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DPhil (Education and Development), Universität Bielefeld, Germany

Postdoc (Higher Education) University of the Free State, (Bloemfontein), South Africa

Prof. (Dr.) L. N. Venkataraman

Associate Professor, IIHEd

Email laksh.venkataraman@jgu.edu.in
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ORCID ID 0000-0003-4694-0770
Key Expertise Higher Education Studies [University governance] Development Studies [Development Theories; Human Development and Capabilities Approach] Public Policy Studies [Governance, Welfare and Political economy]

DPhil (Education and Development), Universität Bielefeld, Germany

Postdoc (Higher Education) University of the Free State, (Bloemfontein), South Africa

Biography

L. N. Venkataraman (Laksh) is an Associate Professor at the International Institute for Higher Education Research and Capacity Building (IIHEd),  JGU. 
 
Previously, Dr. Venkataraman worked at TERI School of Advanced Studies (TERI SAS), New Delhi. He is the author of The Social Construction of Capabilities in a Tamil Village. His academic works can be accessed at the Economic and Political Weekly, Development in Practice, and Indian Journal of Human Development, among others.
 
Before joining TERI SAS, he had a stint as an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Universität Bielefeld, Germany, and later at the Centre for Development Support in the University of the Free State, South Africa. As a university professional, he has been closely associated with many scholars; public intellectuals, India as well as abroad. 
 
He was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Higher Education and Development (CRHED) in South Africa, and at the Research School on Education and Capabilities (EduCap) in Germany. As an active member of the Human Development and Capabilities Association (HDCA), USA since 2008; he worked as one of its Coordinators of Education Thematic Group (2021-23). Prior to this, he was coordinating the HDCA's Thematic Group activities of Participatory Methods (2014-2020) and Emerging Researchers’ Group (ERG)[2012-13] European Educational Research Association (EERA),Germany.

Strategic Planning and Change Management in Education

Education Law, Ethics, and Governance

Theories and Methods in Higher Education Research

Faculty of the Year [2017] TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi, India

Directorate Research Development Grant [2014 - 15], University of the Free State, South Africa

International Scholarship [2013 – 14] Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Universität Bielefeld, Germany

State Research Fellowship (of North Rhine-Westphalia) [2010 – 13] Research School on Education and Capabilities, Universität Bielefeld, Germany

University Rank in Post-Graduation [2000] Bharathidasan University, Tamil Nadu, India

Venkataraman, L. N. (2014-15), “Universities in the Knowledge Society: Higher Education Transformations in India and South Africa”, University of the Free State, South Africa.

Venkataraman, L. N. (2013-14), “Transnational Tamils in Germany”, Universität Bielefeld, Germany.

Venkataraman, L. N. (2010 – 13), “Caste, Class and Education: The Social Construction of Capabilities in a Tamil Village’’, Research School Education and Capabilities, Germany.

Directorate Research Development Grant [2014 - 15], University of the Free State, South Africa

International Scholarship [2013 – 14] Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Universität Bielefeld, Germany

State Research Fellowship (of North Rhine-Westphalia) [2010 – 13] Research School on Education and Capabilities, Universität Bielefeld, Germany

Conference Reviewer for (1) Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) [2016 & 2017]; (2) Annual Conferences of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) 2014, 15, and 17; (3) European Conference on Educational Research 2014 at the University of Porto, Portuguese, European Educational Research Association (EERA), Germany

Journal Reviewer to (1) Social Change [ISSN 00490857]; (2) World Development [ISSN 0305-750X]; (3) Ethnography and Education [ISSN 1745-7823] Editorial Assistance to Development and Change [ISSN:1467-7660]
 

Human Development and Capability Association, Boston University (USA)

Indian Sociological society (New Delhi).

Centre for Comparative and Global Education, O.P. Jindal Global University 

Venkataraman, L. N., (23/01/2024), “Complexities of University Rankings”, Interview at All Things Policy, Organized by Takshashila Institution, https://tinyurl.com/yjh23bfa

L. N. Venkataraman, (2023), “Complexities of Gatekeeping in Delhi: A Reflexive Account” The Eastern Anthropologist, Vol. 76, No. 4, (pp. 373-385). (Co-authored with Sanchi Jain) [ISSN 0012-8686].

