RESEARCH
FLAME Centre for Legislative Education and Research
The FLAME Centre for Legislative Education and Research explores and clarifies the public sphere of governance, in India today. With support from PRS Legislative Research.
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Maya Dodd received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and subsequent post-doctoral fellowships at Princeton University with the Committee on South Asian Studies and the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at JNU, India. She has worked on advocacy issues for open educational resources, advocacy for nurturing archives and digital rights. Since receiving two international grants in collaboration – one on the 1975-77 Emergency in India and one for creating databases on public history in India, the Centre follows from her interest in creating databases and archives for public humanities in India.
Prof. Mayank Mathur has a Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow and MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, in the Data analytics area with various small, medium and large organizations across the globe. Dr. Mathur’s research has been published in top-rated journals across applied Data sciences and Industrial Economics.
Dr. Shivakumar Jolad works as Associate Professor of Public Policy at FLAME University, Pune, India. His primary interest is in social policies focused on Education, Health, and Human Development. Jolad has a PhD in Physics and a doctoral minor in Demography from Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA.
Joyita Roy Chowdhury received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Utah, USA. She was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, New York.
Dr. Anup Tripathi holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from University of Delhi and has Master’s and PhD degrees from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He has several publications and research projects to his credit. His interest areas are urban studies, housing, smart cities, urban politics and social welfare.
Shamsher Singh received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Calcutta while he was a doctoral fellow at the Sociological Research Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He has been involved in carrying out socio-economic village studies across different agro-ecological regions in India and in producing village profiles based on this research.
Mochish KS teaches Media Studies at the Faculty of Communication, FLAME University Pune. His areas of academic interest include Political Communication, Media & Public Action, and Media Histories. Mochish has an M.Phil. & Ph.D. in Media and Cultural Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India. His Ph.D. research analyses Malayalam newspapers' role in land struggles and movements in Kerala between 1930-2008.
Sreeparna Chattopadhyay is a broadly trained anthropologist with an A.M and a PhD from Brown University. Her professional experience spans the government, nonprofits and academia. Over the last fifteen years, her research has focused on the ways in which gender disadvantages interact with socioeconomic inequities, shaping women’s life trajectories including impacts on health, education, opportunities, and exposure to violence.
In relation to the work of the Centre, she is interested in issues of access to justice, legal protections, and remedies as it applies to discrimination and exclusion based on gender (and age) and its intersections with other social locations. She is also interested in improving the interface of legal systems with other support systems such as psychological support structures, advocacy organisations, and health systems that can aid in the long-term recovery and rehabilitation of survivors of violence. Her past research has included the following themes: domestic and sexual violence, child protection, and public health and the law. Her policy interests include an exploration of the mechanisms by which gender, education, and health policies can be made more inclusive and intersectional to protect the most vulnerable populations.
Saumya is a Fellow at Centre for Legislative Research and Education. She completed her MA from University of Chicago, in Social Sciences with a focus on Anthropology. She has completed her Bachelors in Technology from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology. She is an ethnographer who tries to tell stories through data and research.
Prior to joining FLAME, she was leading the Political Intelligence Unit and was one of the leads of the Field and Political Liaison unit as a Principal Associate at Indian Political Action Committee(I-PAC). She has also worked in the space of Data Science and Analytics at various organisations at various locations- Publicis Media in London, Capital One in Virginia, Deloitte in Hyderabad. She has also produced various shows for a small media platform called Media Vigil on issues of Castes and Tribes. In addition, she has written for The wire, Newsclick and Media Vigil in English and Hindi.
An alumnus of FLAME University, Rohit has majored in International Relations with a minor focusing on Public Policy during his tenure at FLAME University. During his time at the university, he developed a keen interest in research in social and political sciences. He has joined the FLAME Center for Legislative Education as a Researcher.