Prof Prachi Srivastava
@prachisrivas.bsky.social
Education and global development, University of Adelaide | World Bank Expert Advisory Council on Citizen Engagement
Previous: UN, University of Oxford, University of Sussex, IRC
https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/prachi.srivastava
Previous: UN, University of Oxford, University of Sussex, IRC
https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/prachi.srivastava
Wonderful to be at the DevED25 Conference in Melbourne on education and global development - a new forum for ideas and practice exchange.
Looking forward to learning from colleagues from academia and international NGOs and agencies working on education challenges in Asia and the Pacific.
Looking forward to learning from colleagues from academia and international NGOs and agencies working on education challenges in Asia and the Pacific.
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Wonderful to be at the DevED25 Conference in Melbourne on education and global development - a new forum for ideas and practice exchange.
Looking forward to learning from colleagues from academia and international NGOs and agencies working on education challenges in Asia and the Pacific.
Looking forward to learning from colleagues from academia and international NGOs and agencies working on education challenges in Asia and the Pacific.
Heading off to Melbourne! Kicking off the week with my talk:
Private Schooling Preserving Capital: Beyond Caste-based Educational Exclusion as 'Tradition' for the INDEPTH network session with @unimelb.bsky.social @australianare.bsky.social
Join us: Monday, 10 November 3 pm MEL in person/online
Private Schooling Preserving Capital: Beyond Caste-based Educational Exclusion as 'Tradition' for the INDEPTH network session with @unimelb.bsky.social @australianare.bsky.social
Join us: Monday, 10 November 3 pm MEL in person/online
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Heading off to Melbourne! Kicking off the week with my talk:
Private Schooling Preserving Capital: Beyond Caste-based Educational Exclusion as 'Tradition' for the INDEPTH network session with @unimelb.bsky.social @australianare.bsky.social
Join us: Monday, 10 November 3 pm MEL in person/online
Private Schooling Preserving Capital: Beyond Caste-based Educational Exclusion as 'Tradition' for the INDEPTH network session with @unimelb.bsky.social @australianare.bsky.social
Join us: Monday, 10 November 3 pm MEL in person/online
Actually reminds me of a pointy lotus - one of my ab fab flowers!
October 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Actually reminds me of a pointy lotus - one of my ab fab flowers!
Heartbroken, like countless across the world, to have woken up to the news of the passing of Jane Goodall. Her fierce passion and audacious hope in connection and communication across boundaries - human, animal, and otherwise - as the lifeforce is a lesson for us all.
October 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Heartbroken, like countless across the world, to have woken up to the news of the passing of Jane Goodall. Her fierce passion and audacious hope in connection and communication across boundaries - human, animal, and otherwise - as the lifeforce is a lesson for us all.
Wonderful to have a few days in London. Grateful to have visited The LSE and share ideas and learn about new work.
Cherry on top: MARY MARY exhibition at The Artist's Garden, a public art exhibition by women artists. Candida Powell-Williams's 'Auguries through the Mist', struck me.
Cherry on top: MARY MARY exhibition at The Artist's Garden, a public art exhibition by women artists. Candida Powell-Williams's 'Auguries through the Mist', struck me.
September 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Wonderful to have a few days in London. Grateful to have visited The LSE and share ideas and learn about new work.
Cherry on top: MARY MARY exhibition at The Artist's Garden, a public art exhibition by women artists. Candida Powell-Williams's 'Auguries through the Mist', struck me.
Cherry on top: MARY MARY exhibition at The Artist's Garden, a public art exhibition by women artists. Candida Powell-Williams's 'Auguries through the Mist', struck me.
I also engaged with doctoral students in a Roundtable Presentation, 'Epistemic Humility as Experienced Provocation'.
Thank you to the wonderful colleagues who took such care, asked such thoughtful questions, and showed me beautiful Bristol with scrumptious food, tea, and cake!
Thank you to the wonderful colleagues who took such care, asked such thoughtful questions, and showed me beautiful Bristol with scrumptious food, tea, and cake!
September 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I also engaged with doctoral students in a Roundtable Presentation, 'Epistemic Humility as Experienced Provocation'.
Thank you to the wonderful colleagues who took such care, asked such thoughtful questions, and showed me beautiful Bristol with scrumptious food, tea, and cake!
Thank you to the wonderful colleagues who took such care, asked such thoughtful questions, and showed me beautiful Bristol with scrumptious food, tea, and cake!
Brilliant time at @soebristol.bsky.social meeting colleagues and working on research ideas this week. It was especially invigorating to present the invited talk, 'Private Education Capital: Beyond Caste-based Educational Exclusion as "Tradition"' at Centre for International Research in Education.
September 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Brilliant time at @soebristol.bsky.social meeting colleagues and working on research ideas this week. It was especially invigorating to present the invited talk, 'Private Education Capital: Beyond Caste-based Educational Exclusion as "Tradition"' at Centre for International Research in Education.
