Mumbai Campus, Centre for Electoral Management Studies, School of Development Studies
Ph.D. in Development Studies - Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
PG Diploma in Governance, Democratisation & Public Policy - ISS, The Hague, Rotterdam University.
M.A. in Political Science - Lucknow University.
B.A. - IT College, Lucknow University.
saumya.tewari[at]tiss[dot]ac[dot]in
email: saumya.tewari@tiss.edu
Saumya Tewari is an Assistant Professor at Tata institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai; at the Centre for Electoral Management Studies, School of Development Studies. She has completed her PhD (2020) in Development Studies from TISS under Prof Ashwani Kumar.
With over a decade of experience in social science research and academics, she has served teaching stints in Political Science at Kumaun University in Nainital (2010-11), KES’ JH Patel Law College affiliated to Mumbai University (2019-20) and as guest faculty at Department of Political Science, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai (2020-2022) as well as the Department of Civics & Politics at Mumbai University (2016). She has also worked with IndiaSpend, Mumbai (2013-16) as a public policy analyst/writer while pursuing her PhD. She has also worked as a Consultant for Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi, sponsored Major Research Project on “Women as ‘Digital Subjects; Participating, Vulnerabilities and Building Empowerment” at SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai (January 2021- March 2022).
Her master’s degree is in Political Science from Lucknow University (2008) and she holds the PG Diploma in Governance, Democratization and Public Policy from ISS (2012).
She has been a visiting PhD scholar at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex under ESRC-ICSSR, from the Centre for Public Policy, Habitat and Human Development, School of Development Studies, TISS. She has presented papers at the International Political Science Association and International Public Policy Association’s conferences and workshops. Her doctoral research focuses on the Planning Commission to NITI Aayog reforms. She writes on policy, elections, federalism and gender. She has been an honorary visiting fellow at the Centre for Multilevel Federalism, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi.
Research Interests
Political Theory, Comparative Politics, Participatory Democracy, Development Studies, New Institutionalism, Transparency and Accountability, Gender
Publications
Paper titled Post-Brexit Trade (re)Negotiations: Geopolitical Implications for India, UK and EU (Co-authored with Benjamin Duke) in Language, Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), 5(2), pp60-87.
https://ellids.com/research/volumesissues/archive-5-2/5-2-duke-tewari/
Article titled Women & Digital Entrepreneurship in Urban India: A Road to Economic Empowerment? (Co-authored with Manisha Madhava) in NIFM Journal of Public Financial Management, Volume XIV, No.1, January – June 2022, ISSN: 2347-1549.
(Paper published after peer review at the Arun Jaitley National Institute of Financial Management, Faridabad, Virtual Symposium as part of National Webinar on Aatma Nirbhar Bharat held on December 24, 2021)
Blog titled Covid-19 Pandemic, Interstate Migrant Labour and Public Health: Policy Responses in IndiaCovid-19 Pandemic, in Federalism Bolg, Institute for Federalism, Innsbruck April 14, 2022. https://www.foederalismus.at/blog/covid-19-pandemic--interstate-migrant-labour-and-public-health--policy-responses-in-india_269.php?&title=covid-19-pandemic--interstate-migrant-labour-and-public-health--policy-responses-in-india&id=269
Demi-paper titled Institutional Weak Nodes Revealed in the Pandemic: Migration and Labour Policy Priorities in Indian Federalism Perspectives, Centre for Multilevel Federalism, New Delhi April 15, 2021.
https://res.cloudinary.com/jil/image/upload/v1641644404/ISSIN/CMF%20IFP%20Papers/IFP-6.pdf
Paper titled Examining Discourses on Social Welfare Policy Governance in Liberalised India with Focus on Public Health and Education Sectors published in Dynamics of Public Administration, Vol.35 Issue2, July-December, 2018 pp.249-262, Print ISSN:0975-3907.
http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:dpa&volume=35&issue=2&article=003
Paper titled Planning for Welfare in Post-liberalisation India: The Challenges of Building Human Capital published with the Journal of Public Affairs and Change, VolI, Issue2, Summer 2018, ISSN:2456-9420.
http://www.jpac.in/journalmanagement/index.php/JPAC/article/view/25
Paper titled Bringing data into journalism: The IndiaSpend Project. This coauthored paper was written for the Global Investigative Journalism Conference held in Lillehammer, Norway, in October 2015 as part of the academic track.
https://ijec.org/2016/02/06/bringing-data-into-journalism-the-indiaspend-project/
Chapter titled Development and Administration: A Conceptual Framework in State of Uttarakhand: Development and Governance, edited by Dr Jaya Pande, 2013, ISBN978-81-86844-34-2
Article titled Developing Economies and Globalization: Sustainability Concerns in Vol VII 2010-11 of Man Nature and Society (Annual Journal of Political Science and Public Administration), Kumaun University, Nainital, ISSN-2230-7370
Article titled The Question of Reservation: Political Equality and Gender in India in Vol I Issue-1/ July, 2009 of Quintessence of Research and Reference, SL. 7,Pg.73-80.
