Post Docs

Nisar Kannangara is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Inequality and Human Development Programme, NIAS. His research areas include political anthropology, ethnography of housing, and the autonomous adaptation of climate change. He received his PhD in Anthropology from Pondicherry University in 2019. Before joining NIAS, he was a Project Associate with the Kerala Cultural Museum, Directorate of Culture, Trivandrum, Kerala.

Swati Narayan’s research focuses on the analysis of human development and social policies from an inter-disciplinary perspective, across South Asia and especially in India. Prior to NIAS, she was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Development. Previously, she has worked extensively as an independent researcher with a range of international and national non-government organisations and managed South Asian research at Oxfam GB.

She has completed her PhD at the Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS), Mumbai. Previously she has Masters' degrees from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London and TISS. She is also an alumna of the Cambridge Advanced Programme in Rethinking Development Economics (CAPORDE) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

For more than a decade, she has also been an activist with a range of civil society organisations.

Kshipra Jain is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Rajasthan and is currently on lien to pursue her research as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Inequality and Human Development Programmme of School of Social Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies. She obtained PhD in Development Studies from the International Institute of Population Sciences, Mumbai in 2017. Kshipra has a double Masters in Economics and Population Studies. Her teaching interests includes Econometrics, Development Economics, Demography and Health Economics. Her research work is primarily focused on gender studies, financial literacy, financial inclusion, health inequalities and ageing.