Ashirwad Wakade is Ph.D. Scholar at NIAS. Before inducting as a Ph.D. student at the institute, he worked with Indian-Political Action Committee(I-PAC) for the West Bengal State Assembly elections. He also worked as a Project Associate with Azim Premji University for developing India-Covid Assessment and Response Dashboard. He was also a consultant for the Telangana Government’s Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society.
He has completed his Master of Arts in Education (Elementary) from Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai(TISS), and Bachelor of Science in Physics at Fergusson College, Pune.
Ashirwad is working with Dr. Shivali Tukdeo. His areas of interest include Sociology of Education, Rural Higher Education, Politics and Higher Education, and Education Policy.