Associate Professor Prachi Srivastava

Associate Professor Prachi Srivastava

Associate Professor

School of Education

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

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.

  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2025 Srivastava, P., Srivastava, P., & Khunger, N. (2025). Repigmentation of Vitiligo Universalis after Starting Antitubercular Therapy. INDIAN DERMATOLOGY ONLINE JOURNAL, 16(1), 174-175.
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    2025 Maheshwari, H., Garg, P., & Srivastava, P. (2025). In silico analysis predicts mutational consequences of CITED2, NUDT4, and Ar18B in patients with bipolar disorder. BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH, 476, 11 pages.
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    2024 Srivastava, P., Srivastava, P., & Khunger, N. (2024). Angiokeratomas on male genital lichen sclerosus: Are they related?. INDIAN JOURNAL OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES AND AIDS, 45(2), 165-166.
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    2024 Sabbarwal, S., Majumdar, S., Verma, V. K., Srivastava, P., Nawaz, A., Singh, V., . . . Kumar, M. (2024). Room-Temperature-Stabilized Alpha Tin Nanocrystals for In Vivo Toxicology Evaluation and Photothermal Therapy Corroborated by FFT Modeling. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 17(1), 140-156.
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    2024 Srivastava, P., Srivastava, P., & Khunger, N. (2024). Intra-meatal urethral warts: Clinical and dermatoscopic perspectives. INDIAN JOURNAL OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES AND AIDS, 45(1), 85-86.
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    2024 Shukla, N., Srivastava, N., Srivastava, P., & Narayan, J. (2024). Setu: a pipeline for the robust assembly of SARS-CoV-2 genomes. MICROBIOLOGY RESOURCE ANNOUNCEMENTS, 13(7), 3 pages.
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    2024 Garg, P., Jamal, F., & Srivastava, P. (2024). RNA-Seq data analysis reveals novel nonsense mutations in the NPR3 gene leading to the progression of intellectual disability disorder. HELIYON, 10(9), 11 pages.
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    2024 Srivastava, P., Sabbarwal, S., Verma, V. K., & Kumar, M. (2024). A novel approach for determination of nucleation rates and interfacial energy of metallic magnesium nanoclusters at high temperature using non-isothermal TGA models. CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE, 293, 5 pages.
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    2024 Mishra, S., Garg, P., Srivastava, S., & Srivastava, P. (2024). Br- nanoconjugate enhances the antibacterial efficacy of nimboloide against Flavobacterium columnare infection in Labeo rohita: A nanoinformatics approach. MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, 189, 7 pages.
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    2024 Maheshwari, H., Pathak, M., Garg, P., & Srivastava, P. (2024). Computational analysis reveals the therapeutic potential of Asiatic acid against the miRNA correlated differentially expressed genes of bipolar disorder. AIMS MOLECULAR SCIENCE, 11(2), 99-115.
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    2024 Srivastava, P., & Srivastava, P. (2024). Biett's Collarette in Secondary Syphilis. JOURNAL OF CUTANEOUS MEDICINE AND SURGERY, 28(2), 205.
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    2024 Garg, P., Jamal, F., & Srivastava, P. (2024). Comparative Transcriptomics Data Profiling Reveals E2F Targets as an Important Biological Pathway Overexpressed in Intellectual Disability Disorder. BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOLOGY INSIGHTS, 18, 8 pages.
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    2024 Srivastava, P., & Srivastava, P. (2024). Dermatoscopy of Angioma Serpiginosum. JOURNAL OF CUTANEOUS MEDICINE AND SURGERY, 28(2), 206.
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    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), 38 pages.
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    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.
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    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), 7 pages.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    2016 Srivastava, P. (2016). Philanthropic Engagement in Education: Localised Expressions of Global Flows in India. Contemporary Education Dialogue, 13(1), 5-32.
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    2016 Srivastava, P., & Walford, G. (2016). Non-state actors in education in the Global South. Oxford Review of Education, 42(5), 491-494.
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    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.
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    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.
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    2014 Srivastava, P. (2014). Under-financing education and the rise of the private sector: the case of India. Revue internationale d'éducation de Sèvres.
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    2010 Srivastava, P. (2010). Privatization and education for all: Unravelling the mobilizing frames. Development, 53(4), 522-528.
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    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.
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    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.
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    2009 Srivastava, P., & Hopwood, N. (2009). A Practical Iterative Framework for Qualitative Data Analysis. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 8(1), 76-84.
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    2008 Welmond, M. (2008). Book Review<i>Private Schooling in Less Economically Developed Countries: Asian and African Perspectives</i> edited by Prachi  Srivastava and Geoffrey  Walford. Didcot, UK: Symposium Books, 2007. 214 pp. $48.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐873927‐85‐4.. Comparative Education Review, 52(2), 281-283.
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    2008 Saha, L. J. (2008). Private schooling in less economically developed countries: Asian and African perspectives. INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGY, 23(5), 752-756.
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    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.
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    2007 Mason, R. (2007). Private Schooling in Less Economically Developed Countries: Asian and African Perspectives. HIGHER EDUCATION QUARTERLY, 61(4), 597-598.
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    2006 Srivastava, P. (2006). Reconciling Multiple Researcher Positionalities and Languages in International Research. RESEARCH IN COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, 1(3), 210-222.
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    2006 Srivastava, P. (2006). Private schooling and mental models about girls' schooling in India. Compare, 36(4), 497-514.
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    - Srivastava, P., Dev, P. P., Srivastava, P., & Khunger, N. (n.d.). Leprosy in Robben Island: Historical and medical insights and a comparative study with India. INDIAN JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY VENEREOLOGY & LEPROLOGY, 90(4), 554-556.
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  • Books
    Year Citation
    2013 SRIVASTAVA, P. (Ed.) (2013). Low-fee Private Schooling: aggravating equity or mitigating disadvantage?. Symposium Books.
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    2007 SRIVASTAVA, P., & WALFORD, G. (Eds.) (2007). Private Schooling in Less Economically Developed Countries: Asian and African perspectives. Symposium Books.
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    - Verma, G. K., Bagley, C., & Jha, M. (Eds.) (n.d.). International Perspectives on Educational Diversity and Inclusion. Routledge.
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  • Book Chapters
    Year Citation
    2020 Srivastava, P., & Read, R. (2020). New Education Finance. In Global Education Systems (pp. 1-25). Springer Singapore.
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    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.
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    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).
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    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.
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    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.
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    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).
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  • Report for External Bodies
    Year Citation
    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.
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  • Preprint
    Year Citation
    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.
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  • Position: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 83135092
  • Email: prachi.srivastava@adelaide.edu.au
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: 10 Pulteney Street - Nexus 10 Tower, floor Eighth Floor
  • Room: 826
  • Org Unit: School of Education
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