Deepika specializes in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and is curious about informal education spaces, especially outdoor and digital spaces, and their role in contextual learning environments. She has designed MOOCs on Sustainable Development for students and educators of Business at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. She also studies the impact of critical place pedagogy in Lavender Hill, South Africa through a hiking project for children growing up at risk of violence. Before that, she did her master's at the Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar. For her master's thesis, she studied the impact of ecotourism on livelihoods in a fragile migratory bird ecosystem in the Indian state of Odisha. She was also a global scholar in the Mentoring Program for Education for Sustainable Development by Engagement Global, Germany in 2019.