Dr Shivani Chauhan Barooah | Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Dr Shivani Chauhan Barooah

Assistant Professor
Guwahati Campus,
Assistant Professor, Centre for Community Organisation and Development Practice-Guwahati, School of Social Work - Guwahati Campus

Chairperson, Centre for Labour Studies and Social Protection, School of Social Sciences and Humanities

Qualification

M.A. in Social Work (University of Delhi), M.Phil. in Social Work (University of Delhi), Ph.D. in Social Work (University of Delhi)

Contact

shivani.barooah[at]tiss[dot]ac[dot]in

Shivani Chauhan Barooah, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
School of Social work
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Guwahati Off-Campus
Assam
India -781013

Tel # +91-361-2739500

Shivani Chauhan Barooah has done her M.A in Social work from Delhi School of Social Work, University of Delhi and subsequently her M. Phil and Ph. D. in Social work from University of Delhi. She was awarded the UGC NET-JRF in social work in 2003.

Shivani has a keen interest in languages and was awarded the Alliance Française de Delhi and French Embassy Scholarship for “Best student (2007) of Alliance Française de Delhi” for Higher Studies in France in 2008. She completed her Master 1 (Sociologie) from Université Pierre-Mendès-France-Grenoble2 in 2009. She obtained the DALF C2 in the French language in 2009 and subsequently the DAEFLE (Diplôme d'aptitude à l'Enseignement du Français Langue Etrangère-Diploma of Teaching of French as a Foreign Language) in 2010.

She is actively engaged in teaching, fieldwork supervision, research supervision, fieldwork coordination, and administrative activities at Tata Institute of Social Sciences-Guwahati Off-Campus.

Shivani is an Internal Committee (IC) member under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal), Act-2013, at Indradhanush Gas Grid Limited (IGGL), Dispur Polyclinic and Hospitals Pvt. Ltd. and Guwahati Refinery, Indian Oil Corporation Limited.

She has also attended/completed the following trainings/workshops and courses:

Participant at the Master Trainers' Training programme organized by School of Vocational Education, TISS Mumbai from June 17, 2015- June 20, 2015.
Participant and Junior Coach at the Impact Week North East India 2018 organized by Indian Institute of Entreprenuership, Guwahati and Impact week from December 12, 2018 - December 20, 2018.
Successfully completed and received a passing grade in SW47x: Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies a course of study offered by HarvardX, an online learning initiative of Harvard University on August 28, 2020.
Participant in the Online Workshop “Radical Transformational Leadership for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” 2021
Successfully completed one week online Faculty Development Programme on “National Education Policy 2020: Re-Envisioning Higher Education in India” from 30 August- 07 September, 2021 conducted byTeaching Learning Centre, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi in collaboration with Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas under the aegis of Ministry of Education, PMMMNMTT
Attended the 5th Short Term Course on Gender Sensitization and Social Justice, organized by the UGC Human Resource Development Centre- Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi from November 8- November 13, 2021
Participant in the Online Workshop “Radical Transformational Leadership Here and Now 2021"
Successfully completed the "RTL-Stewardship for Radical Transformation: Stage -II 2021-22" in online mode.
Successfully completed the "RTL Practitioner Coach program for 2022" in online mode.

Decent work

Informal economy

Women and work

Human Resource Management

Labour Laws

Social Legislations

Education

Urban Governance

Geriatric and child care

Design Thinking

Periodicals:

Chauhan Barooah, S., Bhatt, S., & Shailesh (2023). World Social Work Day and India. Social Work Chronicle, 12(1), 1-12.
Chauhan Barooah, S. (2021, October 31). Decent work for domestic workers: Reality or dream?. Niyor. 2-4
Bezbaruah, R. & Chauhan Barooah, S. (2021). Digital Education, Learning Crisis and Children: The Case of Assam. Children First: Journal on Children's Lives. 1(1). 135-143
Chauhan Barooah, S. (2020, June 28). Women at risk. The Assam Tribune: http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/at.asp?id=jun2820/Page14
Chauhan Barooah, S. (2016). Organizing home based workers for decent work The case of SEWA in Ahmedabad. Journal of Social work Education, Research and Action. 2(2), June 2016. ISSN 2394-4102
Chauhan Barooah, S. (2015). Decent work for women home-based workers in Ahmedabad. Journal of Social work Education, Research and Action. 1(2), May-August 2015 pp. 68-82 ISSN NO. 2394-4102
Bhatt, S. & Chauhan,S.(2011). Right to Decent Work for Workers in the Informal Economy, Contemporary Social Work, 3(1), January- June 2011 ISSN 0975-1793

Chapter(s) in Edited Volume:

Chauhan Barooah, S. (2021). Even Lockdown could not change my routine. In S. Bhatt (Ed.), Life under Lockdown: Lived experiences and Lessons Learnt (pp. 123-134). New Delhi: Papyrus Scrolls Publications ISBN: 9788195385102
Thomas, N.P & Chauhan Barooah, S. (2019). Indigenous Social Movements: A study of Lohit Youth Library Movement, Arunachal Pradesh, India. In U. K. Popli and A. K. Singh (Eds.), Indigenising social work practice in India (pp.299-318). New Delhi: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 9789389351576
Chauhan Barooah, S. (2015). Decent Work for Home-Based Workers: Implications for Social Work. In S. Bhatt and S. Pathare (Eds.), Social work education and practice engagement. (pp.233-240). New Delhi: Shipra Publications ISBN: 978817541757

Book(s):

Chauhan Barooah, S. (2021). Decent work and Home-based women workers. Delhi: AlterNotes Press ISBN: 9788194993193

Research Consultancy for Bal Raksha Bharat (Save The Children) : Need assessment study in Kamrup, Assam (December 2023)

Foundation Courses (units in FC2, FC3, FC4)

Master of Arts in Social Work

SW7-Human Resource Management -Princples and practices

SW2- History and ideologies of social work

Master of Arts in Social Work in Community Organisation and Development Practice

CD4- Urbanization, Governance and Informal work

CD9- Development Communications

CD7- Law, Society and Development

Master of Arts in Labour Studies and Social Protection

LSSS16- Organizing informal labour

LSSP03- Work, organizations and Industrial relations

LSSP5- Informal economy and informal employment

LSSP11- Labour Laws in India

LSSP18- International Labour Standards and Decent work

LSSP19- International Financial Institutions

Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences

Modern Indian Language-Hindi

SS- Self study (Industry and Labour)

TC2 SS- Self Study (Social work)

Psychology Major 2- Human Resource Management