Riya Chaudhary
- Email: bnrsc@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: What pushes Community Health Workers to Work? A study of ASHA workers in India
- Supervisors: Dr Jana Javornik, Dr Helen Norman, Professor Charles Umney, Dr Asiya Islam
Profile
I joined the PhD program in Business and Economic Studies in the People, Work, and Employment (PWED) department of LUBS in October 2023, funded by the People, Work, and Employment Department Scholarship. Before commencing my PhD journey, I worked for two years from 2019 to 2021 in the Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Project initiative by the National Rural Livelihood Mission, a poverty eradication program in India. I worked there with the women to set up enterprises in the Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh, India. Moving to the academic and research space, I worked at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, as an Academic and Research Associate. I coordinated with over 15 community-based organisations to distribute COVID-19 safety equipment kits in rural India to frontline health Workers (FLHWs). I have also worked on a research project to understand the working conditions of the FLHWs and measures that can be taken to improve them.
Research interests
My research interest areas are gender, care work, intersectionality, welfare state policies, labour market, labour force participation, decolonial feminism
Qualifications
- M.A in Social Work (Livelihoods and Social Entrepreneurship)
- Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai