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.
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Why much of research in education is on obvious and trivial matters, and therefore not useful
Education is by its very nature a field of practice; it is not an effort at explaining the world. The only test of good research in education should be whether it is useful to the practice of education or not, writes Anurag Behar in Mint.
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What was the status of extreme poverty level in India, prior to the pandemic? Did demonetisation increase poverty?
There is much uncertainty on poverty between 2011-12 and 2019, from an increase (leaked NSS data) to a near elimination (IMF working paper). The truth lies in between, but where? It is important to keep sight of the human element and bigger picture in these data battles, says Amit Basole in Mint.
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COVID Impact Survey: Tracing Bengaluru’s Urban Poor
The Survey, conducted across 33 wards of Bengaluru, reveals how weak our public systems are in reaching the most vulnerable residents of the city. There is an urgent need to revamp Bengaluru’s governance systems.
Research stories
At Right Angles: The Language of Mathematics
Working around language to improve the learning of Mathematics in the classroom
The evolutionary race between COVID-19 and humans: Will there be one winner?
An evolutionary approach to the pandemic is made to understand the strategies of the viral pathogen and the human host, and the coevolutionary interactions between them.
An engaging way to study biology from the Indian perspective
iThink Biology is a new online textbook. It is free. We invite you to use this book to study and teach biology.
Growing Cities and Shrinking Agriculture
Health and Climate Change in India
The Science Undergraduate Research Conference