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DR INDRANI LAHIRI
A Passion for Social Change
Dr Indrani Lahiri, Senior Lecturer, Leicester Media School, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Media, De Montfort University, Leicester
Indrani Lahiri is a Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication at De Montfort University. She holds an Associate Fellowship with the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London. She is the Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy and an Academic Consultant in public relations. She is interested in developing interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary research projects within the university, nationally and internationally. She is the Communications Director on A Germ's Journey project. Her research focuses on digital media, mental health, society and politics. Recently completed a project on migrant schooling crisis and media in Leicester as Principal Investigator and working on developing a community organisation to work on UNSDGs. Currently, she is working as a Co-Investigator in the ESRC/AHRC/GCRF funded international interdisciplinary research project on Mental Health Literacy in urban and rural communities in India: An interdisciplinary approach using theatre methodology. She works as Expert Communication Advisor on NIHR Advanced Fellowship (NIHR300020); NEON (Nurture Early for Optimal Nutrition); ESRC: COVID-19 impacts on children under 5 in temporary accommodation—co-developing solutions from lockdown to the recovery phase—A mixed-methods study
She is the Founder of Children stories in the times of Corona, a digital platform to bring parents, children and schools together to design resilience pathways; and Manav Utsav (Human Festival), to celebrate the South Asian Heritage month in July 2020. She has recently been awarded on World Happiness day for her work and support towards community resilience through creative arts, media and performances.
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MANAV UTSAV
Community resilience via creative pathways
Manav Utsav (Human Festival) was launched in July 2020 as a response to the pandemic, to celebrate the South Asian Heritage Month in the UK. Our core partners are Celebrate Our Similarities (COS), Sangeet Foundation (SF), South Asian Health Action (SAHA), An Indian Summer, Inspirate, Blue Palette, and Elixir. We are continuously looking for partners in creative arts and media to strengthen the foundation. Please get in touch if you think there is a possibility to support us in this great endeavour.
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CONDENSED CV
Digital Anthropologist
Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication at De Montfort University. She holds an Associate Fellowship with the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is a Senior Fellow of HEA and an Academic Consultant in public relations. She is interested in developing interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary research projects within the university, nationally and internationally. Founder of Manav Utsav digital festival and Children in times of Corona.
Her research focuses on digital media, mental health, society, and politics. She is an interdisciplinary researcher in Digital Media and Society.
Twitter: @indranilahiri
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Lahiri, I. (2020) Community resilience and action research. Journal of Mental Health Education.
https://dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/19729
Lahiri, I. (2020) Community resilience in times of the pandemic. ELIXIR, May 2020.
https://dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/19699
Lahiri, I., Banerjee, D., Meena, K.S., Alsulaimi, M. (2020) Digital media, society and COVID-19 in UK and India: discourses and recommendations (Chapter 3). In: Pollock, J.C. and Vakoch, D.A. (Eds.) Coronavirus in International Media, Lanham, US: Rowman Littlefield. (submitted, will be published early 2021)
https://dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/19732
Lahiri, I. (2018) Constructive alignment and multimodal approaches – Innovative media pedagogies in public relations. International Journal of Development Research, 8, (06), 13178
http://hdl.handle.net/2086/17288
Lahiri, I. (2019) Case Study: Creating Public Relations Campaigns for Social Change Using the SDGs (Dr Indrani Lahiri) - Education for the Sustainable Development Goals at DMU. [online] Available at https://esdg.our.dmu.ac.uk/2019/05/17/case-study-creating-public-relations-campaigns-for-social-change-using-the-sdgs-dr-indrani-lahiri/ [Accessed 2 Jun. 2020].
https://dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/19719
Digital Publications
Lahiri, Indrani (2020): Resilience in COVID-19 times. De Montfort University. Media. https://doi.org/10.21253/DMU.12376904
Lahiri, Indrani (2020): Children stories in times of Corona. De Montfort University. Media. https://doi.org/10.21253/DMU.12252836
Lahiri, I. (2020): Thank you Superheroes digital gratitude. De Montfort University. Media. https://doi.org/10.21253/DMU.12377378
Lahiri, I. (2020): Global art contest. De Montfort University. Media. https://doi.org/10.21253/DMU.12377627
Lahiri, Indrani (2020): Children stories in times of Corona VOLUME II. De Montfort University. Media. https://doi.org/10.21253/DMU.12377246
Lahiri, I. (2020) Children stories in times of Corona. Podcast. https://dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/19715
Lahiri, Indrani (2020): Global art contest volume IV. De Montfort University. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.21253/DMU.12412010
Lahiri, Indrani (2020): Logo Manav Utsav. De Montfort University. Figure. https://doi.org/10.21253/DMU.12400628
Lahiri, Indrani (2020): Mental Health and children. De Montfort University. Media. https://doi.org/10.21253/DMU.12377162
Lahiri, Indrani (2020): Retired Head Teacher on resilience building. De Montfort University. Media. https://doi.org/10.21253/DMU.12377120
Radio Interview and Podcasts
Lahiri, Indrani (2020): Mutual Aid, Radio interview. De Montfort University. Media. https://doi.org/10.21253/DMU.12252869
Lahiri, Indrani (2019): Cultural PR and smear. Radio Interview. BBC Leicester. #don’tfearsmear
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p071z78s [March 22, 2019] https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2344990322178134&set=pb.100000015670886.-2207520000..&type=3&theater
[Accessed June 15, 2020]
Lahiri, Indrani (2020): Podcast. De Montfort University. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.21253/DMU.12400661
