PROJECTS
PROJECT 1
April -June 2023 National Consultant for Sexual Violence Research Initiative (South Africa): Deep-Dive Analysis into VAW and VAC in India.
Study the nature and prevalence of VAW/VAC in India, scoping analysis, and rapid reviews of existing datasets (DHS/NFHS-V and NCRB), scientific publications, published monitoring and evaluation reports, and conduct stakeholder interviews (KIIs). The study uses the Meshwork Approach for policy analysis, focusing on knowledge generated via interstices in methods, subject positions, roles, and evaluative criteria.
PROJECT 2
My other research is funded by the International Growth Centre (London School of Economics and Political Science). The study titled ‘Gender-Based Violence and Empowerment Indicators in Bihar: Scope for Evidence-Based Research and Policy. I was involved with intervention training of health care providers at Bihar’s major tertiary hospitals. The training is based on the Identification Referral to Improved Safety (University of Bristol and London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene) and Healthcare Responding to Violence and Abuse (IRIS/HERA) model developed by a multi-country team based in Brazil, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Palestine.
PROJECT 3
Consultant to Oxford Policy Management Group for a Proposal on Gender Mainstreaming and Budgeting in Sectoral Plans in the Indian States of Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Manipur.
PROJECT 4
I have completed a project ‘Digital Intimate Partner Violence in India: Towards an Integrated Socio-Legal and Data-Analytics Framework (DIGIpv)’ funded by Sheffield Hallam University (UK).
PROJECT 5
Consultant to International Research Centre for Women / UNICEF for a study titled ‘District Level Study on Child Marriage in India’. https://www.icrw.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/District-level-study-on-Child-Marriage-in-India.pdf
Research Funding,
Support and Dissemination
1
Co-Investigator for India for ‘Post-Pandemic Era’s Social Protection Systems for Poverty Reduction: Investigating Global, East Asian, and Taiwanese Welfare Regimes’, Principal Investigator Professor Julia Shu-Huah Wang 汪書華, National Taiwan University, Multi-Country Study. Funded by the International Outstanding Young Scholar Scheme, 2030 Cross-Generation Young Scholars Program, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan (formerly known as Ministry of Science and Technology) (2022-2025)
2
Yenepoya (Deemed to be University) Seed Grant (2022) awarded for a Study on ‘Adverse Childhood Experiences, Education and COVID-19: Improving Adolescents Well-being in Karnataka- A pilot study’, with Drs Vina Vaswani (Forensics), Anil Kakunje (Psychiatry) and Poonam Naik-Nirgude (Community Health)
3
‘Digital Intimate Partner Violence in India: Towards an Integrated Socio-Legal and Data- Analytics Framework (DIGIpv)’ Sheffield Hallam University.
4
Structural Determinants of Gender-Based Violence in Bihar: Scope for Evidence-Based Research, funded by the International Growth Centre, Awarded a Grant (2019- 2021).
5
The New Politics of Welfare: Towards an ‘Emerging Markets’ Welfare State Regime. Emerging Welfare Project with Dr Erdem Yoruk, funded by European Research Council, Koc University, Istanbul University, Turkey (Collaborator).
6
Ongoing typologies of sub-national typologies of the welfare state in India. I prepared a state-of-art dataset from Reserve Bank of India archives on Indian state’s social expenditure from 1947 onwards. It is a unique dataset.
7
Social Policy Association Small Grant, Comparative and International Social Policy Theories and Methods – Three Day PhD and Early Career Academic Workshop on Social Policy in Developing Contexts, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India, May 24th-26th May 2017 (Together with Dr. Stefan Kühner, Lingnan University Hong Kong, Dr. Joe Devine, University of Bath, UK and Professor Nick Ellison, University of York, UK).
8
Indian Council of Medical Research Grant on “Gender and Health” “The Training Requirements of Health Care Providers in Identifying and Mitigating Gender-Based Violence amongst Indian Women in Antenatal Health Settings in the Indian state of Haryana”, Awarded a grant.
9
Kadam Badao, in collaboration with Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), community- based research involving youth groups in communities and universities in Sonepat, Haryana on addressing gender-based violence (2013-2015, Supported by O.P Jindal Global University; PRIA).
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Research Grant from Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies, Oxford University Centre for the Environment (OUCE) for a project titled ‘Reproductive Well-Being and Capabilities of Women: Rethinking Public Health Budgets and Policies in Urban Contexts in India’ (April 2011)
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Sir Ratan Tata Travel Grant for Studies Abroad (2005).
12
PhD Study Gender Budgeting and Its Implications for Social Policy: A Study of HIV/AIDS in India Fully Funded by Queen’s University Belfast)
13
MPhil in Planning and Development (Funded by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Fellowship (Awarded on a Competitive Basis)