The symbolism was not lost on me - discussing epistemic humility and epistemic justice in a room with an old portrait of the Bishop of Calcutta during colonial times and a new portrait of the leading professor, Prof Aditi Lahiri, born in (then) a newly independent Calcutta.
September 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The symbolism was not lost on me - discussing epistemic humility and epistemic justice in a room with an old portrait of the Bishop of Calcutta during colonial times and a new portrait of the leading professor, Prof Aditi Lahiri, born in (then) a newly independent Calcutta.
Join us today for 'Relational Ecologies of Knowledge and Practice: A Workshop of the Epistemic Justice Network', following from the @unesco.org Chairs Forum in Dakar.
@ukfiet.bsky.social UKFIET Conference in Oxford, Wednesday, 17 September, 13:30-15:00
@ukfiet.bsky.social UKFIET Conference in Oxford, Wednesday, 17 September, 13:30-15:00
September 17, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Join us today for 'Relational Ecologies of Knowledge and Practice: A Workshop of the Epistemic Justice Network', following from the @unesco.org Chairs Forum in Dakar.
@ukfiet.bsky.social UKFIET Conference in Oxford, Wednesday, 17 September, 13:30-15:00
@ukfiet.bsky.social UKFIET Conference in Oxford, Wednesday, 17 September, 13:30-15:00
A week of Oxford!
Started with a beautiful day yesterday at the special BE2 event ‘The Use of AI in Education: Evidence and Use’, on the grounds of St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford.
Lovely to connect with colleagues and friends, old and new!
Started with a beautiful day yesterday at the special BE2 event ‘The Use of AI in Education: Evidence and Use’, on the grounds of St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford.
Lovely to connect with colleagues and friends, old and new!
September 16, 2025 at 6:29 AM
A week of Oxford!
Started with a beautiful day yesterday at the special BE2 event ‘The Use of AI in Education: Evidence and Use’, on the grounds of St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford.
Lovely to connect with colleagues and friends, old and new!
Started with a beautiful day yesterday at the special BE2 event ‘The Use of AI in Education: Evidence and Use’, on the grounds of St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford.
Lovely to connect with colleagues and friends, old and new!
Tell me again how 'AI is going to revolutionise education' when roughly a quarter of primary schools globally don't even have electricity, toilets, drinking water, and basic WASH facilities.
It's 1925 in 2025 for 25% of schools in the world.
It's 1925 in 2025 for 25% of schools in the world.
August 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Tell me again how 'AI is going to revolutionise education' when roughly a quarter of primary schools globally don't even have electricity, toilets, drinking water, and basic WASH facilities.
It's 1925 in 2025 for 25% of schools in the world.
It's 1925 in 2025 for 25% of schools in the world.
Call for papers: The Oceania Comparative and International Education Society (OCIES), 53rd Annual Conference, 'Education, Knowledge and Power in the Asia-Pacific'.
23–26 November 2025, University of Canterbury in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand.
ocies.org/ocies-53rd-a...
#EduSky
23–26 November 2025, University of Canterbury in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand.
ocies.org/ocies-53rd-a...
#EduSky
July 8, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Call for papers: The Oceania Comparative and International Education Society (OCIES), 53rd Annual Conference, 'Education, Knowledge and Power in the Asia-Pacific'.
23–26 November 2025, University of Canterbury in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand.
ocies.org/ocies-53rd-a...
#EduSky
23–26 November 2025, University of Canterbury in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand.
ocies.org/ocies-53rd-a...
#EduSky
Lovely to give the keynote 'On Epistemic Humility: storytelling, positionalities, and just survival in/through research', for the Higher Degree Research Forum, University of South Australia.
I draw on post-colonial, Black, and Indigenous scholarship to problematise what we know and how we know.
I draw on post-colonial, Black, and Indigenous scholarship to problematise what we know and how we know.
July 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Lovely to give the keynote 'On Epistemic Humility: storytelling, positionalities, and just survival in/through research', for the Higher Degree Research Forum, University of South Australia.
I draw on post-colonial, Black, and Indigenous scholarship to problematise what we know and how we know.
I draw on post-colonial, Black, and Indigenous scholarship to problematise what we know and how we know.
And much less eloquent, an earlier piece by me in The Montreal Gazette in 1994 describing the moment we heard. It strikes me now, in line with Dr Thampi's observations, that it was relegated to the 'Relationships' page next to a column on 40th birthday angst and an Anne Landers advice column.
June 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
And much less eloquent, an earlier piece by me in The Montreal Gazette in 1994 describing the moment we heard. It strikes me now, in line with Dr Thampi's observations, that it was relegated to the 'Relationships' page next to a column on 40th birthday angst and an Anne Landers advice column.