Forthcoming
Chapter (from PhD thesis) titled NITI Aayog’s Ecosystem in a Developing Economy: An Essay in Persuasion? in a proposed edited volume to be published by Orient BlackSwan India
Conferences
Presented working paper titled Childhood and Civic Participation: Policy Initiatives in India at conference on “Childhood Politics in India” at Department of Political Science, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai in collaboration with Lehigh University, USA- 13th & 14th February, 2024.
Attended the VII BRICS Conference at the University of Sao Paulo as a Speaker at the panel “THE FUTURE OF MULTILATERALISM” Sao Paulo, NOVEMBER 08th, 2023. (Online)
Presented research paper titled Mainstreaming Women into labour force: A Study of Home based Digital Entrepreneurship among Urban Middle Class Women at the National SeminarGender Mainstreaming: The Road Ahead sponsored by The Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR ) organized by the Internal Quality Assurance Cell, Loreto College, Kolkata on April 1, 2023.
Presented research paper in panel #IdentitiesVulnerabilitiesOpportunitiesDissent at the Internet Researchers’ Conference 2022 on the theme #Home, May 25th-27th, 2022. https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-identitiesvulnerabilitiesopportunitiesdissentir
Presented research paper titled Strengthening Local Capacity- determinants and enablers at the MS Gore Centenary National Conference on “Exploring Grassroots in India”, held at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, December 18th-21st, 2021, organized by the School of Development Studies, Mumbai.
Presentation titled Covid-19 Pandemic, Interstate Migrant Labour and Public Health: Policy Responses in India at the 2021 IACFS Conference, October 28th-30th, 2021. This hybrid Conference was titled, ‘The Making and End of Federalism’. I represented the Centre for Multilevel Federalism as an honorary fellow in a breakout session to make this presentation from my research.
Presented Paper (online) titled Psychology of the 21st Century Nationalist: Are PoliticalNarratives Invoking Hobbes’ State of Nature in Modern Democracies?At the International Workshop titled Rising Democracies, Interrupted (June 1st to 3rd, 2020) International Political Science AssociationRC34 – Quality of Democracy
Worked in the organising committee of the National Conference on Constitutionalism, organized by KES’ Shri JH Patel Law College, Mumbai held on February 1, 2020. Also worked on the editorial board of the publication of the special issue of the presented papers in the Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies, online ISSN 2278-8808 &print ISSN 2319-4766.
Presented Paper titled State- Directed Development in a Populist Democracy: Examining Economic Planning for Development in India at International Public Policy Association’s conference held at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (June 28th to 30th, 2017).
Received Asian Scholars Grant from the School to attend the conference.
Presented Paper titled Tackling Regional Inequalities in India: A Study of Devolution of Funds for States at the 24th IPSA World Congress, Poznan, Poland in the panel- Change in Relations between Central and Lower-level Governments (July 23rd to 28th, 2016).
Resource person for UN Women workshop titled “Realising the Gender Goals in the SDGs: Role of the Media”- held on December 7th & 8th, 2015, New Delhi. Presentation on Using Data in Media Reporting in the panel, Tools and Resources.
Resource person from IndiaSpend for the Video Volunteers National Meet held from September 29 to October 4, 2015 in Goa. Session on transparency and government accountability for grassroots volunteers from panchayats in Hindi-speaking states.
Worked in the organizing committee of the National Seminar on Globalization, Market and Consumer Protection, at Department of Political Science, DSB Campus, Kumaun University, Nainital (November 1st & 2nd, 2011).
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Courses Taught at TISS
2023
MA in Development Studies - State & Democracy
MIEMP - Democracy and Democratization: History, Theory and Practice;
MIEMP - (co-teaching and anchoring) Electoral Planning, Operations and Budgeting & Elections and Technology: A Global Perspective
FC 1- Ideas of India
