Ph.D. (Geography) from Centre for Studies of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; qualified NET for CSIR Fellowship; Visiting Fellow to Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK in 1997; Worked as a Research Officer at the Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India for the project on “Livelihood Adaptation: Gender Civil Society and Public Action”, Funded by ODA, in collaboration with IDS, Sussex, UK; worked as Senior Consultant (Planning) with GOI for District Primary Education Programme, a centrally sponsored and externally funded programme for UPE; Worked as Researcher and Trainer at Gender Training Institute, Centre for Social Research, New Delhi; coordinated Diploma programme on Educational Planning for six consecutive years, received training on educational planning and management from IIEP, Paris; received training on child rights, classroom and school management from University of Lund, Sweden; received training on Innovative Financing of Education from Central European University, Budapest, Hungary; she is presently working on different educational policy issues and developing training programmes for state level policy makers, planners and implementers. Her areas of interests include policy analysis, decentralised planning and management, education of girls and deprived groups; she has conducted field-based and empirical research studies on various development issues including education. Experience of working with NGOs and Research Institutes on various development issues with special focus on gender, health, education, sustainable livelihood, poverty, tribal development etc. She has been involved in a DFID funded international consortium on research on Educational, Access Transition and Equity, in which NIEPA has been a partner institute with the University of Sussex, U.K. Now, She has been lead in a international collaborative project on “Global Teacher Education Policies and Practices for Equitable and Quality Education” with University of Sussex, UK and she is currently involved in another project with University of Cambridge, UK on Enhancing Research Culture Award: Towards Equitable and Ethical Global Education; Research Partnerships: Challenges and Prospects. She has contributed papers to many international conferences, i.e., BAICE, BERA, UKFEIT, CIES, IAFOR, WCCES, WAC, NEXUS and so on and published papers in many journals and books.    

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