: pbhadra@jgu.edu.in

Research Interests

Forensic criminology,  criminal psychology, crime and media studies, forensic entomology, art crimes, cultural policies, art market studies (Global South and East)

Poulomi Bhadra

Assistant Professor, JIBS & Assistant Director, IDEAS

P.G. Dip. Criminology & Criminal Psychology (University of Essex, UK);
M.Sc. Forensic Science (King's College London, UK);
M.Sc. Biotechnology (St. Xavier's College, Kolkata)

Poulomi Bhadra is an Assistant Professor in forensic science, criminology and forensic psychology, and a Fellow at the Centre for India Australia Studies (CIAS). She founded the Centre for Criminology and Forensic Studies (CCFS) at JGU in January 2020. 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 Academic Council of United Nation Systems, the European Society for Criminology and the Chartered Society of Forensic Science, UK.

Research Experience

Her research interests are built on an interdisciplinary profile predominantly focused on the areas of psychology, science and criminology. Her current research focuses on the following themes: transitional justice and the role of evidence; interdisciplinary pedagogy and curriculum; decolonizing criminology; and 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 has also worked collaboratively with NGOs and Indian prisons to strategize on needs assessment programs and plan their scalability and policy relevance. Additionally, she also works on collaborative projects on cultural policies, art crimes and art laws.

She is a member on the International Advisory Board of the Criminology and Criminal Law Review Journal, International Society for Projects in Education and Research and a reviewer for academic publications such as Forensic Science International (Elsevier Science Direct), Journal of Forensic Psychology Research and Practice (Routledge), International Journal of Evidence & Proof (Sage) and Jindal Global Law Review (Springer). In 2023, she was also the co-director to the ACUNS General Workshop on “Blueprints for Local and Global Responses to Worldwide Challenges: Understanding the Role of the United Nations in Capacity Building.”

She also served as a member of the JGLS Doctoral Research Advisory Committee (2019-2021) and has served as a Mentor & Project Expert (Criminology) for the Challenges Abroad programme (UK and Australia) from 2021-23, where she supervised 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 and been a technical mentor for Project EduAccess since 2023.

Teaching Experience

She has 10 years of teaching experience and has offered the following courses at undergraduate and graduate level: forensic science, applied forensic psychology, crime and media studies, complex investigations and organized crimes, blood antiquities and archaeopolitics, cultural policies and the art market. She has also conducted short study courses (summer/winter schools, certificate programs) as well as conceived and instructed in training programs for career professionals. Besides her regular teaching engagements, she has been regularly invited as a resource person for various guest lectures, public talks and conferences.

Publications

Journal Publications

    1. Bhadra, P., Aggarwal, K. (2022). Judicial Gatekeeping of Scientific Evidence and Experts in Criminal Adjudications. Delhi Law Review, Vol 36.

    2. Bhadra P., Hall M. J., Hart A.J. (2014) Factors affecting accessibility to blowflies of bodies disposed in suitcases. Forensic Science International, Vol 239, 62-72

    3. Ray S., Datta R., Bhadra P., Chaudhuri B., Mitra A. K. (2012) Bacillus aryabhattai found in the Indian subcontinent. Bioscience Discovery 3(1), 138-145

Books
  1. Sahni S. P., Bhadra P. (2021) Criminal Psychology and the Criminal Justice System in India and Beyond.  Springer Publications, Singapore

  2. Sahni S.,  Bhadra P. (2020) Refugee Jurisprudence and Criminal Justice. New Delhi, India, Har-Anand Publications

  3. Sahni S., Bhadra P. (2019) Crime and Criminal Law Perspectives on Global Migration. New Delhi, India, Har-Anand Publications

Book Chapters

  1. Bhadra P. (2021). Are Evidences Impartial? Cognitive Biases in Forensic Analysis in (Eds. S. P. Sahni, P. Bhadra) Criminal Psychology and the Criminal Justice System in India and Beyond. (Springer Singapore)

  2. Bhadra P., Nair V. V. (2021). Investigative Psychology through a Forensic Victimology Perspective in (Eds. S. P. Sahni, P. Bhadra) Criminal Psychology and the Criminal Justice System in India and Beyond. (Springer Singapore)

  3. Bhadra P., Sahni S. P. (2020) Status of Asylum Seekers in the Criminal Justice System: Case Study from India in Refugee Jurisprudence and Criminal Justice. Har-Anand Publications, New Delhi, India

  4. Nair V.V., Bhadra P., Sahni S. P. (2019). Status of Migrants, Refugees and Criminal Law in India in Crime and Criminal Law Perspectives on Global Migration. Har-Anand Publications, New Delhi, India

Reports

    1. Bhadra, P. (2023) States and International Criminal Justice: COST CA18228 Scoping Survey (version 2), 2020-2023. University of Edinburgh. School of Law. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7536.