LOKNITI

Divya Vaid

Location
Lokniti
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29, Rajpur Road,
Delhi - 110054

Contact Info
Tel (Office): 91.11.23942199
Extension: 336
Email: divya.vaid.09@gmail.com

Divya Vaid joined Lokniti as an Associate Fellow in May 2009. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE) in the Department of Sociology at Yale University. Divya completed her D.Phil. in Sociology from the University of Oxford in 2007.

Divya’s postdoctoral work focused on analysing trends in educational inequalities by caste, class and gender in India over birth-cohorts. Her doctoral dissertation explored the patterns and trends of intergenerational class mobility of women and men in India, with an emphasis on both own occupational mobility and mobility through marriage. This research in particular highlighted the barriers to mobility faced by different social groups in a rapidly industrialising society. Her dissertation also explored the relationship between class and caste, and the role that caste plays in mediating the effects of class reproduction.

Research Interests: Social stratification and social change; social mobility and inequality; educational inequalities; gender inequality; social research methods, particularly quantitative methods; sociology of developing societies

Selected Publications:

Vaid, Divya and A.F. Heath (forthcoming) ‘Unequal Opportunities: Class, Caste and Social Mobility,’ in Diversity and Change in Contemporary India, edited by A.F. Heath and R. Jeffery. Proceedings of the British Academy 159: 129-164: Oxford University Press.

Vaid, Divya (2004) ‘Gendered inequality in educational transitions’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 39 (35): 3927-3938.

Vaid, Divya (2002) ‘Gendered inequality: A study of educational transitions in India’ Working Paper Number 2002-09, Department of Sociology, Oxford.