N. Jayaram is former Professor of Sociology at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and former National Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies. He is Visiting Professor at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru and Ambedkar University Delhi, and Visiting Research Mentor at Christ University, Bengaluru. Dr Jayaram is a member of the Association of Third World Studies, International Network on the Role of Universities in Developing Areas, Indian Sociological Society, and Comparative Education Society of India. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Comparative Family Studies, a Member of the Editorial Board of The Indian Journal of Social Work, Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, and Rajagiri Journal of Social Development. He was the Managing Editor of Sociological Bulletin (Journal of the Indian Sociological Society), the Editor of ICSSR Journal of Reviews and Abstracts: Sociology and Social Anthropology and was on the Editorial Board of the Caribbean Journal of Criminology and Social Psychology (Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago). He is the recipient of the Dr Paduru Gururaja Bhat Annual Award (2012) and ET Now Education Leadership Award (2013).
