Dr Prachi Srivastava
Associate Professor
School of Education
College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Prof. Prachi Srivastava is Associate Professor specialising in education and global development. She is also Member of the World Bank Expert Advisory Council on Citizen Engagement. Previously, she served with the United Nations Mission in Kosovo and the International Rescue Committee. She holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford.
Her long-term research interests are in the following areas: privatisation and private sector engagement in education; global education policy and the right to education; education disruption and recovery (long-term pandemic effects; conflict-affected contexts). Her work has been on low-/middle-income countries with a regional focus on South Asia and global applications to G20 contexts.
Prof. Srivastava is recognised for coining the term, ‘low-fee private schooling’, and was one of the first researchers of the field. She has provided research evidence in Westminster Palace to the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Education for All, DFID, European Commission, Global Affairs Canada, JICA, the United Nations Inter-Parliamentary Union, UNESCO, and the World Bank, and has been commissioned by DFID, the European Commission, and UNESCO. She is a signatory to the Abidjan Principles on the human rights obligations of States to provide public education and to regulate private involvement in education.
Prof. Srivastava led high-level policy briefs on education policy and planning and equity implications for recovery for the 2020, 2021, and 2022 G20 Summit processes. In Canada, she was an invited expert on education policy for the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Dr. Srivastava provided expertise for institutions including the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), UNICEF Office of Global Insight and Policy, UNESCO, the BE2 education donor working group, and global CSOs and NGOs on these issues.
Her projects have been granted ~$1 million in funding. She has given more than 200 media interviews in national and international media outlets on global education and political issues, including: The Economist, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Maclean's, Devex, Vrij Nederland, L’actualité, CBC Radio-Canada.
She has held visiting appointments at Columbia University, McGill University, National University of Singapore, and the University of Oxford.
| Year | Citation |
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| 2025 | Srivastava, P. (2025). Reimagining Our Futures: Education and the Promise of Possibility. Comparative Education Studies, 2(1), 86-91. |
| 2024 | Srivastava, P., Matovich, I., Shields, R., & Jadhav, Y. (2024). Girls' and Women's Education in Asia: Exploring Philanthropic Networks. COMPARATIVE EDUCATION REVIEW, 68(4), 704-741. WoS1 |
| 2023 | Matovich, I., & Srivastava, P. (2023). The G20 and the Think 20 as new global education policy actors? Discursive analysis of roles and policy ideas. Journal of International Cooperation in Education, 25(1), 4-20. |
| 2023 | Srivastava, P., Lau, N. T. T., Ansari, D., & Thampi, N. (2023). Effects of school-level and area-level socio-economic factors on elementary school student COVID-19 infections: a population-based observational study. BMJ Open, 13(3), e065596. Europe PMC1 |
| 2021 | Cohen, E., Willemsen, L. W., Shah, R., Vavrus, F., Nkhoma, N. M., Anderson, S., & Srivastava, P. (2021). Deconstructing and reconstructing comparative and international education in light of the COVID-19 emergency: Imagining the field anew. Comparative Education Review, 65(2), 356-374. Scopus17 WoS11 |
| 2019 | Lafleur, M., & Srivastava, P. (2019). Children’s accounts of labelling and stigmatization in private schools in Delhi, India and the right to education act. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 27, 30 pages. Scopus4 WoS2 |
| 2018 | Srivastava, P., & Hopwood, N. (2018). Reflection/Commentary on a Past Article: “A Practical Iterative Framework for Qualitative Data Analysis”: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/160940690900800107. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 17(1), 3 pages. Scopus7 WoS9 |
| 2016 | Srivastava, P., & Noronha, C. (2016). The myth of free and barrier-free access: India’s Right to Education Act—private schooling costs and household experiences. Oxford Review of Education, 42(5), 561-578. Scopus28 WoS23 |
| 2016 | Srivastava, P. (2016). Philanthropic Engagement in Education: Localised Expressions of Global Flows in India. Contemporary Education Dialogue, 13(1), 5-32. Scopus10 |
| 2016 | Srivastava, P., & Walford, G. (2016). Non-state actors in education in the Global South. Oxford Review of Education, 42(5), 491-494. Scopus14 WoS11 |
| 2014 | Srivastava, P. (2014). Sous-financement de l’éducation et émergence du secteur privé : le cas de l’Inde. Revue internationale d'éducation de Sèvres, HS - 2. |
| 2014 | Srivastava, P., & Noronha, C. (2014). Institutional framing of the right to education act: Contestation, controversy and concessions. Economic and Political Weekly, (18), 51-58. Scopus23 |
| 2014 | Srivastava, P. (2014). Under-financing education and the rise of the private sector: the case of India. Revue internationale d'éducation de Sèvres, HS - 2. |
