Dr Mohua Nigudkar | Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Dr Mohua Nigudkar

Assistant Professor
Mumbai Campus, Centre for Equity and Justice for Children and Families, School of Social Work - Mumbai Campus

Qualification

M.A. (TISS), Ph.D.

Contact

mohua.nigudkar[at]tiss[dot]ac[dot]in

mohua.nigudkar@tiss.edu

Started career as Probation Officer in the State Childrens’ Home and thereafter as Social Worker with a Children’s Home. Joined the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, as faculty in the year 2000 and is currently Assistant Professor at TISS, Mumbai. Involved in teaching courses related to vulnerable children, social work skills, etc. Also engaged with supervision of fieldwork students and research related work. Participated in faculty exchange/training programmes in USA, Finland, and Switzerland. Was part of core team to design and conduct a training programme related to social work with children at Yangon, Myanmar

Former Member of the Juvenile Justice Board (Mumbai Suburban) for seven years. As a Social Work Member of the Board, have worked closely with the Magistrate on cases pertaining to children in conflict with law and rehabilitation. Have been part of Maharashtra Govt. appointed and High Court appointed Committees for areas pertaining to juvenile justice. Invited participant at Round Table consultations organized by Supreme Court Commitee on Juvenile Justice and High Court Committee on Juvenile Justice

Have been a resource person at several State and National Training Programmes at places such as the National Judicial Academy, other State Judicial Academy, National Police Academy, law universities, govt child welfare depts., NGOs, UNICEF, etc., on various topics related to the juvenile justice system, child rights, child vulnerability, and child protection. Have taken sessions with judicial members, police officers, officials from govt. child welfare depts.,social workers, etc.

Led a small team at TISS towards preparation and submission of the Model Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on Missing Children as directed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India. The current National SOP is based on the TISS SOP

Have been involved in collaborative work with Organisations such as UNICEF, Save the Children, and SOS Children's Villages of India, Catalysts for Social Action, Prerana, in the arena of child rights and child protection

Have developed several modules, manuals, and courses related to child rights, child protection, and and juvenile justice

Child Rights

Child Protection

Child in Conflict with Law

Missing Children

Child in Need of Care and Protection

Juvenile Justice System

Alternative Care

Nigudkar, M. 2023. Child Rights and Child Protection in India: A Commentary, National Police Academy Journal, Special Issue on Child Protection, [ISSN: 2395 2733]

https://www.svpnpa.gov.in/static/gallery/docs/ea70ec35f79946e999264ed4a08c565b.pdf

Nigudkar, M. 2022. Missing Children in India: Prevalence and Contexts, Economic & Political Weekly, https://www.epw.in/journal/2022/2/commentary/missing-children-india.html, 57 (2), 28-31, 2022. [ISSN: 2349-8846]

Nigudkar, M. 2022. A Classroom of Windows and Names: Reflections on Online Teaching During COVID-19, The Indian Journal of Social Work, 83 (1), 1-27,
2022. [ISSN: 0019-5634]

Nigudkar, M. 2022. Integrating Child-Centred Social Work Education and Practice. In M. Desai and N. Mehta (Eds.), Child-Centred Social Work in India:
Journeys and the Way Forward, London: Routledge, 2022. [ISBN: 978-1-032-19392-2]

Nigudkar, M. 2020. Rehabilitation and Social Reintegration within Juvenile Justice System in India. In D.P. Verma and S.J. Eusebius (Eds.), Juvenile Justice Law in India: A Critical Study, Bhopal: National Judicial Academy, 2020.

Nigudkar, M. 2020. Training Manual on Child Rights and Child Protection (Set of 5 Modules), Department of Women and Child Development, Government of Madhya Pradesh, UNICEF, and TISS, 2020.

Nigudkar, M. 2019. Recording and Documentation in Fieldwork. In R. Nair, S. Juvva and V.V. Nadkarni (Eds.), Field Instruction in Social Work Education: The Indian Experience, New York:
Routledge, 2019. [ISBN: 978-081-5383-87-1]

Nigudkar, M. 2018. Rehabilitation and Social Reintegration of Child in Conflict with Law, Nyaya Sandesh, Issue 2, 23–28, 2018.

Nigudkar, M. Residential Child and Youth Care Practices in Mumbai and Maharashtra. In T. Islam and L. Fulcher (Eds.), Residential Child and Youth Care in a Developing World: Middle East and Asia Perspectives, Cape Town, South Africa: The CYC-Net Press, 2018. [ISBN: 978-192-8212-37-9]

Nigudkar, M. 2015. Role of Juvenile Justice Board in Child Protection. In N. Mehta and N. Mascarenhas (Eds.), The Family Strengthening and NonInstitutional Alternative Care Approach to Child Protection, Mumbai: Family Service Centre, 2015.

Research Reports and Other Documentation

Nigudkar, M. 2019. An Assessment of ICPS Functioning in the State of Maharashtra

Nigudkar, M. 2017. Alternative Care for Children: Policy and Practice

NCPCR and TISS. 2016. A Study on the Juvenile in Conflict with Law and Administration of
Juvenile Justice System in States of Maharashtra and Rajasthan

E-Pg Patshala Modules (https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/)

1. Fieldwork Recording and Documentation

2. Monitoring, Assessment, and Evaluation in Fieldwork

3. Child: Definition and Social Construct of Child and Childhood

4. Perspectives on Child and Childhood

5. Children under the Purview of the Juvenile Justice System

6. Procedures for Working with Children in Conflict with Law: Part I

7. Procedures for Working with Children in Conflict with Law: Part II

8. Socio-Legal Approach with Children in Conflict with Law

9. Non-Institutional Care

10. Social Work with Children: An Introduction (Part I)

11. Social Work with Children: Responding to Child Vulnerability (Part II)

12. Social Work with Children: Scope and Skills (Part III)

Short Project - Documentation and preparation of SOP related to an innovative Kinship Care Model for Children in Seasonal Migration Families (in collaboration with UNICEF, Maharashtra)

Courses:

Child Rights and Child Protection: Context, Policy, and Practice

Social Work Practice with Groups

Working with Children: Skills and Interventions

Participatory Training Methodology

Resource Person for Training and Capacity Building Sessions on:

Child Vulnerability and Marginalization

Child Rights

Child Protection

Missing Children

Child in Conflict with Law

Child in Need of Care and Protection

Skills of Working with Children

Rehabilitation and Social Reintegration of Children

Fieldwork Recording and Documentation

Fieldwork Supervision

Participatory Training Methodology

Juvenile Justice System

Training- of -Trainer Programmes