Postdoctoral Researcher

School of Law and Government, Dublin City University

Associated with the DCU Conflict Institute. Taught Guided Research to second-year International Relations students. Organised a two-day conference on 25 years of UNSC Resolution 1325.

Assistant Professor

School of Law and Government, Dublin City University

Taught Research Design and Methods, Contemporary Political Terrorism, and IR and Emerging Challenges.

Researcher

Dublin City University

Research support on the women's movement under DCU's Ireland North-South Project.

Senior Research Consultant

Sambodhi Research and Communications, India

Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor on the UBS Optimus Foundation funded Transform NEEV Collective, on family-based alternative care. Led a team of three in designing a reflexive, longitudinal MERL model for the consortium.

Research Consultant

Mapping Humanitarianism Initiative, India

Led a team of five mapping violent incidents, casualties and local peacebuilding measures in Manipur from open and local media sources.

Program Manager

Access to Justice Fellowship, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Managed and tracked fellows working across 12 states. Rapporteur for the Universal Periodic Review at UNHRC.

Civilian Protection Officer

Nonviolent Peaceforce, Philippines

Implemented community-based protection and conflict prevention in Maguindanao Province, Mindanao, including conflict mapping, advocacy with armed actors, and confidential child soldier reporting with UNICEF.

Program Officer

Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), New Delhi

Designed and launched a digital knowledge management initiative on participatory practice in governance and democracy.

Research Officer

Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

Managed a study on the impact of violence on the civilian population in Manipur, from research design and fieldwork to analysis and reporting.

Trainee Journalist

India Today Magazine, New Delhi

Editorial and feature writer for the monthly supplement Simply, and editor for seven other city editions.

Co-facilitated a two-day EthnoLAB for postgraduate and doctoral students, Dublin City University.

Tutorial Assistant, Politics of South Asia (BA International Relations, DCU).

Seminar on doing fieldwork: methods, pitfalls and ethics, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI).

Taught Theoretical Perspectives to International Relations (BA, DCU). Guest lectures on postcolonialism and on internal conflicts in India.

EASA, Poznań: co-convened the panel Matters of Risk: Infrastructures and Technologies of (In)Security and Polarization and presented Roads, Bridges, and Police Camps: Infrastructure as Counterinsurgency.

Organised a two-day conference on 25 years of UNSC1325, Women, Peace and Security: Where are we? Where are we going?, Dublin City University.

Co-organised the workshop Deliberation, Participation and Democracy in Contemporary South Asia, funded by EASAS, Dublin City University.

European Conference on South Asian Studies, Turin: co-convened a panel and presented Mimetic rivalry and (de)legitimizing Adivasi agency in Chhattisgarh, India.

Surrender/Insurgent: Leaving/Living a revolution, workshop on governance by non-state armed actors, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence.

Presented fieldwork observations from Chhattisgarh at a UNICEF staff workshop on emergencies and conflict.

Paper on community based protection mechanisms and unarmed civilian peacekeeping, Human Security conference, Istanbul.

PhD, School of Law and Government

Dublin City University. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Global India Project

India's Response to Internal Armed Violence: Surrender and Rehabilitation in Maoist India.

MPhil, Development Studies (Distinction)

Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

MA, Disaster Studies

Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Specialisation in conflict, peace and development; complex emergencies; humanitarian response.

Bachelor of Journalism (Honours)

University of Delhi