Dr. P. Badhariya Beegum is the Head of the Department of Sociology at Farook College (Autonomous) Kozhikode. She is also the Chairperson of the Board of Studies (BOS) in Sociology in the college and a member of the BOS in Sociology at the University of Calicut. Apart from these, she serves positions at several other levels, such as the Chairperson of the Women Cell in the college and editorial member of the Journal ‘Social Orbit.’ She has also served as an executive member of the Kerala Sociological Society.

Joined as Assistant  Professor of Sociology in 2012, Badhariya Beegum finished her Ph.D. in 2021 from the Kannur University. Her Ph.D. and teaching interests cover topics such as Gender, religion and Society, and Sociology of/and Entrepreneurship, and and Sociology of environment. Her courses, teaching at the undergraduate level, include Invitation to Sociology, Research Methods in Sociology, Sociological Theory, Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Keralam, Sociology of India, and Life Skills education. Apart from these, she also supervises the research projects of final-year undergraduate students of the department.