Research Funding Programme 2021
Announcement of funding awarded for projects in Climate Change Action; Local Democracy; Labour, Livelihoods and Employment.
Our sixth Research Funding Programme comes from our efforts to strengthen and elevate the state of understanding of societal processes and outcomes. This programme is designed to promote inquiry into areas of particular interest to Azim Premji Foundation and explore possible responses.
We are pleased to announce the projects that have been selected under this programme for the year as below. Congratulations to all the awardees!
| Research Funding 2021 Projects & Awardees | |
|---|---|
| ◆ Climate Change Action | |
| Developing an Educational Framework for Climate Justice in India: With Special Reference to Clinical Legal Education | Madhuri Parikh |
| Integrating citizen science in climate-change education in schools | Geetha Ramaswami |
| Voice Based Community Media for Climate Resilience | Rohan Katepallewar |
| Making Books on Climate Change for Young Readers in India | Bijal Vachharajani |
| Stories of Climate Action: Democratizing Planning in Mumbai’s wetscapes | Rohit Mujumdar |
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| ◆ Local Democracy | |
| Local Democracy in the Woods: Understanding Decentralised Forest Governance through Forests Rights Act, 2006 | Satyapriya Rout |
| Does Identity Politics Subsume Local Governance! A Study of the Darjeeling Hills | Gorky Chakraborty |
| Functioning of Tribal Political Structure: Interaction in traditional tribal self-governance and constitutional panchayats in selected tribal villages of south Gujarat | James Dabhi |
| Gender-sharing between local leaders and frontline workers: Implications for Public Services | Deepak Singhania |
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| ◆ Labour, Livelihoods and Employment | |
| Rethinking Amphibious Work: An Enquiry Into Skill, Symbolic Capital And Work (IN)Security Among Diving Communities Of The Gulf Of Mannar And Palk Bay, Tamil Nadu | Aarthi Sridhar |
| Inter-State Migration of Workers in India: Its Magnitude, Impacts, and the Way Forward | Jayan Jose Thomas |
| Industrial estates and the everyday precariousness of working labour in Kashmir Valley | Elizabeth Mariam |
| Livelihood and Gender in the Urban Space: The Case of CSCs under Digital India Programme | Meenakshi Rajeev |
| Skilling Youth of Goa: An Assessment of the Short-Term Training under PMKVY 2.0 | Prakash Singh |
| Impact of COVID induced permanent reverse migration on women’s labour market opportunities in rural India | Stutilina Pal |
| Impact of hiring and firing laws on factor productivity: A unit level analysis using judicial outcome Index | Irfan Sofi |
| How are handloom weavers using digital technology and skills to innovate and adapt their knowledge practices for craft futures? | Abismrita Chakravarty |
| Everyday Struggles of Women Laborers for Guaranteed Work in Mananthavady Municipality, Wayanad: Issues and Ways Forward for a Better Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme in Kerala | Neeraja K S |
| Body in Transition: An Ethnographic Study of Hysterectomies among Female Sugarcane Labourers in Beed, Maharashtra | Neymat Chadha |
| Employment in the Care Sector in India: Assessing the Coverage Gap of Care Service Provisions | Prachi Bansal |
| Impact of legal discrimination on female economic participation outcomes across Indian states | Bhuvana Anand |
| Evaluating Urban Wage Employment Initiative for Informal Sector Workers in Odisha | Rajkishor Mishra |
| Can Access to Safer Public Transport Improve Female Labour Force Supply in Urban India? | Rishi Kumar |
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Timeline for submissions and deadlines
- Announcement of awards.
- Deadline for submission of final proposal and budget.
- Research Project begins.
Please write to helpdesk.research@apu.edu.in for any queries.