Nirved Kumar PhD IIMA

Published Peer-Reviewed Articles:

Kumar, N., & Misra, D. (2024). International centres of overseas universities in global south: Lessons from India. International Higher Education. (Link)

Kumar, N., Cook, EJ., Fayda-Kinik, FS. & Maisuradze, L. (2024). ICTs influence on knowledge sharing in higher education: A pre-AI systematic literature review. European Journal of Education. (Link)

Book Under Pipeline:

International University Centres: An Emerging Approach to Internationalisation of Higher Education. (with D. Misra, IIT Delhi and UCL)

Research Articles Under Pipeline:

Examining transformational leadership alchemy in teachers: An integrative moderated-mediation analysis. (with F. Khan, IIMA)

Status: Second stage R&R at Journal of Educational Administration

"It is like we are the foot soldiers, and they are our generals": Institutionalising inequality through research professionalisation. (with D. Misra)

Status: Under review at Globalisation, Societies and Education.

Organisational identity of international university centres. (with D. Misra, IIT Delhi)

Status: Received comments and rejection after desk clearance at Organization Studies; revised submission targeting Studies in Higher Education.

Other publications:

Kumar, N. (2024). Book Review: Elgar Encyclopedia of Nonprofit Management, Leadership and Governance. VOLUNTAS:International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. (Link)

Kumar, N. (2023). Decolonising Indian business and management education, knowledge and practice. United Kingdom Forum for International Education and Training (UKFIET). (Link)

Other Working Papers:

Career liminality and family entanglement in fellowship programs (with Stefanie Gustafsson, University of Bath)

Mapping as a methodology to study understudied and under-theorised phenomena. (with A. Sarin, IIMA and P. Raj, UCL)

To whom does the street belong? Unravelling the discourses on India's Street Vendors Act, 2014 (with V. Jha, IIMA).

Working papers from PhD thesis (with Ankur Sarin):

Mapping fellowship programs in India: Models and narratives of youth engagement

Sociopolitical development of fellows: Role and influence of fellowship programs

Competing logics in fellowship programs: Fellows’ narrative accounts of tensions and navigational strategies

Courses studied as part of the doctoral journey:

Doctoral Courses

Analysing and Evaluating Education Policy
Change and Innovation in Education
Economics of Education
Education Theory, Policy and Practice
Enterprise and Innovation in Education
Foundation Course in HRM
Foundation in International Strategic Management
Good Governance and People Living in Poverty
How to Motivate Students for Learning?
Mathematics
Microeconomics
Psychology
Public Policy
Socio-Political Contexts for Research in Management

Methodology Courses

Advanced Quantitative Techniques for Social Science Research
Applied Quantitative Techniques in Educational Research
Communication for Management Teachers
Econometrics
Methods of Qualitative Research: Gathering and Analyzing Data
Qualitative Methods (Research Methods 1)
Qualitative Research Methods in Education
Quantitative Methods (Research Methods 2)
Quantitative Methods (1A and 1B)
Research Approaches within Organisational Behaviour
Research Communication
Structural Equation Modeling
Using Quantitative Methods for Causal Inference in Social Policy Research
Designing and Running Randomized Evaluations by MITx (as part of Research for Impact fellowship)

Methodological proficiency:

Qualitative traditions: Interpretative, post-traditions, post-positivist approaches, and critical analysis

Quantitative: Econometrics, causal analysis, structural equation modelling, inferential and descriptive statistics

Mixed-method(s) and multi-method(s)

Softwares: SPSS, STATA, R, ATLAS.ti, MAXQDA