School of Social Sciences

In the last five years, she has brought out the Proceedings in 2012 of a seminar on Developmental Psychology Education sponsored by the ICSSR (India), NWO (Netherlands) and ESRC (UK) held in Cambridge University earlier.   She also organised a workshop for young scholars on Cross Cultural Research Collaboration in the spring of 2010.  Since 2011 she has been the expert of Project Advisory Committee sponsored by the UGC on Disability at the Department of Psychology at Calcutta University. She organised a multidisciplinary brainstorming seminar at NIAS in 2013 on Public Risk Perception and brought out the proceedings of the same in 2014.  She is on the Advisory Committee of WHO 11th revision on Child Psychiatric Disorders from 2011 onwards.  She has published an Anthology Stories and a Novel in this period.  Her major contributions are two books brought out by Pearson Education (2011) on Counselling of Children and another one on Psychological Perspectives on Indian Indigenous Health Systems, namely Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Tibetan medicines brought out by Springer (2016). 

She has been running a Free Child Guidance Centre in Bangalore with the help of trained volunteers since 2003. She has longstanding commitment to counselling children and promotion of psychosocial development of rural and tribal children for over two decades.  She also conducts workshops and delivers keynote addresses and lectures to lay public, parents, school teachers, counsellors and the academic community.  She is committed to promotion of child mental health and overall psychosocial development of children.

Shalini Dixit, is an M.Phil- PhD from Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Masters in Psychology. 

She received NCERT Doctoral Fellowship for her PhD research. Her doctoral work on the understanding of history was awarded D Sinha Best Doctoral Dissertation Award by the National Academy of Psychology in the year 2013. She has had years of experience in teaching and research in a number of colleges in University of Delhi including Jesus & Mary College and Mata Sundri College (Department of Elementary Education) and Kamla Nehru College (Department of Psychology) as Assistant Professor. She also worked with Department of Educational Psychology and Foundations of Education, NCERT; Save the Children, Finland; and James Cook University Australia, Singapore Campus. Her familiarity and interest lies in Cultural and Cognitive Processes in appreciation of History, Critical aspects Educational Psychology , Cultural Processes, Social Psychology, Gender Issues with Social Psychological perspective, and Rojerian approach to Personality and Communications etc. 

Her research area has been understanding and notions of history amongst people in Santali tribal cultural community

Jeebanlata Salam did her Ph.D from the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.   Prior to joining NIAS, Dr. Salam taught Sociology at the University of Delhi.   

Her main research interest includes Sociology of Education, Social Exclusion, Education Policies, Vocational & Skill Education, Studies in Ethnicity, Conflict, Violence and Human Rights Issues etc

Shivali Tukdeo is an Associate Professor in the education programme. Her scholarly engagements are rooted in diverse disciplinary interactions including education policy, critical social theory and sociology of education among others. Her research interests include sociology of education, global studies in education and gender studies. 

Over the last few years, she has focused her research on the new policy regimes in education in India and their connections with international, supra-national policy orientations. Her current work includes education among the disadvantaged communities, ethnography of education and sociology of education policy.