Kaushal Sapkota (hear my name) a Doctoral Candidate (ABD) of Planning and Public Affairs at the School of Planning, Public Policy, and Management (PPPM) at the University of Oregon (UO) (USA). His doctoral thesis (which he plans to defend soon) focuses on the volunteering and prosocial behavior of university students in Nepal. He joined as a Visiting Researcher at the Chair of Public and Nonprofit Management at the University of Freiburg's Institute for Economics and Behavioral Sciences (Germany).
Kaushal is also interested in learning about the Nepali diaspora, nonprofit management, higher education, nonprofit management education, and teaching. Kaushal's work focuses on leveraging the power of higher education and knowledge in empowering mission-driven social impact initiatives. He is a mixed-/multi-method researcher with a pragmatist worldview towards research. At the University of Freiburg, Kaushal is involved in conducting a scoping review on race and ethnicity in organizational change and teaching an undergraduate seminar on Governance and Board Leadership for Nonprofit Organizations. Along with teaching and research, Kaushal actively prioritizes voluntary service to academia and nonprofit organizations.
Kaushal is from Kathmandu, Nepal. He is currently based in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. He likes photography, loves traveling, appreciates the arts (theatre, film, and/or any form of expression), and cares deeply about diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice. Kaushal is a 2024 Oregon Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (Sylff) Graduate Fellow and an Erasmus Mundus Scholar (2019-2021). You can find more/updated information about him on his personal website (www.kaushalsapkota.com) and connect with him by writing to kaushal.sapkota@vwl.uni-freiburg.de.
