Dr Sruthi Herbert
Digital Research Postdoctoral Fellow, November 2023 - August 2024
Home Institution: University of Edinburgh
Dr Sruthi Herbert is a Digital Research Postdoctoral Fellow. She is also affiliated with theproject ‘Reversing the Gaze’ at the Edinburgh Law School where she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. During this time, she studied the mutual interaction and constitution of the fiscal and the administrative state in India. She has a PhD in Development Studies from SOAS University of London that focused on people’s interface with India's developmental and administrative state and their differential experience of citizenship based on their social identities.
Project Title: Digitisation of Welfare and Implications for the Welfare State: An Examination through Social Welfare Funds in India
What does the digitisation of welfare mean for the welfare state? This is the central question I aim to address through the Digital Research Postdoctoral Fellowship at IASH. Through theongoing digitisation of welfare distribution through the Building and Other Construction Workers’ (BOCW) Welfare Boards in India, I try to explain how the practices of digital welfare delivery in India is reconfiguring the Indian welfare state.