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Vanita Yadav

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Doctor Vanita Yadav

 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5237-1186

Accepting HDR Candidates

Available HDR projects

Currently inviting - Applications from PhD applicants on international trade and Agribusiness.    Other Areas (ongoing) - Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Business Models.

20072026

Research activity per year

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Biography

Dr Vanita Yadav is a Senior Fellow at the Urban Transformations Research Centre and a senior academic staff member supervising PhDs and teaching in the School of Business at Western Sydney University. Her expertise spans innovation, entrepreneurship, business models, strategic management, sustainability, and governance, with a strong emphasis on transdisciplinary and impact-driven research.
 
Dr Vanita is the founder and leader of the AgriMaitri Initiative, a flagship Australia–India platform supported through the Australian Government's CAIR Maitri grants that brings together government, industry, research, and farmer organisations to transform agribusiness collaboration, innovation, and sustainable economic development.
 
She brings over 15 years of international academic and research experience across Australia, the United States, and India. She is a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship, through which she undertook research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), focusing on sustainability-driven entrepreneurship and innovation. She has also been a Research Affiliate at the South Asia Institute, Harvard University, contributing to scholarship in innovation management.

Her research portfolio includes leadership and collaboration on major interdisciplinary and international projects funded by bodies such as the Australian Government, the US State Department–Fulbright Foundation, the Ministry of Rural Development (Government of India), the Indian Council of Social Science Research, and others.

Dr Vanita has extensive academic leadership experience. She has served as Discipline Leader for Management and Innovation at the School of Business and Law, Central Queensland University, as well as the founding leader of a Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Strategy and Policy Area Chairperson at the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) in India.

At Western Sydney University, her research examines critical contemporary challenges at the intersection of business, agribusiness, innovation, governance, and sustainable development. This includes work on innovation management, entrepreneurship, international trade, agribusiness, multi-stakeholder governance of climate-related challenges (such as urban heat and housing), strategies for enhancing and adopting green solutions, and regenerative business models.

Dr Vanita has produced over 50 scholarly outputs, including award-winning publications and Best Paper Awards. She supervises doctoral candidates in the business area, serves on editorial boards, and serves as a keynote speaker and expert panellist at international forums.

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Research keywords

  • Innovation
  • Strategy
  • Entrepreneurship
  • sustainability

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
    SDG 2 Zero Hunger
  2. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education
  3. SDG 5 - Gender Equality
    SDG 5 Gender Equality
  4. SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
    SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
  5. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  6. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  7. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  8. SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
    SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
  9. SDG 13 - Climate Action
    SDG 13 Climate Action
  10. SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
    SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

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