Niyathi R Krishna

I’m a feminist researcher and academic working at the crossroads of gender, care labour, and motherhood

About dr. niyathi R krishna

Background

I am currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Development Studies at Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development (RGNIYD) under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Govt. of India. I have worked as Sir Ratan Tata Post-Doctoral Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom during 2023-24. I am also the recipient of ‘JIWS fellowship’ (2023) by Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts, USA.

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Skills

Background

My research is rooted in qualitative methodologies, drawing on ontological, epistemological, and phenomenological perspectives, and informed by feminist theory.

I have undertaken research projects such as 'A Narrative Study of Cyber Sex Workers in India', 'Narrative Ethnography of Interstate Seasonal Migrant Women in Punjab, India’, 'The

My research is rooted in qualitative methodologies, drawing on ontological, epistemological, and phenomenological perspectives, and informed by feminist theory.

I have undertaken research projects such as 'A Narrative Study of Cyber Sex Workers in India', 'Narrative Ethnography of Interstate Seasonal Migrant Women in Punjab, India’, 'The Tripartite Work at Home: Engendering the Covid-19 Lockdown in Kerala' and 'Gendered Experiences of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) in Kerala'.
I have thirteen years of research experience and nine years of teaching experience.

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Education

Background

Education

I have PhD from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee (University Grants Commission-Junior Research Fellowship) and Masters Degrees in Women Studies and Development Studies. I have also completed various short-term courses from international agencies such as International Training Centre-International Labor Organization (ITC-ILO); United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR); United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and PEDRR; UNESCO-MGIEP; and academic institutions such as Stanford University; IIT Bombay; IIT Guwahati; and University of Delhi.

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RECENT RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS (2024-25)

https://doi.org/10.1177/00195561251338111

https://doi.org/10.1080/13229400.2024.2355148

Krishna, N. R. (2025). Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (OSH) Code, 2020 and Interstate Women Migrants: A Gender Integrative Evaluation. Indian Journal of Public Administration, 71(2), p. 406-11. Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/13229400.2024.2355148

Krishna, N. R.(2024). “The Care Crisis within”: Gender Division of Labour and Care Work in Middle-class Families in Kerala during the Pandemic. Journal of Family Studies, 30(5), p.927-46. Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/25166026241290671

https://doi.org/10.1080/13229400.2024.2355148

https://doi.org/10.1177/25166026241290671

Krishna, N. R. (2024). Empowering or Exhausting? Covid-19 Experiences of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) in Kerala. The International Journal of Community and Social Development, 6(4), p. 399-417. Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/09722661241246837

www.orfonline.org/public/uploads/posts/pdf/20231214102519.pdf

https://doi.org/10.1177/25166026241290671

Krishna, N. R., Sivakumar, P., Subramani, S., and Rajan, S.I. (2024). Covid-19, Internal Transitions and Vulnerable Citizens: Narratives of Migrant Crisis in India during the Pandemic. Review of Development and Change, 29(1), p.5-24. Link

https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.26.04

www.orfonline.org/public/uploads/posts/pdf/20231214102519.pdf

Krishna, N. R.and Sivakumar, P. (2023). Reproducing Home as a Space of Labour: The Great Indian Kitchen and Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hai. Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 26, p.58-73. Link

www.orfonline.org/public/uploads/posts/pdf/20231214102519.pdf

Sivakumar, P. and Krishna, N. R. (2023). Policy Perspectives in Bridging Gender Disparity in STEM. In Shamika Ravi and Arundhatie Biswas (Eds.), The ORF Gender Compendium: India’s G20 and Women led Development (pp.79-93). Observer Research Foundation.