Institute of Social Studies Trust

About Institute of Social Studies Trust

The Institute of Social Studies Trust (ISST) is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation headquartered in New Delhi, India. ISST's overall aim is research for social change with a focus on livelihood, work and well-being of vulnerable communities from a gender perspective.

ISST attempts to bridge the gaps between research, action and policy with objectives of promoting social justice and equity for the underprivileged. ISST adopts a multi-disciplinary research approach. The scope of research ranges from analysis of macro level policies and data to micro level action research in India and beyond.

Contact Details

https://www.isstindia.org/

Meet the team

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Mubashira Zaidi

Research Fellow
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Mubashira Zaidi is the Co-Investigator for India on the SuPWR project, and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi . In her research capacity, Mubashira has contributed to policy research and analysis in the area of women’s economic empowerment. She is also a doctorand at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, where she is exploring the existential meaning and value of work for women in the informal sector. Mubashira has a Master’s degree in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
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Anweshaa Ghosh

Research Fellow
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Anweshaa Ghosh is an Indian feminist and qualitative researcher working in the field of women and work for over a decade. Her areas of interest include women’s unpaid and care work, platform economy, domestic work and the contemporary labour and women’s movement in India. Presently, she is a Research Fellow with ISST and has been part of and led various researches across India and in the South Asian region. She has also played a definite role in designing and operating the online course on gender transformative evaluations run by ISST. She is now part of the four member India SuPWR team.

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