Apat, B. and Swain, P. (2023). Precarity in the lives of contract teachers: A qualitative study from Odisha, India. Frontiers in Education 8:1043557. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2023.1043557

Rath, S. and Swain, P. (2022). Narrating Waste Chronicles Through Urban Ethnography: A Tale of Bhubaneswar. Urbanities-Journal of Urban Ethnography, 12(2),46-60. https://www.anthrojournal-urbanities.com/vol-12-no-2-november-2022/

Rath, S. and Swain, P. (2022). Understanding Waste: Social perceptions of the city dwellers of Bhubaneswar, Odisha. In Dwivedi, A. (Ed). Waste Management, Sanitation and Society, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (in production)

Rout, P. P., Mathur, A., & Swain, P. (2022). Pandemic rendering the transgender people more vulnerable, as if it was not already enough: A qualitative exploration from Odisha, India. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/chzs2

Rath, S. and Swain, P. (2022). The interface between political ecology and actor-network theory: Exploring the reality of waste. Review of Development and Change. https://doi.org/10.1177/09722661221122553

Nayak, M. and Swain, P. (2022). Human-elephant Interaction: Community perspectives on conflict mitigation and conservation mechanisms. J. Public Aff.  http://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2820

Apat, B and Swain, P. (2022). Inept and Indifferent? Self-understanding of early career teachers of government schools in the Indian state of Odisha. Education Research International.  https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/1269847

Nayak, M. and Swain, P. (2021). Perceptions through Artwork: Children’s Understanding of Elephants and Human-Elephant Interactions in Balasore, India, Human Dimensions of Wildlife. 27:6, 592-601. https://doi.org/10.1080/10871209.2021.1985659

Mohanty, Sital, Sahoo, Subhasis and Swain, Pranay (2021). Living with Barren Truths: A Tale of Triumphalism and Tribulations of a Technology. Journal of Human Values. 27(3), 234-246.  https://doi.org/10.1177/09716858211015929

Nayak, M. and Swain, P. (2020). From Fear to Festivity: Multi-stakeholder Perspectives on Human-Elephant Conflict and Coexistence in India, J. Public Aff., 22(2), e2496. https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2496

Swain, P. K. (2020). “Desperate Measures at Desperate Times: A case study of Odisha Addressing the Ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic”. In Sikarwar, A.P. & Yadav, B.C. (eds). Recent Trends in Global COVID-19 Pandemic, Agra: Shriyanshi Prakashan, 85-104

Nayak, Medha and Swain, Pranaya (2020). Pachyderms through Pencil: Children’s Perception and Understanding of Human-Elephant Conflict and Coexistence. SageSubmissions. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.31124/advance.12361484.v1

Swain, Pranaya (2020): Reorientation of State Policies to Combat COVID-19: A Rapid Assessment of an India State Exerting Social Control Measures. SageSubmissions. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.31124/advance.12345806.v2

Swain, Pranaya, and Medha Nayak. (2020). From Fear to Festivity: Multi-stakeholder Perspectives on Human-elephant Conflict and Coexistence in India. SocArXiv, doi:10.31235/osf.io/mv4jc

Swain, P.K. (2019), “Domestication of Jagannath Temple rituals in Odia Households: A Sociological Understanding of the Pantheism”, in Bonding  with the Lord: Jagannath, Popular Culture and Community Formation, Eds Jyotirmaya Tripathy and Uwe Skoda, Bloomsbury Publishing, New Delhi, pp 111-134

Swain, P.K.& Nayak, M. (2017), Involuntary Displacement and Dispossession: Could The Key Social Actors Do Things Differently?, Research Process, 56(2), pp 1-18

Swain, P.K.& Nayak, M. (2016), Attaining the SDGs: A Status Check of Water and Sanitation in Rural Odisha, Proceedings of Odisha Environment Congress-2016, pp. 216-224

Swain, P.K. & Ray, S. P. (2015). State Intervention in Epidemic Prevention: the Case of Bird-flu Out-break in India, International Journal of Management and Social Sciences Research, IV(12). (ISSN: 2319 – 4421)

Swain, P.K . (2015). Water Contamination and Health Concerns: Exploring Appropriate Technology to trim down the Predicaments in Odisha, Proceedings of Odisha Environment Congress-2015, pp. 216-223

Swain, P.K . (2014) Entrepreneurship in Social Sector: Looking at the Definitional Aspects through ITC E-choupal and Bakul Foundation, International Journal of Business, Management and Social Sciences, IV(3), 35-40 (ISSN: 2249-7463)

Swain, P.K. & Ray, S. P. (2013). Social welfare through guaranteed wage employment: experience of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in an Indian state, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy (Taylor& Francis), 29(1), 79-90 (ISSN: 2169-9763). DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/21699763.2013.809665

Swain, P.K., Kumar, C. and Rajkumar, C. P., Corporate Farming vis-a-vis Contract Farming in India: A Critical Perspective, International Journal of Management and Social Sciences Research, 1(3), 60-70, Dec 2012 (ISSN: 2319 – 4421)

Swain, P.K. and Nayak, A.P., Policy, Proactiveness and Programme Implementation: A Deep Dive into the State Initiatives in Implementing RCFCE Act in Orissa, Conference Proceeding, Vol-II, pp 118-125, International Conference on Public Policy and Governance 2012, 04-06,September, 2012, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Swain, P.K., “Understanding the INGO Phenomenon: Theoretical Perspectives”, Bangladesh Sociological Studies, 3(2), 124-152, 2011 (ISSN:1815-2163)

Swain, P.K., International NGOs in Development Landscape of India, VDM Publishing House, Germany, 2010 (ISBN: 978-3-639-29001-1)

Swain, P. K. and Baldeep Singh, “Financial Inclusion of Rural Markets: Developing the Right Framework for Indian Scenario”, in     Finding Pathways: Social Inclusion in Rural Development, Eds. Smita Premchander, Sudin K and Peter Reid, Books for Change, Bangalore, 2009, pp: 248-275

Swain, P.K., Pinching the INGO Phenomenon: Putting Perspectives into Practice, WPS No. 637/April 2009, Working Paper Series, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata

Swain, P. K. and Baldeep Singh, Financial Inclusion of Rural Markets: Understanding the Current Indian Framework, WPS No. 630/October 2008, Working Paper Series, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata.

Swain, P. K.,  Directory of Organizations in Rural Development, Vol. XI, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, 2008

Swain, P. K., Changes in Society, Culture and Technology and the Consequent Impact on Human Capital, Compendium, Seminar on HRD and Man Management in Changing Environment in the Indian Army, Army AD College, Oct 2007: 16-22

Swain, P. K. and Dave Manningsmith, PC Market Overview, CMG Market Research and Insights, Windows Client Research, Microsoft Corp., March 2007

Swain, P. K. and Dave Manningsmith, PC Market Overview, CMG Market Research and Insights, Windows Client Research, Microsoft Corp., January 2007

Swain, P. K. and Dave Manningsmith, Home Networking: What’s in it for Microsoft?- Situational Analysis, CMG Market Research and Insights, Windows Client Research, Microsoft Corp., March, 2007

Swain, P. K. and Dave Manningsmith, PC Market Overview, CMG Market Research and Insights, Windows Client Research, Microsoft Corp., October 2006

Swain, P. K., International NGOs (INGOs) in Developing Countries: An Indian Experience, proceedings of International Conference entitled  “Social Values and Social Policies”, 2002, by the European Social Policy Research Network (ESPRN), Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands