Ranjini is completing her PhD at CSCS on the topic titled 'The Experience of the 'Intimate' in Contemporary Keralam: Towards an Understanding of Erotic' under the supervision of Dr. Anup Dhar. She has presented aspects of this work at several conferences, includingThe Loving Conqueror: Surveillance, Psychologization and Gendering in Contemporary Kerala, International Conference on ‘ Masculinities in Asia’, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore. 2011, Psychobiography: Analytic Dialogue as Knowledge, workshop  at the School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi (AUD) in  2010, snd Intimate Citizenship, presentation at the workshop on Rethinking Culture & Development: Feminist Crossings at Lataguri, West Bengal organized by School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. 2009.