Priyadarshini Dey [ Assistant Professor in Sociology, Amity University Kolkata ]

Priyadarshini Dey, PhD in Sociology from Jadavpur University, has more than 9.5 years of experience in teaching and research. Her specializations are in the field of sociology of education and technology. Priyadarshini is working as an Assistant Professor in Sociology, Amity University Kolkata, India. She is also an education consultant with Quest Alliance for their STEM education Vertical. She is also Co-founder-Directorof a social venture named NexConnect Ventures Pvt Ltd since 2017. Priyadarshini started off her career as a Senior Teacher at Calcutta International School, Kolkata 2012. Throughout 2012 and 13 Priyadarshini was involved in many teaching activities under the University of Calcutta in India. In 2013 she joined Indian Institute of Management Calcutta as Research Associate with the Social Informatics Research Group. During her tenure of six years, she has been associated with several Action Research Projects focusing on access to quality learning and teaching to the remotest parts of the country. As part of the research group, she worked on projects such as “Ageing Well through Social Technologies”, “Bridging the education divide through social technology” and “Some Social Business studies” at ITRA-sponsored research underMeiTy (Ministry of IT, Govt of India). She was instrumental in research design, planning, execution, analysis and writing academic papers on several research projects. In 2019 Priyadarshini joined Transform Rural India as a Rural Transformation and Mentor in Entrepreneurship and remained there on contract till 2020. Priyadarshini is also a visiting lecturer in Sociology at Jadavpur University from 2019 to 2021. [view more]