Here is a piece I wrote in The Montreal Gazette in 1994.
I describe the moment we heard the news of the bombing - I was 10 at the time of the attack.
It still feels the same - like yesterday and an eternity all at once. 🤍
I describe the moment we heard the news of the bombing - I was 10 at the time of the attack.
It still feels the same - like yesterday and an eternity all at once. 🤍
June 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Here is a piece I wrote in The Montreal Gazette in 1994.
I describe the moment we heard the news of the bombing - I was 10 at the time of the attack.
It still feels the same - like yesterday and an eternity all at once. 🤍
I describe the moment we heard the news of the bombing - I was 10 at the time of the attack.
It still feels the same - like yesterday and an eternity all at once. 🤍
My fun memory was the cartoon by the talented (then PhD student) Kalifa Damani during my talk on silent exclusion at @realcentre.bsky.social in January 2020 before the world shut, and many fun moments with @paulinemrose.bsky.social over the years.
Congratulations! The achievements are remarkable.
Congratulations! The achievements are remarkable.
June 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
My fun memory was the cartoon by the talented (then PhD student) Kalifa Damani during my talk on silent exclusion at @realcentre.bsky.social in January 2020 before the world shut, and many fun moments with @paulinemrose.bsky.social over the years.
Congratulations! The achievements are remarkable.
Congratulations! The achievements are remarkable.
Former PM of Australia Julia Gillard is the first keynote speaker, highlighting the recognisable world we are in now than in 2015 when the REAL Centre started - promise in the SDGs, before COVID, before the current US administration, and mass ODA cuts.
June 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Former PM of Australia Julia Gillard is the first keynote speaker, highlighting the recognisable world we are in now than in 2015 when the REAL Centre started - promise in the SDGs, before COVID, before the current US administration, and mass ODA cuts.
Look what came in the post!
Delighted to get my copy of Transforming Development in Education: From Coloniality to Rethinking, Reframing and Reimagining Possibilities with my chapter: 'Why is Epistemic Humility Provocative? A reflexive story'.
Open access!
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-o...
Delighted to get my copy of Transforming Development in Education: From Coloniality to Rethinking, Reframing and Reimagining Possibilities with my chapter: 'Why is Epistemic Humility Provocative? A reflexive story'.
Open access!
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-o...
May 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Look what came in the post!
Delighted to get my copy of Transforming Development in Education: From Coloniality to Rethinking, Reframing and Reimagining Possibilities with my chapter: 'Why is Epistemic Humility Provocative? A reflexive story'.
Open access!
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-o...
Delighted to get my copy of Transforming Development in Education: From Coloniality to Rethinking, Reframing and Reimagining Possibilities with my chapter: 'Why is Epistemic Humility Provocative? A reflexive story'.
Open access!
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-o...
Get out and vote, Canada.
It's a big one.
It's a big one.
April 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Get out and vote, Canada.
It's a big one.
It's a big one.
Lovely parting gift from my students! Pleased to receive the Graduate Excellence in Teaching Award for, 'Examining Culture and Difference', the last course I taught at Western.
April 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Lovely parting gift from my students! Pleased to receive the Graduate Excellence in Teaching Award for, 'Examining Culture and Difference', the last course I taught at Western.
Thanks for having me speak at Unions NSW Women's Conference @unionsnsw.bsky.social on US Administration policies on aid and potential effects on the education sector and women's labour in the Indo-Pacific and globally.
It was a warm welcome at my first conference here.
#IWD #EduSky #PoliSky
It was a warm welcome at my first conference here.
#IWD #EduSky #PoliSky
March 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Thanks for having me speak at Unions NSW Women's Conference @unionsnsw.bsky.social on US Administration policies on aid and potential effects on the education sector and women's labour in the Indo-Pacific and globally.
It was a warm welcome at my first conference here.
#IWD #EduSky #PoliSky
It was a warm welcome at my first conference here.
#IWD #EduSky #PoliSky
Overall, the networks of private foundations, co-funders, and implementers were incohesive, with scattered communities and relatively weaker ties.
We found the most influential actors on girls’ and women’s education financing activities were international private foundations, notably US actors.
We found the most influential actors on girls’ and women’s education financing activities were international private foundations, notably US actors.
March 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Overall, the networks of private foundations, co-funders, and implementers were incohesive, with scattered communities and relatively weaker ties.
We found the most influential actors on girls’ and women’s education financing activities were international private foundations, notably US actors.
We found the most influential actors on girls’ and women’s education financing activities were international private foundations, notably US actors.
Of the funders with the most influence (using betweenness centrality), four were private foundations (i.e., Ford Foundation, EdelGive Foundation, Citi Foundation, and the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation).
March 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Of the funders with the most influence (using betweenness centrality), four were private foundations (i.e., Ford Foundation, EdelGive Foundation, Citi Foundation, and the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation).