Ranjan Datta

Ranjan Datta, PhD, is the Canada Research Chair in Community Disaster Research in the Department of Humanities at Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He serves as a Senior Scientist for both the International Science Council (ISC) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and is a Senior Research Fellow with the Earth System Governance Research Network at Utrecht University, Netherlands. Ranjan's research interests include community-led disaster research, advancing anti-racist and decolonial methodologies, critical climate crisis resilience studies, and cross-cultural community-engaged research. He is committed to assuming responsibilities in anti-racist scholarship and decolonial practices within disaster and climate studies. He has made significant contributions to academic discourse, authoring over 95 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. His literary contributions also include the authorship of four books and the editing of five scholarly volumes. Additionally, he has led a special issue in an academic journal focused on decolonial research, traditional story-sharing, Indigenist community-based participatory action research, and the complexities of Indigenous land, water, and sustainability.