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Dr. Anu Abraham 

Work Experience

Senior Researcher, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway                 Sept 2022–

Senior Researcher, ERC-funded MigrationRhythms Project

  • Lead the quantitative research strand of an international project on migration, coordinating a large-scale survey across four Asian cities.

  • Managed all stages of survey development and implementation: design, translation, digital deployment in CAPI, and quality assurance.

  • Directed training and supervision of multinational field teams and data managers to ensure high-quality data collection.

  • Guided data management and analysis, producing insights to inform academic and policy debates on migration.

  • Organised and contributed to conferences, seminars, and publications to disseminate findings internationally.

  • Currently advancing collaborative research outputs based on survey data.

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Senior Research Fellow,  IIMAD                                                              Sept 2021 – 

  • Deliver lectures on migration, research methods, and related topics; contribute to curriculum development and academic programming.

  • Engage in academic discussions, panels, and knowledge exchange initiatives.

  • Principal Investigator of the project Measuring Food Insecurity among Informally Employed Indian Migrants in the Gulf Region, funded by the Migration and Food Security in the Global South (MiFOOD) programme

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Assistant Professor                                                                                 2016-2022

  • Subjects taught: Research Methods, Research Writing, Public Finance and Policy, Development Economics, Ethics in Economics, Micro Economics,

  • Supervised Master’s and Bachelor’s theses across all positions, mentoring students in research design, methods, and academic writing.

Education

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Ph.D. (Economics)                                                                                        2021

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras, Chennai, India 

Title: Determinants and Impacts of International Migration, Remittances And Return: A Study Of Kerala, India

Supervisor: Dr. Malathy Duraisamy (Retd. Professor, IIT Madras)

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