Sarada Prasanna Das’s research interests revolve around the environment, livelihood, and developmental state. His current research looks at the sociology and politics of environmental regulation and governance in India. He has previously studied politics of development, politics of the environment, and protest in India.

Currently, he works as a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Policy Research and a Visiting Fellow at IGPP. He has worked on various research projects with government bodies, universities, and other reputed research organisations including CUTS Institute for Regulation & competition, Basix India, Centre for Applied Sociology, Centre for Social Research, Jawaharlal Nehru University, NCERT, University of Oxford, UK and Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria.