Kaniska Singh

PhD Candidate

Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies,

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

kkaniska.singh919@gmail.com

Women's Paid Work as a Bubble of Empowerment: A Case Study of a Social Enterprise Working with Women Artisans, International Conference on Changing Contour of Women's Paid and Unpaid Work, TISS, Mumbai, 2018

• Exclusion and Processes of Differentiation in disaster governance and policy making, Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado (Researcher's Meeting), 2020
• Resilient- Society 'for' Sustainable Development? -Deconstructing the 'problem Representation' within Disaster Management Policies in India, NEEDS 2021, 2021
• Examining Policy Problematizations of Disaster in Indian Disaster Management Policies, International Conference on Public Policy and Management, IIM Bangalore, 2021
• Democratizing Disaster Risk Reduction: A Local Governance Approach to Contextual Knowledge Production for Flood Planning in Kuttanad, India, 5th World Conference on Disaster Management, 2022
• Exploring invisibility and agencies of the disaster underclass: A critique of the flood risk governance in the Kosi floodplains, India, from a disaster injustice perspective, National Conference on Transforming India - Risk to Resilience organised by Special Centre of Disaster Research (SCDR), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) with Disaster Management Initiatives and Convergence Society (DMICS), 2023
• (Mis)Recognition within Flood Governance process: Implications for recovery of riverine communities, NEEDS 2023, 2023

• NET-Junior Research Fellowship
• Teaching Assistant at IIT Bombay

• Dr. Seema Sharma, Associate professor, Department of Social Work, University of Delhi, seemasharma.dsw@gmail.com
• Prof. NC Narayanan, HOD & Professor, Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay, ncniit@gmail.com
• Prof. Janki Andharia, Dean of the School of Disaster Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, andharia@tiss.edu

• Critical Analysis of the Role of Flood Risk Governance in the inequitable distribution of Flood Risk: A case study of Kosi floods in Bihar, PhD, Prof. NC Narayanan, 07/2019-Ongoing
• Voices After Disaster: narratives and representation following the Kerala floods of August 2018” project supported by the University of East Anglia the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, and Canalpy, Kerala.
• Study of a Social Enterprise and its Role in Women's Empowerment, M.Phil(Social Work), Dr. Seema Sharma, Dissertation submitted

• Women's Paid Work as a Bubble of Empowerment: A Case Study of a Social Enterprise Working with Women Artisans, Gendered Inequalities in Paid and Unpaid Work of Women in India, Springer Singapore, 71-97, 2022
• Democratizing Disaster Risk Reduction: A Local Governance Approach to Contextual Knowledge Production for Flood Planning in Kuttanad, India, 5thWorld Congress on Disaster Management, Routledge, 311-321, 2022
• Confronting Disparities in the Time of COVID-19, Center for Policy Studies
• Challenges of flood control technologies on Kosi River in India (2023), blog piece in Society for Social Studies of Science