As part of IER’s ESRC-funded Impact Accelerator NGO data fund, Puja Marwaha, CEO of Child’s Rights and You (CRY), India, will be talking about ‘Malnutrition: the Grave Reality in India that Can be Changed’ at a workshop on 7th March, 11am to 3pm. The event will be held in room B0.41 Social Sciences building, University of Warwick. A sandwich lunch will be provided.

The workshop aims to bring together people from academia and outside of academia working in the development sector towards improving the lives of children. It will engage in discussions focusing on issues such as malnutrition among children in India, childhood poverty, child labour, child marriage, education, and children’s rights.

For further details please contact Sudipa Sarkar (S.Sarakar.2@warwick.ac.uk) and for registration Lynne Marston (L.Marston@warwick.ac.uk) by 4th of March.

Sudipa Sarkar has a new ESRC-funded Impact Accelerator Award to work on NGO held data. She will be working with the NGO, Child Rights and You (CRY) to build a collaboration that will focus on the issue of child labour in India through better usage and analysis of NGO held data.

A workshop is scheduled on 6th February 2019 at IER discussing the issue where both academic and non-academic researchers will be present.