Research Output per year
Research Output per year
Personal profile
Research interests
Uttaran Dutta studies creative ways to address development, health and social disparity issues. His research focuses on sustainable development and social change in marginalized communities, analyzing the importance of culture, communication, design and innovation in transforming the lives of people who are socially, politically and economically poor. In all his work, local participants are the key forces in identifying and developing cost-effective solutions using local resources.
In one project, Dr. Dutta is developing a computer application for illiterate people in rural India to access useful information regarding local weather, employment, education, and other basic services such as healthcare. In another project, he collaborated with local people to construct a mini-hospital, library-cum-museum and a protection-wall to save sacred environmental resources in remote indigenous villages in eastern India.
Additionally, he researches the folk-culture and indigenous knowledge of the underserved to document and understand alternate ways of viewing the world.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Purdue University
… → 2013
M.Des, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
External positions
Arizona State University
Arizona State University
Arizona State University
Research interests
- Rural
- visual communication design
- Human values
- Folk
- social innovation
- Intercultural Communication
- India
- Subaltern
- health communication
- indigenous
- ICT for Development
- action research
- Development Communication
- Social change
- ethnography
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Research Output
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Indigenous Health Organizing at the Margins: Creating Access to Health by Building Health Infrastructure
Dutta, U., Aug 23 2020, In: Health Communication. 35, 10, p. 1177-1189 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The road ahead
Dutta, U. & Ghosh, M., Jan 1 2020, Springer Geography. Springer, p. 563-568 6 p. (Springer Geography).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Addressing Contextual Challenges in Underserved Indigenous Spaces of the Global South: In Search of an Approach Based on Unlearning, Co-Learning, and Relearning
Dutta, U., Jan 1 2019, In: International Journal of Qualitative Methods. 18Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Conducting Ethnographic Research in Low Literate, Economically Weak Underserved Spaces: An Introduction to Iconic Legisigns-Guided Interviewing (ILGI)
Dutta, U., Jun 7 2019, In: International Journal of Qualitative Methods. 18Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Design engagements at the margins of the global South: De-centering the "expert" within me
Dutta, U., Oct 1 2019, In: Sustainability (Switzerland). 11, 20, 5675.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access1 Scopus citations
Projects
- 2 Finished
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Asia Mediated: Interdisciplinary Curriculum Innovation at Arizona State University
Rush, J., Brown, C., Codell, J., Schober, J., Henn, A., Chhabra, D., Chen, H., Cheong, P., Dutta, U., Cho, S., Kwon, K., Chadha, M. & Hedberg, W.
US Department of Education (DOEd)
10/1/16 → 9/30/19
Project: Research project
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Feed the Future Egypt Food Security and Agribusiness
Fowler, J., Manfredo, M., Dutta, U. & Englin, J.
US Agency for International Development (USAID)
7/20/15 → 3/4/20
Project: Research project