Time: Aug 22, 2021 06:30 PM Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi
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A Conversation with Zoroastrian Faculty
On the ZFN UK Humanities and Social Sciences Program
The World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce (WZCC) in partnership with Zarathushti faculty in academia envision empowering Zarathushti students to learn how to create economic, cultural and intellectual value. To attain this vision the WZCC has established the Zoroastrian Faculty Network (ZFN). The ZFN has launched a project to place a ZFN Scholar in the humanities and social sciences with one Zoroastrian faculty member in the UK starting Fall 2022.
We have identified three Zoroastrian faculty members in the UK who are keen mentor his/her Zoroastrian mentee to not only learn how to create economic / social / intellectual value but also to give back to the Zoroastrian community:
Shirin Madon, Associate Professor of Information Systems London School of Economics – Digital Technologies and Development
Dr. Shirin Madon is an Associate Professor working jointly in the Departments of International Development, and Management at the London School of Economics. Throughout her academic career, Shirin has been interrogating the extent to which digital technologies promote equitable socioeconomic development in different sectors such as health, governance, and refugee management. Shirin currently teaches the following postgraduate courses: (i) Management information systems and digital innovation, (ii) ICT and Socioeconomic Development, and (iii) Emergencies Management: Humanitarian Intervention and Digital Innovation. Her main areas of current research are as follows:
- Evaluating the effectiveness of village health governance in rural Karnataka. This is ongoing research over the past 6 years that adopts a participatory action research approach to investigate how community resilience is built for supporting routine primary healthcare and managing pandemics such as COVID-19.
- Studying the Aadhaar platform for improving delivery of social assistance programmes in India. The focus of the research is on the power plays that are involved in integrating the centralised identity platform with local government knowledge of data and work processes.
- Investigating the extent to which the UNHCR’s current strategy of merging its digital identity platform for refugee management with the provision of market services to refugees and the risks and benefits involved.
https://www.lse.ac.uk/management/research/faculty-research-groups/isi
https://www.lse.ac.uk/international-development
https://www.lse.ac.uk/management/people/academic-staff/smadon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_School_of_Economics
Lyla Mehta, Professor, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex – International Development, Sustainability, Social and Gender Justice
Dr. Lyla Mehta is a Professor at the Institute of Development Studies, UK, and a Visiting Professor at Noragric, Norwegian University of Life Sciences. She trained as a sociologist (University of Vienna) and has a Ph.D. in Development Studies (University of Sussex). She uses the case of water and sanitation to focus on the politics of scarcity, gender, human rights and access to resources, resource grabbing, power and policy processes in rural, peri urban and urban contexts. She also focusses on climate change and uncertainty and forced displacement. She has extensive fieldwork experience in South Asia and southern Africa. Professor Mehta has engaged in advisory work with various UN agencies and has also been active in advocacy and activist work on gender, environment and social justice issues with NGOs and social and anti-fascist movements in Europe and India. She has successfully supervised 13 doctoral researchers and convenes the module ‘Ideas in Development’
Dr. Mehta has authored, co-authored or edited eights books including The Politics and Poetics of Water: Naturalising Scarcity in Western India; Displaced by Development: Confronting Marginalisation and Gender Injustice; The Limits to Scarcity: Contesting the Politics of Allocation and The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty (Forthcoming). She lead the project team of the UN High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition’s (HLPE) report on Water for Food Security and Nutrition and is a co-editor of the journal Environment and Planning E, Nature and Space. She is currently leading two projects, namely, Transformations as Praxis in South Asia and Towards Brown Gold?: Reimagining Off-Grid Sanitation in Rapidly Urbanising Areas in Asia and Africa. She tweets at @Lylamehta.
https://www.ids.ac.uk/people/lyla-mehta/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Development_Studies
Zubin Sethna, Professor of Entrepreneurial Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Regents University London – Entrepreneurial Marketing and Consumer Behaviour
Dr. Zubin Sethna is the Professor of Entrepreneurial Marketing and Consumer Behaviour at Regents University, London. In 2020, he was appointed by the World Economic Forum in Davos as an Expert in Entrepreneurship, The Future of Consumption and Family Businesses.
Dr Sethna is the Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship, and regularly reviews for a variety of other marketing and entrepreneurship journals. He is a qualified marketing practitioner as well as an entrepreneur. He has successfully launched six businesses (one of which won a UK National Award) and in his capacity as Managing Consultant at Baresman Consulting he has integrated marketing strategy/communications with management consultancy and training for numerous organisations both in the UK and internationally, and across a variety of industry sectors (Health Care, Professional Services, Music, Travel, Manufacturing, Retail, IT, Education and ‘cottage’ industries).
Dr. Sethna has written two of the UK and Europe’s most popular textbooks (bestsellers!!) in ‘Consumer Behaviour’ (published by SAGE, 2016, 2019) and Entrepreneurial Marketing Global Perspectives (Emerald, 2013). He has conducted research in the UK, Europe, India and China, and has raised external funding of nearly £700k for various academic projects. He is Co-Chair of the Academy of Marketing’s Special Interest Group on ‘Entrepreneurial and Small Business Marketing’ and has been invited to conduct keynote lectures at HE institutions in the UK, EU, China and India. In 2017, he was unanimously elected to become a member of the advisory board of the acclaimed Global Research Conference on Marketing and Entrepreneurship.
https://www.regents.ac.uk/about/our-people/professor-dr-zubin-sethna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regent%27s_University_London
In the webinar on August 22, 2021 Drs. Madon, Mehta and Sethna will provide an opportunity to those who wish to potential ZFN Scholars to come to learn about their backgrounds and aspirations. They will comment on their
- academic journey,
- lessons from their professional journey,
- approach to mentoring and giving back, and
- tips for young Zoroastrians who may wish to work with them.
Participants in the webinar will have an opportunity to engage with the Drs. Madon, Mehta and Sethna after the principals have spoken.