Education:
PhD -  University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 2016, School of Environment and Sustainability
MA Thesis - Monmouth University, USA, 2010, Criminology
MSS Thesis -  Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh, 2002, Sociology
BSS Honors -  Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh, 2000, Sociology

Current Academic Position:                                        

• Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Community Disaster Research at the Indigenous Studies, Department of Humanities at Mount Royal University, Canada

Former Academic Position:

• Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (JSGS) University of Regina, Canada

• Global Institute for Water Security, at the School of Environment and Sustainability University of Saskatchewan, Canada
• Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC), USA

Current Research Interests:

• Community-based Disaster Research
• Anti-racist Perspectives on Climate Change
• Community Resilience
• Indigenous Environmental Sustainability
• Indigenous and Western Science Integration
• Indigenous Water, Energy, and Water Management
• Food Sovereignty in Northern Communities

 Current Teaching Interests:

• Community Disaster Research
• Responsibility for Decolonization and Reconciliation,
• Cross-Cultural Research Methodology and Methods
• Indigenous Governance,
• Community Engagement,
• Critical Perspectives on Environmental Reconciliation.

Selected Publications:

• Datta, R. (2020). Land-Water Management and Sustainability in Bangladesh: Indigenous Practices in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. London: Routledge.

Ed. Books

• Datta, R. (Ed.), (2021). Indigenous Reconciliation and Decolonization: Responsibility, Social Justice and Community Engagement. NY: Routledge.
• Datta, R. (Ed.), (2020). Reconciliation in Practice: Cross-cultural Perspectives. Winnipeg, Canada: Fernwood Publishing.

Selected Referred Journals:

• Datta, R. (2018). Clarifying the process of land-based research, and the role of researcher(s) and participants. Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics. https://www.int-res.com/articles/esep2019/19/e019p001.pdf
• Datta, R. (2018) Rethinking environmental science education from indigenous knowledge perspectives: an experience with a Dene First Nation community, Environmental Education Research, 24:1, 50-66, DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2016.1219980
• Datta, R. (2017). Decolonizing both research and researcher, and its effectiveness in Indigenous research. Research Ethics. (1-24), http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1747016117733296
• Datta, R. (2017). Practice-based interdisciplinary approach and environmental research. Environments, 4(22); DOI: 10.3390/environments4010022         
• Datta, R. (2016). Community garden: A bridging program between formal and informal learning. Journal of Cogent Education, 3. doi/pdf/10.1080/2331186X.2016.1177154
• Anderson, V., Datta, R., Dyck, S., Kayira J., & McVittie, J. (2016). Meanings and implications of culture in sustainability education research. The Journal of Environmental Education, 47(1), 1-18, DOI: 10.1080/00958964.2015.105607
• Datta, R. (2016). How to practice posthumanism in environmental learning: Experiences with North American and South Asian Indigenous Communities? The IAFOR Journal of Education, 4(1). 52-67. To link to this article: http://iafor.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/IAFOR-Journal-of-Education.pdf
• Datta, R. (2015). A relational theoretical framework and meanings of land, nature, and sustainability for research with Indigenous communities. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, 20(1), 102-113. To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2013.818957.
• Datta, R., Khyang, U. N., Khyang, H. K. P., Kheyang, H. A. P., Khyang, M. C., & Chapola, J., (2015). Participatory action research and researcher’s responsibilities: An experience with Indigenous community. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 18(6). DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2014.927492.