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Dr. Irshad CV completed PhD in Economics (Specialisation: Health Economics) from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He completed a bachelor’s and master’s in Economics from the University of Calicut. His Ph.D. thesis titled “Healthy Ageing in India: A Mixed Methods Approach” explored various research questions on healthy ageing in India using both quantitative and qualitative tools. His thesis work proposed the first multi- dimensional Healthy Ageing Index (HAI) for the health status measurement of older adults in India. Two of the core works of his thesis was published in the Journal of Population Ageing, an official journal of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford by Springer. His extended thesis work was also presented at a conference conducted by the Asian Development Bank, Manila, with full funding support from the Government of Japan. Besides his Ph.D. thesis work, he has been extensively collaborating with various researchers in Gerontology, and published works in reputed journals. In 2021, he received a research grant from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, to study social frailty status among older adults in India.
Lacqueen Jessica Paul pursued her Bachelors in International Relations at Central University of Kerala and Masters in Politics and International Relations at Pondicherry University. Her area of interest is Irregular migration and Refugee crisis. She did her dissertation regarding the topic “Latin American Refugee Crisis: The Case in Point of Venezuela Refugee Crisis”. It is about the study that elucidates why the Latin American region is so prone to refugee situations.
MA Rural Development, IGNOU
Dr Manveen Kaur is a master’s student in Gerontology and Ageing at King’s College London. She
holds a fellowship in Geriatric Medicine and an MBBS degree from Government Medical College and
Hospital, Aurangabad. Having worked with older people from tribal, rural, and urban slums settings
in India, she brings her clinical acumen, a grassroots worker’s perspective, and a researcher’s skills together in her work.
Themrise Khan is an independent development professional and researcher with over 25 years of practitioner and policy-based experience in international development, aid effectiveness, gender, and global migration. She has worked with a vast spectrum of multilateral and bilateral organizations, INGOs and civil society organizations in Pakistan, Canada and South Asia and has a number of publications and articles to her credit. She blogs, speaks and writes actively on notions of decolonization, North-South power imbalances in development, race relations and immigrant citizenship and integration. She lives in Pakistan.
Sisira K has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Govt. Art’s College, University of Calicut, and an MA in Economics from Dr. John Matthai Centre University of Calicut. She worked as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Development Studies Trivandrum before joining the IIMAD. Her areas of research interest in the issues related to migration, mobility, gender, and climate change.
Lathika holds a Masters in Sociology from the University of Kerala and Clinical Psychology from the University of Tamil Nadu. She has worked in the capacity of a research assistant in various projects on migration, ageing and health in Kerala funded by Qatar University, Kassel University and the Tata Institute for Social Sciences. She was also a part of the recent study funded by EQUIDEM which focused on understanding the impact of COVID – 19 on GCC migrant workers. Before joining IIMAD, Lathika served as a Research Assistant at the Center for Development Studies, Thiruvanathapuram wherein she was involved in various projects on migration and ageing as field researcher and supervisor. She aims to combine her training in clinical psychology along with her knowledge of sociology to assist the society, especially migrants.