Suparba Sil, MPhil
Bundes-Exzellenz-Research Fellow
suparba.sil@unilu.ch
Frohburgstrasse 3, Lucerne
Room 3.A20
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Suparba Sil is a Visiting Researcher under the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship, at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Lucerne. She is pursuing her Doctoral Research at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Her Doctoral Research attempts to contrast the role of ‘technology’, ‘state’, ‘market’ and ‘society’ in the ‘adoption, dissemination and domestication’ of Assisted Reproductive Technology in India and Switzerland.
Suparba holds an MPhil in Sociology from Jadavpur University, a Master's in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics, and a Bachelor's degree in Sociology from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, India. While pursuing her Masters, she received the Krishna Raj Summer Travel Fellowship for her work on ‘post-riot space’ based in the riot-affected refugee camps of Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Alongside establishing her academic career, Suparba has worked as a researcher/ research consultant with the Indian Council of Social Science Research, The George Institute for Global Health, India, I-TECH India and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation. In her capacity as a researcher and research consultant, she has worked on the socio-economic impact assessment of multiple intervention programs and policy-based research projects in the domain of post-riot space and rehabilitation, mental health, reproductive health and technology and the right to health.
Publications
- ‘The Perils of the Pandemic and India’s Child Victims of Covid- 19’ in the International Journal of Child Health and Nutrition.
Link: https://www.lifescienceglobal.com/pms/index.php/ijchn/article/view/8530 - “Muzzafarnagar: The Politics of Post-Truth and Hindu Nationalism” in Subversions (vol 8): ISSN 2347-9426. Link: http://subversions.tiss.edu/vol-8/suparba-sil/
- “Policy as a Discourse: An Exploration of Assisted Reproductive Technology Regulations in India”, IMPRR, vol 2(2), ISSN: 2583-3464
- https://iprr.impriindia.com/policy-discourse-exploration-assisted-reproductive-technology/
