Profile
Prachi Srivastava is tenured Associate Professor in the area of global education focusing on education and international development, University of Western Ontario, Canada. She is also Member of the World Bank Expert Advisory Council on Citizen Engagement. Her other academic affiliations are with the School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa, Centre for Global Studies, Huron College, and Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for International Education, University of Sussex. She holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford.
Dr. Srivastava has held visiting academic appointments with Columbia University, University of Oxford, and the National University of Singapore. Prior to joining the University of Western Ontario, she held academic appointments at the University of Ottawa, University of Sussex, and the University of Oxford. Before entering academia she served as Civil Affairs Officer (Regional Education) with the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, and also headed the first minority education integration programme for Roma and Ashkalia children in Kosovo for the International Rescue Committee.
Dr. Srivastava has held visiting academic appointments with Columbia University, University of Oxford, and the National University of Singapore. Prior to joining the University of Western Ontario, she held academic appointments at the University of Ottawa, University of Sussex, and the University of Oxford. Before entering academia she served as Civil Affairs Officer (Regional Education) with the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, and also headed the first minority education integration programme for Roma and Ashkalia children in Kosovo for the International Rescue Committee.
Research At a GlanceCurrently, Dr. Srivastava is working on the global education emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. She is leading a high-level policy brief for the T20 Task Force on COVID-19, which will feed into the 2020 G20 Summit, and has also provided recommendations for the Ontario Ministry of Education based on this work. She has been interviewed and provided commentary in a number of media outlets on pandemic education effects, including CBC News Network, CBC Radio-Canada, Global News, The Agenda with Steve Paikin, and The Globe & Mail.
Dr. Srivastava's long-term research interests are: non-state private sector engagement in education; global philanthropy and impact investment; private schooling and education privatisation; silent exclusion in and from education; and global education policy and the right to education in the Global South. She is recognised for coining the term, ‘low-fee private schooling’, and was one of the first researchers of the field. Based on her work on non-state private engagement and global education policy, Dr. Srivastava has provided research evidence to the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Education for All (British Parliament), DFID UK, European Commission, Global Affairs Canada, JICA, the United Nations Inter-Parliamentary Union, UNESCO, and the World Bank, among others, and has been commissioned to conduct research by DFID, the European Commission, and UNESCO. She has been interviewed in and contributed to a number of national and international media outlets on global education and political issues, including The Economist, The Guardian, Devex, Vrij Nederland, L’actualité, CBC Radio-Canada. She is a signatory to the Abidjan Principles on the human rights obligations of States to provide public education and to regulate private involvement in education. |
RESEARCH INTERESTS
CUrrent Projects & OpportunitiesDr. Srivastava has attracted nearly $1 million in external research funding. She has recently directed a major collaborative research program on non-state actors and the right to education funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, with two major projects:
Insights into Education: a major international collaborative research program on the right to education and the role of non-state private actors Invest-ED: a research project on private investment in education in Asia. There are opportunities for further collaboration on the datasets that outlive the term of these programs. Interested research partners and students are encouraged to contact her for potential opportunities. |