Dr Mansi Awasthi | Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Dr Mansi Awasthi

Assistant Professor
Mumbai Campus, School of Management and Labour Studies

Qualification

PH.D. (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai),

M.PHIL (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai),

M.A. (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai),

B.A (Hons.) Economics (University of Delhi)

Contact

mansi.awasthi [at]tiss[dot]edu

mansi.awasthi@gmail.com

Dr. Mansi Awasthi is an Assistant Professor in the Labour Market Research Facility (LMRF) at the School of Management and Labour Studies.

She has demonstrated analytic capabilities with implementing data science solutions in research areas with a focus on the manufacturing sector, employment, and wages requiring extensive use of big data techniques. She is skilled in implementing solutions in programming languages, R, SPSS and Stata, and visualisation software, Tableau.

She is an affiliated researcher in the R4D project "Ethnic Power Relations and Conflict in the Fragile States", funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

Her areas of interest are

1. Predictive analytics

2. R programming language and Tableau

3. Employment, migration, and livelihoods

4. Ethnic power relations and group-level inequalities

5. Hill economy

Sekher M., Awasthi M., Nayak S., Kumar R. (2022) Resource Extraction and Conflict in India. In: Ali H.E., Cederman LE. (eds) Natural Resources, Inequality and Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Sekher M., Awasthi M. (2020) Revisiting Agriculture Land Use for Disaster Resilient Sustainable Development. In: Malhotra V.K., Fernando R.L.S., Haran N.P. (eds) Disaster Management for 2030 Agenda of the SDG. Disaster Research and Management Series on the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore.

Paul B., Awasthi M. (2020) Interplay of Technology and Labour Productivity: Emerging Story of Consumer Electronics in India. In: Siddharthan N., Narayanan K. (eds) FDI, Technology and Innovation. Springer, Singapore.

Awasthi M. (2020) Framing India's New Middle-Class Politics of Lifestyle in the Globalisation Era. In: Suter C., Madheswaran B., Vani B. P. (eds) The Middle Class in World Society: Negotiations, Diversities and Lived Experiences. Routledge, India.

Awasthi M. (2019) Institutional Responses to Exclusion and Poverty in Highlands. In: Sekher M., Carciumaru R. (eds) Including the Excluded in South Asia. Springer, Singapore.

Sekher M., Awasthi M., Thomas A., Kumar R., Nayak S. (2019) Negotiating Ethnic Conflict in Deeply Divided Societies: Political Bargaining and Power Sharing as Institutional Strategies. In: Ratuva S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore.

Awasthi M., Hirzel M. (2016). Ethnic Power Relations in India: The Relevance of Local Politics and the Nuances of Historically Disadvantaged Identity. Retrieved from http://www.r4d.epr.ethz.ch/publications/epr-working-paper-series.html (2016, July 15).

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1. Mathematics of Analytics

2. R programming language

2. Multivariate Predictive Analytics I

3. Multivariate Predictive Analytics II

4. Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods