th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Brussels, Belgium (2022)
