Subhanjan Sengupta, Ph.D.
Academy of Finland PostDoc
University Lecturer
Principal Investigator, Project MILESTONE
Co-Investigator, Project CESMI
Business School, University of Eastern Finland
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Bio
Bio
Dr. Subhanjan Sengupta works at the Business School, University of Eastern Finland (UEF), as an Academy of Finland PostDoc and Principal Investigator of Project MILESTONE (Making Circular Economy Socially Inclusive through Entrepreneurship), funded by the Academy of Finland, and collaborated between UEF Business School, ESADE Business School, and JKU Linz.
Additionally, he is also a Co-Investigator of Project CESMI (Circular Economy Solutions for Circular Economy Solutions for Microplastics: Indo-Finnish Scientific Collaboration for Innovation (UEF CESMI), funded by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, and collaborated between UEF Business School, University of Tampere, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, and IIT Dharwad.
Additionally, he is also a Lecturer in the Sustainability Leadership masters degree programme at the Business School. He also teaches Strategic Management, and Business Perspectives in Circular Economy.
He has a keen interest in finding out how entrepreneurship for sustainable development integrates social and environmental sustainability. With that interest, his current research is about the making of a socially inclusive circular economy through social and sustainable entrepreneurship and the role of business models in sustainability.
Prior to this, he has researched social entrepreneurship in rural settings, particularly on the social-market convergence, resource dependency, and ethics as practice. Occasionally, he also participates in multidisciplinary understandings related to his research by collaborating with specialists from other fields such as environmental sciences, biological sciences, sociology, and policy.
He has developed and taught courses to postgraduate students on basics of entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, responsible business, and strategic management. At the doctoral level, he has developed and taught courses on qualitative research methods.
Recognitions & Achievements
Recognitions & Achievements
2024 Invited Panelist for Panel Discussion on 'Impact Assessment in Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship' at International Conference on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Society, BML Munjal University, India
2023 Best Paper Award in International Conference on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Society, BML Munjal University, India
2022-2025 Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher Grant from the Research Council for Culture and Society, Academy of Finland
2020 Best Business Ethics Paper Award: Finalist in Social issues in Management Division, Academy of Management (AOM)
2020 Dean's Best Researcher Award, Birla Institute of Management Technology, India
2019 Jagdish Sheth Best PhD Thesis Award, Birla Institute of Management Technology, India
2018 EDUFI Fellowship, Finnish National Agency for Education, Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland.
2017 & 2018 Invited Examiner at the School of Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) India to evaluate elevator pitch practice sessions of fellow social entrepreneurs
2018 Invited Keynote Speaker on ‘Social Entrepreneurship in Alternative Politics’ at Centre for Peace and Sustainability, Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies, India
2018 The Case Centre Best Case Award, The Case Centre, ICMC 2018 (International Conference for Management Cases, 2018), Birla Institute of Management Technology, India
2018 Advisory Body Member of Teach For Green, a reputed social enterprise in India
News
News
• New India-Finland collaborative research project CESMI (Circular Economy Solutions for Microplastics: Indo-Finnish Scientific Collaboration for Innovation), funded by Ministry of Education and Culture (Finland), under the initiative of the bilateral cooperation - FICORE (Finnish India Consortia for Education and Research).
Project partners include University of Eastern Finland (UEF) , Tampere University , IIT Delhi , IIT Guwahati and IIT Dharwad.
The project is multidisciplinary, bringing researchers from environmental sciences, biological sciences, social sciences and business studies, to explore the role of science, society, business and non-business actors, in addressing challenges towards a plastic circular economy in general and microplastic contaminantion in particular.
• Awarded prestigious Academy of Finland research funding for a three-year ambitious Postdoctoral Research and international research mobility: https://www.aka.fi/en/about-us/whats-new/press-releases/2022/first-rate-early-career-researchers-granted-postdoctoral-researcher-funding-in-social-sciences-and-humanities-research/
• New podcast on ethics in entrepreneurship: https://entrepreneurship-erd.com/podcast/authors-36-subhanja-sengupta-hanna-lehtimaki-contextual-understanding-of-care-ethics-in-social-entrepreneurship/
• Interviewed and featured by Inkpothub Media, India’s first digital platform for communicating business and management research. Link: https://www.inkpothub.com/research-stories/the-doctoral-journey-builds-character-ft-dr-subhanjan-sengupta-bimtech/
• Kick-Off Meeting of Indo-UK research project TRANSSITioN held on 13th August 2019. Sponsored by STFC-GCRF, UK; led by University of Sheffield and STFC, 10 UK India partners. https://transsition.org
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