Projects
May 14, 2025 2025-05-15 8:24Projects
Projects
Projects
Bringing Children Back to School
A household survey was conducted in Haryana for assessing the ground situation of children education post COVID. Assessing the number of out of school children in the selected districts of Haryana, identifying households where children have started working over the past two years due to closure of school and financial hardships in the family. Fieldwork in areas where migrant families lived showed a heart-breaking picture. Most of the children of the migrant workers did not go back to school post-COVID.
Social Media and Youth
Young adults (18-29 yrs) were surveyed across India. Stratified sampling was used as the target group was educated youth. Over 200 observations collected. Main findings were that educated youth use social media mainly for entertainment, e-commerce and news purposes. They rarely use social media to vent out their grievances or mobilise for a cause. Findings have been published in a journal paper.
- Roy, Swetasree Ghosh (2024) “Social Media, Youth and Civil Unrest in India: A new rebel’s dilemma”; Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, OnlineFirst, https://doi.org/10.1177/20578911241254165
Democracy Assistance Directory
The fast access directory for assisting activists, researchers, students, academics to study the best practices for establishing and sustaining democracy around the world. Democracy Assistance Directory is a collection of work done by various non-profit organizations around the world that has helped their countries to improve governance by giving guidance on conducting free and fair elections, peaceful conflict resolution, capacity building of new members of parliament, etc. This directory will help all those interested in emulating these best practices to bring change in the governance of their countries.
Pre and Post Poll Surveys
Both surveys (2023-24) conducted with the aim of gauging the perception of people regarding democracy in India. Especially, during elections people become extremely political and opinionated. This was an opportune time to see how people value the democratic institutions of the country. Over 800 observations (belonging to the age group 18+) were collected using random sampling across India.