Venkataraman, L. N. (2021), The Social Construction of Capabilities in a Tamil Village, Orient BlackSwan, New Delhi [ISBN 978-81-948295-9-1].

L. N. Venkataraman, (2021), “Complexities of Gatekeeping: A Reflexive Account” The Eastern Anthropologist, Vol. 74, No. 1, (pp. 77-95). (Co-authored with Ashmeet Kaur) [ISSN 0012-8686].

L. N. Venkataraman, (2021), “In Search of 'Civil' Society”, Review of Development and Change, Vol. 26, Issue 2, (pp. 247-250). DOI: 10.1177/09722661211020232

L. N. Venkataraman, (26/08/2020) “India matchmaking is game of compromise where patriarchy holds sway”, Outlook Magazine, Available at http://shorturl.at/dpFT0

L. N. Venkataraman, (2019), “Publication or Public Action? Discursive spaces of disengagements in India”, In G. S. Suresh Babu (Ed.) Education and the Public Sphere: Exploring the Structures of Mediation in Post-Colonial India, Routledge, The United Kingdom. (93-105). [ISBN 9781138495371].

L. N. Venkataraman, (2018), “Capitals and Capabilities: Social reproduction of inequalities in Sripuram”, In Lopez-Fogues, Aurora and Firdevs Melis Cin (Ed), Youth, Gender and the Capabilities Approach to Development: Rethinking Opportunities and Agency from a Human Development Perspective, Routledge, New York. (pp. 92-107). [ISBN-13: 978-1138234680].

L. N. Venkataraman, (2018), “The privatisation of public welfare in India”, Social Work & Society, Vol. 16, Issue 2, (pp. 1-5). [ISSN 1613-8953].

L. N. Venkataraman, (2018), “Can Lateral Entry in the IAS Ensure Good Governance?”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 53, No. 32, (pp. 1-6). [ISSN 00129976].

L. N. Venkataraman, (2016), “New Education Policy and the continuing contentions in India”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 51, No. 35, (pp. 47-50). [ISSN 00129976].

L. N. Venkataraman, (2016), “Social Sciences in India: Premises and promises of Capability Approach” Indian Journal of Human Development, Vol. 10, No. 1, (pp. 1-11) [ISSN 0973-7030]. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0973703016654560

L. N. Venkataraman, (2015), “Social construction of capabilities and intersectional complexities in a Tamil village”, Development in Practice, Vol. 25, No. 8, (pp. 1170-1181), [ISSN 0961-4524]. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2015.1083537

L. N. Venkataraman, (2014), “Caste, Class and Education: The intersectional implications of capabilities formation in a South Indian village”, In Otto and Schäfer (Ed.), New Approaches Towards the Good Life: Applications and Transformations of the Capability Approach, Barbara Budrich Publishers, Germany, (pp. 107-121). [ISBN 978-3-8474-0157-5].

L. N. Venkataraman, (2014), “Orphan-schooling in India: A reflexive account from Sripuram”, Sociological Bulletin: Journal of the Indian Sociological Society, Vol. 63, No. 2, (pp. 302-313), [ISSN 0038-0229]. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0038022920140207

L. N. Venkataraman, (2014), “Caste and the mainstream narratives”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLIX, No. 6, (pp. 76-77). [ISSN 00129976].

L. N. Venkataraman, (2013), “Quality, employability and capabilities: The enduring elusive triangle in Indian education”, ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, (April 2013/ 127), (pp. S. 30-47). [ISSN 0721-5231].
Email laksh.venkataraman@jgu.edu.in
ORCID ID 0000-0003-4694-0770
Key Expertise Higher Education Studies [University governance] Development Studies [Development Theories; Human Development and Capabilities Approach] Public Policy Studies [Governance, Welfare and Political economy]
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