I have developed strong methodological skills for studying understudied, under-theorised, and interdisciplinary educational phenomena. I contribute across multiple formats, including peer-reviewed journal articles, book projects, and media publications and have presented my research widely at international conferences spanning education, public policy, and organisational behaviour.
Published Peer-Reviewed Articles:
Kumar, N., & Misra, D. (2024). International centres of overseas universities in global south: Lessons from India. International Higher Education. (Link)
Method: Mapping (scoping, case study) using semi-structured interviews with academic and administrative staff; website analysis.
Conference: Presented at Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE), UK (Dec 2021, online).
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)
Method: Systematic literature review using journal articles from Web of Science, ERIC, and Scopus.
Book Under Pipeline:
International University Centres: An Emerging Approach to Internationalisation of Higher Education. (with D. Misra, IIT Delhi and UCL)
Status: Monograph proposal approved by series editors, under peer review at Palgrave Macmillan
Method: Mapping (scoping, case study) using semi-structured interviews with academic and administrative staff; website analysis.
Research Articles Under Pipeline:
Examining transformational leadership alchemy in teachers: An integrative moderated-mediation analysis. (with F. Khan, IIMA)
Status: Under review at Motivation and Emotion.
Method: Structural equation modelling using primary survey of government school teachers.
Conference: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (July, 2024. Link).
Organisational identity of international university centres. (with D. Misra, IIT Delhi and Y. Cai, Tampere University)
Status: Received comments and rejection after desk clearance at Organization Studies; revised submission targeting Studies in Higher Education.
Method: Case study using semi-structured interviews with academic and administrative staff.
Conference: Presented at Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER), Luxembourg (Sept 2024).
"It is like we are the foot soldiers, and they are our generals": Institutionalising inequality through research professionalisation. (with D. Misra)
Status: Selected for full paper submission to special issue of Globalisation, Societies and Education.
Method: Narrative inquiry using semi-structured interviews with academic and administrative staff.
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)
PhD Thesis:
Awarded Best Thesis Proposal at the Doctoral Colloquium on Management and Development, Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA), India (Nov 2023).
Mapping fellowship programmes in India: Models and narratives of youth engagement. (with A. Sarin)
Method: Mapping (scoping) using website analysis, annual reports, semi-structured interviews with programme founders and team members.
Conference: Presented at IRMA Doctoral Colloquium, India (Nov 2023).
Sociopolitical development of fellows: Role and influence of fellowship programmes. (with A. Sarin)
Method: Mixed methods (reflexive thematic analysis, regression analysis) using semi-structured interviews and survey of youth fellows.
Conference: Presented at American Educational Research Association (AERA), Philadelphia, USA (April 2024).
Competing logics in fellowship programmes: Fellows' narrative accounts of tensions and navigational strategies. (with A. Sarin)
Method: Narrative inquiry using semi-structured interviews with youth fellows.
Conference: Presented at European Group for Organisational Studies (EGOS), Milan, Italy (July 2024).
Other Working Papers:
Mapping as a methodology to study understudied and under-theorised phenomena. (with A. Sarin, IIMA and P. Raj, UCL)
Method: Systematic literature review, reflective analysis using journal articles and reflective notes from collaborative projects.
To whom does the street belong? Unravelling the discourses on India's Street Vendors Act, 2014 (with V. Jha, IIMA).
Method: Critical discourse analysis using semi-structured interviews with street vendors, legislative text, and media articles.
Conferences: XVII International Conference on Public Policy & Management, IIM Bangalore (Aug 2022); 5th International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP), Barcelona (July 2021, online).