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• Dr. Shilp Shikha Singh (Assistant Professor - Political Science)

  
  

  Dr. Singh has holds a Master's degree in Political Science from the University of Lucknow and a D.Phil. on Political Mobilisation and Food Security in Uttar Pradesh from the G.B. Pant Social Science Institute, University of Allahabad, Allahabad. She has been a recipient of ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship, NRTT Post-doc Fellowship and qualified for UGC Post-doc Fellowship for Women. Her previous research assignments include: Research and Programme Manager in the development sector for understanding problems and implementing programmes of education in conflict areas such as those affected by naxalites, multilingual education in the tribal areas of Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, Musahar pockets of Bihar and tribal communities on the Inter-State border areas; Postdoc Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta to work on the governmentality of the Musahar community in the Kushinagar and Maharajganj districts of Uttar Pradesh; and a Research Officer at the Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute to work on Agrarian Crisis and Encroachment of Public Water Bodies, Children’s Education on the Conflict and Crisis Situation. She also taught Political Theory to Law students at the Raffles University, Neemrana and CHRIST University; Contemporary Political Theory, Institutions and Identities to MPhil Students at CSSSC, and undergraduate students at I P College.
  
  Her areas of interest include Indian Government and Politics, The Politics of Marginalities and Governance, Trends of Protest and Public Action in contemporary India and Interlinkages between Democracy and Culture. During her tenure at Giri Institute she has primarily worked on trends and processes of democracy in the State of Uttar Pradesh. The particular focus has been on articulation, resistance and politics during and between elections.
  
  She has done multiple projects on the politics of the state and is currently engaged in exploring Emerging Political Consciousness Among Dalits and OBC communities of the State.She has received funding from ICSSR for three major projects and worked on multiple collaborative assignments as part GIDS research team. She has remained part of publication team of GIDS. Dr. Singh specializes in qualitative methods and her work in ethnography found reference in the Sage Handbook of Qualitative Business and Management Research Methods: History and Tradition, 2018.
  
  She has multiple publications in journals of repute including Studies in Indian Politics, Society and Culture in South Asia, and Economic and Political Weekly. Her contribution Intervention and Identity: Reconstructing Marginality, An Ethnographic Account, in EPW, Vol. 48 No. 20 May 2013 received scholarly attention. Her recent contribution Are Reserved Constituency Dalit Centric in Studies in Indian Politics 7(1), 2019, contributed significantly to the debate in academia around politics of representation. She has 7 research papers to her credit.

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