| 2010 | Srivastava, P. (2010). Privatization and education for all: Unravelling the mobilizing frames. Development, 53(4), 522-528. Scopus22 |
| 2010 | Srivastava, P. (2010). Public-private partnerships or privatisation? Questioning the state's role in education in India. DEVELOPMENT IN PRACTICE, 20(4-5), 540-553. WoS24 |
| 2010 | Srivastava, P., & Oh, S. A. (2010). Private foundations, philanthropy, and partnership in education and development: Mapping the terrain. International Journal of Educational Development, 30(5), 460-471. Scopus64 WoS44 |
| 2009 | Srivastava, P., & Hopwood, N. (2009). A Practical Iterative Framework for Qualitative Data Analysis. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 8(1), 76-84. Scopus869 |
| 2008 | Welmond, M. (2008). Private schooling in less economically developed countries: Asian and African perspectives. COMPARATIVE EDUCATION REVIEW, 52(2), 281-283. |
| 2008 | Saha, L. J. (2008). Private schooling in less economically developed countries: Asian and African perspectives. INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGY, 23(5), 752-756. |
| 2008 | Srivastava, P. (2008). The shadow institutional framework: Towards a new institutional understanding of an emerging private school sector in india. Research Papers in Education, 23(4), 451-475. Scopus36 WoS24 |
| 2007 | Mason, R. (2007). Private Schooling in Less Economically Developed Countries: Asian and African Perspectives. HIGHER EDUCATION QUARTERLY, 61(4), 597-598. |
| 2006 | Srivastava, P. (2006). Reconciling Multiple Researcher Positionalities and Languages in International Research. RESEARCH IN COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, 1(3), 210-222. WoS38 |
| 2006 | Srivastava, P. (2006). Private schooling and mental models about girls' schooling in India. Compare, 36(4), 497-514. Scopus55 |
| Year | Citation |
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| 2013 | SRIVASTAVA, P. (Ed.) (2013). Low-fee Private Schooling: aggravating equity or mitigating disadvantage?. Symposium Books. DOI |
| 2007 | SRIVASTAVA, P., & WALFORD, G. (Eds.) (2007). Private Schooling in Less Economically Developed Countries: Asian and African perspectives. Symposium Books. DOI |
| - | Verma, G. K., Bagley, C., & Jha, M. (Eds.) (2007). International Perspectives on Educational Diversity and Inclusion. Routledge. DOI |
| Year | Citation |
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| 2025 | Srivastava, P. (2025). Why Is Epistemic Humility Provocative? A Reflexive Story. In M. V. Faul (Ed.), Transforming Development in Education (pp. 157-174). Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI Scopus1 |
| 2021 | Srivastava, P., & Read, R. (2021). New Education Finance. In Global Education Systems (pp. 1059-1083). Springer Singapore. DOI |
| 2020 | Srivastava, P., & Read, R. (2020). New Education Finance. In Global Education Systems (pp. 1-25). Springer Singapore. DOI |
| 2019 | Srivastava, P., & Read, R. (2019). Philanthropic and impact investors: private sector engagement, hybridity and the problem of definition. In Philanthropy in Education Diverse Perspectives and Global Trends (pp. 15-36). Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI Scopus5 |
| 2016 | Srivastava, P. (2016). Questioning the global scaling up of low-fee private schooling: The Nexus between business, philanthropy, and PPPs. In World Yearbook of Education 2016 the Global Education Industry (pp. 248-263). Scopus44 |
| 2012 | Srivastava, P., & Oh, S. A. (2012). Private foundations, philanthropy and partnership in education and development: Mapping the terrain. In Public Private Partnerships in Education New Actors and Modes of Governance in A Globalizing World (pp. 128-157). Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI Scopus1 |
| 2008 | Srivastava, P. (2008). From schools to secretariats: Crossing organisational boundaries in fieldwork in Uttar Pradesh. In Anthropologists Inside Organisations South Asian Case Studies (pp. 109-131). SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd. DOI Scopus2 |
| 2007 | Srivastava, P. (2007). Low-fee private schooling: Challenging an era of education for all and quality provision?. In International Perspectives on Educational Diversity and Inclusion Studies from America Europe and India (pp. 138-161). DOI Scopus9 |
| 2007 | Ehrenhalt, L., & Srivastava, P. (2007). JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS. In Girl Culture an Encyclopedia Volume 1 (Vol. 1, pp. 371-373). |
| Year | Citation |
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| 2021 | Gallagher-Mackay, K., Srivastava, P., Underwood, K., Dhuey, E., McCready, L., Born, K. B., . . . Sander, B. (2021). COVID-19 and Education Disruption in Ontario: Emerging Evidence on Impacts. Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. DOI |
| 2021 | Science, M., Thampi, N., Bitnun, A., Allen, U., Birken, C., Blackman, N., . . . Barrett, K. (2021). School Operation for the 2021-2022 Academic Year in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. DOI |
| Year | Citation |
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| 2022 | Srivastava, P., Lau, T. T., Ansari, D., & Thampi, N. (2022). Effects of socio-economic factors on elementary school student COVID-19 infections in Ontario, Canada. DOI |
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