Research for social impact
Understanding Post-Covid-19 Governance Challenges in India: A Compendium of Essays
This compendium has eight long essays on governance challenges that have emerged in India in the wake of three waves of global Covid-19 pandemic.
Field studies in education
Primary school teachers want children back to learning in schools and classrooms
Need to shift from quantity to quality of producer companies
16000 producer companies in India require better inclusion, capitalisation and incubation.
Understand the world in which we live to change it.
Our research is focused on questions of India’s futures. We believe that genuine social change is only born through a well informed, sensitive and engaged citizenry.
Thinking about India’s futures
Individuals from across the University work together in interdisciplinary teams on themes of India’s socioeconomic development.
UG Science Research
Learn to build your own equipment and set up your own experiments, rather than using ready-made ones that often serve as nothing more than a black box.
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Parliamentarians must ask more pertinent questions on climate change
Terms like ‘global warming’ or ‘climate change’ hardly reverberate in the sound-proof halls of Parliament. While there is a global crisis unfolding that is set to permanently shift the course of human history, most parliamentarians seem blissfully ignorant of it, writes Shashwat D C in Moneycontrol.
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How an experiment opens up new ways of engaging with one’s subject and invites to reflect on practices of fieldwork
Interviews from field work usually end up being sifted to help build up the researcher’s argument. ‘Mobile Girls Koottam’ by Madhumita Dutta proves that needn’t always be the case, writes Karuna Dietrich Wielenga, Faculty, Azim Premji University, in The Wire.
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Why the EIU liveability index has less to do with people and more to do with businesses
The Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU’s) index measures liveability in silos. It needs to be understood in the context of the social, economic, and political processes of development, writes Anusha Bhat, an alumna of MA Development, Azim Premji University, in Deccan Herald.
Research and Collaboration
Azim Premji University’s work with SCERT Sikkim
State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) Sikkim has collaborated with Azim Premji University in revamping the Sikkim Teacher Eligibility Test (STET) to improve the quality of teacher recruitment in the state.
Teacher efforts to support learning recovery after school reopening
Mapping the efforts of public school teachers who have consistently demonstrated their commitment and capability towards student learning
Missing discourse about climate change in Indian Parliament
Seema Mundoli and Harini Nagendra, faculty at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, highlight how parliamentary oversight in a well-functioning democracy can play an important role in climate change policy, ensuring that climate concerns are represented in national agendas.
Biology Research | The curious case of the ant-mimicking spider
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