Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Social Sciences, FLAME University; PhD (defence awaiting) in Social Gerontology, IIT Gandhinagar; MA Social Anthropology, Queen’s University of Belfast (UK); BSc in Anthropology Hons., University of Delhi

Ashwin Tripathi is trained as an Anthropologist with expertise in Ageing Studies. Her broad areas of interests include social gerontology, anthropology of everyday living and research methodologies (specifically, time-use methods). During her PhD, she has received training in quantitative approaches to social science research. She has submitted her thesis in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. She was a visiting faculty member at Krea University, where she taught courses on family sociology and quantitative methods. She is currently exploring big data on time-use from India and studying different methodological aspects of these nationally representative datasets (LASI and NSSO-TUS). Her research has been previously funded by the British Council and the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) (under Newton Bhabha PhD Placement Program) and the United Nations Population Fund in Aging (fieldwork grant). She currently serves as an editor for the Irish Journal of Anthropology, based out of Queen’s University of Belfast.