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Social Sciences

Dean: Prof Anitha Kurup

With an eclectic mix of disciplines, School of Social Sciences is engaged in activities that include research, teaching, outreach, advocacy and consultancy. The faculty are drawn from sociology and social anthropology, gender studies, educational studies and economics, and have conducted several research-cum-outreach projects in the fields of education, gender, governance and development. Current areas of interest are in forging inter-disciplinary work to understand and address issues in the areas of water and education. Current areas of research include education, migration and transnationalism, organisations, governance, development, urbanisation and economic sociology.

Opportunity:

PhD Fellowships-NIAS-UNDP Policy Research Initiative on Inequality and Human Development Project-related PhD Fellowships

Assistant Professor / Post-Doctoral Associate (NIAS-UNDP Policy Research Initiative on Inequality and Human Development)

Research Associate (Urban and Mobility Studies)

Abha Rao	Ajay Chandra	Anamika Ajay
Anitha Kurup	Ankita Rathi	Anupama Mahajan
Bharat Chandra Rout	Carol Upadhya	Chetan B Singai
Debosree Banerjee	Jeebanlata Salam	Keya Bardalai
Kshitija Joshi	Leya Mathew	N. Shantha Mohan
Narendar Pani	Rashmi M	S.S. Meenakshis...
Sanam Roohi	Sashi Kiran C	Savitha Suresh Babu
Shalini Dixit	Shivali Tukdeo	Sindhu H R
Sitharama S. Iyengar	Soundarya Iyer	Sulagna Mustafi
Sumedha Bajar

Current Programs

Conflict Resolution
Education Programme
Provincial Globalization
RBI Programme on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Economic issues
Skills, Livelihoods and Mobilities Programme

Ongoing Work

Sociology and Social Anthropology

Past Programs

Vidyankura
Urban Research and Policy
Water Sharing and Conflicts

Mathew, L., 2017. Betrayed futures: Uneconomic schooling in liberalizing Kerala (India). In Anthropological perspectives on student futures. Anthropological Studies of Education. Anthropological perspectives on student futures. Anthropological Studies of Education. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 103-118.
Kurup, A., 2017. Gender, Science and Technology Education in India. In Feminists and Science: Critiques and Changing Perspectives in India. Feminists and Science: Critiques and Changing Perspectives in India. New Delhi: Sage. Available at: http://eprints.nias.res.in/id/eprint/1244.
Kapur, M., 2017. Being a Human Mental Health Professional. Journal of Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, 43(1), pp.123-127. Available at: http://eprints.nias.res.in/id/eprint/1245.
Dixit, S. & Rout, B.Chandra, 2017. Writing History: Truth and Ideology. The New Leam, 3(22-23), pp.5-7. Available at: http://thenewleam.com/2017/03/writing-history-truth-and-ideology-by-shalini-dixit-and-bharat-chandra-rout/.
Iyer, S., 2017. Circular Migration and Localized Urbanization in Rural India. Environment and Urbanisation ASIA, 8(1), pp.105-119.
Kapur, M., 2017. Quality Primary Education. Mentor LXL Ideas, 10(9), pp.14-17. Available at: http://eprints.nias.res.in/id/eprint/1246.
NIAS, , 2017. NIAS Wednesday Discussion Report: "Health Inequalities: The Indian Context", NIAS.
Bajar, S., 2017. Locational Mismatch between the Demand for Jobs and the Demand for Skills in India. , WP6-2017. Available at: http://eprints.nias.res.in/1261/.
Rana, S., 2016. Book Review: Comparative Study of Child Soldiering on Myanmar-China Border: Evolutions, Challenges and Countermeasures by Kai Chen (Singapore: Springer, 2014). Available at: http://eprints.nias.res.in/1173/.
Upadhya, C., 2016. Mario Rutten (1958-2015)- Obituaries. Economic and Political Weekly, 51(5), p.96. Available at: http://www.epw.in/journal/2016/5/obituaries/mario-rutten-1958-2015.html.
Pani, N., 2016. Historical insights into modern corruption: Descriptive moralities and cooperative corruption in an Indian city. Griffith Law Review, 25, pp.1-17. Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10383441.2016.1165644.
Kurup, A., 2016. Impact of Science and Technology on Women. Available at: http://yojana.gov.in/Recent_archive_English_2016.asp.
Iyer, C.G., 2016. Impact of entrepreneur on the sectoral system of innovation: Case study of the Indian crude oil refining industry. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 102, pp.102 - 111. Available at: http://eprints.nias.res.in/920/.
Arkalgud, R. et al., 2016. India's national higher education policy recommendations since independence: An ontological analysis. Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, 30, pp.5–24. Available at: http://eprints.nias.res.in/1136/.
Kuzhiparambil, A., 2016. A Secondary Informal Circuit of Globalisation of Production: Home-based Cashew Workers in Kerala, India. Global Labour Journal, 7(3), pp.279-296. Available at: https://escarpmentpress.org/globallabour.

The Provincial Globalisation programme explores processes of ‘provincial globalisation’ in India by studying transnational connections between Overseas Indians and their home regions, especially the effects of ‘reverse flows’ of resources, including remittances, philanthropy, investments, and knowledge. Provincial Globalisation is a collaborative international research programme of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of Amsterdam, and the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore, India, funded by the Integrated Programme of WOTRO Science for Global Development, the Netherlands.

NIAS Public Lecture: “Dialogue of the Deaf: The Government and the RBI” by “Dialogue of the Deaf: The Government and the RBI” By TCA Srinivasa Raghavan, Lecture Hall, NIAS, 3.30PM

6 Jul 2017

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