Continued Impact from research
2019
Lahiri, Indrani (2020): Climate change Royal Society of Arts, Celebrate Our Similarities and MCRC collaborative research event. De Montfort University. Media. https://doi.org/10.21253/DMU.12412601
Media 2020
Conference and Research events
Lahiri, I. (2020) Emotional literacy is central to emotional resilience: Lessons learnt. Third International Conference on Children’s Health, Well-being, Education and Rights, Kosovo, June 1, 2020. https://dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/19745
Lahiri, Indrani (2020): MEHCON2019, Bangalore, India. De Montfort University. Conference contribution. https://doi.org/10.21253/DMU.12444041.v1
Lahiri, Indrani (2020): New Media and Contemporary society Invited talk 2019. De Montfort University. Conference contribution. https://doi.org/10.21253/DMU.12444071
Lahiri, Indrani (2020): Mass Media in the digital era Keynote Rabindra Bharati University. De Montfort University. Conference contribution. https://dmu.figshare.com/articles/_/12444056
Lahiri, Indrani (2020): MEHCON2019, Bangalore, India. De Montfort University. Conference contribution. https://doi.org/10.21253/DMU.12444041
Lahiri, Indrani (2020): Sustainable development and communication Keynote. De Montfort University. Conference contribution. https://doi.org/10.21253/DMU.12444023
Lahiri, Indrani (2020): Keynote Probing the Role and Impact of Social Media on Major Aspects of Contemporary Life. De Montfort University. Conference contribution. https://doi.org/10.21253/DMU.12444002
Lahiri, Indrani (2020): Communicating peace in the public sphere: remodelling coffee house with Royal Society of Arts and Celebrate Our Similarities. De Montfort University. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.21253/DMU.12443918
Lahiri, Indrani (2020): Heath Fair COS and MCRC collaboration. De Montfort University. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.21253/DMU.12443600
Lahiri, Indrani (2020): The Vintage cafe, COS and MCRC. De Montfort University. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.21253/DMU.12423836
Lahiri, Indrani (2020): Neoliberalism and austerity. De Montfort University. Conference contribution. https://doi.org/10.21253/DMU.12412667
Lahiri, I., Sedgwick, C. (2019) The migrant children school crisis: examining the intersection between media framing, neoliberalism and schooling in Leicester. Three-D Issue 32: Discourses Of Immigration And Citizenship: From Windrush To Brexit Conference, Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, June 2019. https://dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/19752
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MY SPECIALIZATIONS
Digital media and society
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COMMUNITY RESILIENCE
"Resilience is the ability of a system (like a community) to absorb disturbance and still retain basic function and structure. Building resilience means intentionally guiding the system’s process of adaptation in an attempt to preserve some qualities and allow others to fade away, all while retaining the essence—or “identity”—of the system. In a human community, identity is essentially determined by what people value about where they live. However, what a community of people collectively values is open to interpretation and subject to disagreement. This suggests that people—and the ways they come to a rough consensus—are necessarily at the centre of community resilience building." (https://www.resilience.org/six-foundations-for-community-resilience/)
ACTION RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
Participatory Collaborative Visual And Digital Research In Action to help build community resilience
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CHILDREN STORIES IN TIMES OF CORONA
Action Research and Innovation
Children in times of Corona is the digital space where I have worked with the local and national community to provide a platform for children and parents to co-work and strengthen bonding during the lockdown. It is an intercultural space, where we want to. create and coproduce content.
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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Research led teaching events https://dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/19717
Embedding education for sustainable development https://esdg.our.dmu.ac.uk/2019/05/17/case-study-creating-public-relations-campaigns-for-social-change-using-the-sdgs-dr-indrani-lahiri/
Invited Keynote https://figshare.dmu.ac.uk/articles/conference_contribution/Sustainable_development_and_communication_Keynote/12444023
Embedding UDL http://celt.our.dmu.ac.uk/2017/03/15/public-relations-action/
Co-Investigator on ESRC/AHRC/GCRF funded international interdisciplinary research project on Mental Health Literacy in India.
Invited Keynote https://doi.org/10.21253/DMU.12444041.v1
Mental Health Warrior project https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=607052806559662
Creating digital content for research and engagement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnvzM05dPN8
Trained Research Associate on MeHeLP https://www.instagram.com/mehelpindia/?hl=en
Manav Utsav 2020 Community resilience https://doi.org/10.21253/DMU.12374720
Successful supervision leading to completion of a PhD in 2021.
Manav Utsav 2021 and acquisition of new partners contributing in kind to the festival.
Launch of the Media and Mental Health certificate course with NIMHANS.
DMU Doctoral Scholarship Award 2021 on iMuseum.
Leading a team of researchers in HLS on health communications.
Leading the Germ’s Journey project as a Communications Director.
Leading the MeHeLP team on effective communication and mental health literacy on digital media.
Advising the CAMPIONS project team on digital anthropology and coaching PhD students from UCL on the project.
Invitation to join the team of researchers, on the Talent 25 project at DMU.
Developed Sangeet Foundation, registered as Sangeet Global Ltd. - Company No. 12966630), as a non-profit organisation and trained the Co-founder on digital platforms to build community resilience. In the last year alone, the foundation had more than 80 events engaging the digital community. The Co-Founder has now registered as a PhD student to examine the volume of work and create a framework that we aim to take to the UK Parliament.
Developed Celebrate our Similarities (COS) and registered as a CIC (Company number 13595234)
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