Join us for an engaging conversation on the how, why, where, when and what of field research with a focus on social action. This session deep dives into the questions practitioners can ask and discusses designs and methods of research that are collaborative, innovative and advocacy-focused. The perspectives of our panellists will give participants a glimpse of how to improve and reimagine questions and designs commonly used to conduct field research.

About the Speakers

Dr. Akriti Bhatia is a sociologist, political economist and policy expert with specialisation in labour, urban, election and action research. She pursued her bachelor’s in Economics from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University; Masters in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), and PhD at the Delhi School of Economics, Department of Sociology, after attending a semester of PhD coursework at IIT, Mumbai. She is also the founder of People’s Association in Grassroots Action and Movements (PAIGAM), whose most recent report was ​‘Prisoners on Wheels: Report on working and living conditions of app-based workers in India’.

Juhi Tyagi is a faculty member at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. Before joining the University, Juhi was an EU-Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at the Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt and an MS Merian – R Tagore Fellow at the International Centre for Advanced Studies, Delhi. She has a PhD in Sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook where she examined how insurgencies become sustained radical movements. Her recent work explores the impact of social movements on the development trajectory of local economies, and the effect of networks of the poor on how climate catastrophes are experienced and mitigated.