Prof. Shivakumar’s primary research interests are Data analytics, Education policy, and Human development. He studies the structural challenges faced by the government schools and examines ways to reorganize school system for better functionality. In recent years, he has worked on drain of enrollment in government schools in Karnataka, school consolidation, Right to Education, and learning level crisis.
He received his PhD in theoretical condensed matter Physics and doctoral minor in Demography from Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA. Prior to joining FLAME, Jolad taught courses in Physics, education history and policy, and demographic methods for graduate and undergraduate students at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar. In Public health, Jolad has worked on modelling epidemic spreading in urban areas, and health services access and utilization. He is one of the co-authors of Ahmedabad District Human Development Report 2016.
Apart from academic work, Jolad has worked with several Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) such as Akshara Foundation, Pratham, People’s Health Movement (PHM)-India and AID-India on projects related to public health and elementary education.
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