Dr. Inakoti Veera Prasad

Assistant Professor (Temporary)

PhD in Population Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai.
M.Phil in Population Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai.
Masters in Population Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai.
Bachelors in Social Sciences, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
Student Exchange with University of Gävle, Sweden.
UGC-NET in Population Studies, 2017.

Research Officer in the project titled “Study of Migration in Mumbai from different regions of Maharashtra”, funded by the International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai.
Research Associate in the project titled “Impact of Demand Side Financing Instrument on the Continuum Care for Maternal and Child Health in India and Bangladesh”, funded by the Department of Bio-Technology, India, and Medical Research Council (MRC), The United Kingdom.
Research Consultant for the Commission dedicated to the Reservation for Backward class citizens in local bodies of Maharashtra, established by the Honorable Supreme Court of India.
Research Intern at Center for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

Participated in Two-week Capacity Building Program on “Emerging Trends in Theoretical and Computational Social Science Research for Young Social Science Faculties”, organized by Indian Council of Social Science Research, Hyderabad, during 4–15 May 2026.
Participated in “Summer Institute in Computational Social Science – Singapore”, organized by National University of Singapore, during 7–14 July 2025.
Attended “Summer Workshop on Urban Mixed Methods Across the Disciplines” at School of Cities, University of Toronto, Canada, during 27–31 July 2024.
Attended an online course “Qualitative Research Methods” organized by the International Institute of Migration & Development (IIMAD), Kerala, during 6–28 July 2022.
Attended the “6th KOSTAT-UNFPA Summer Workshop on Analysis of Demographic Data with GIS Technology”, co-hosted by Statistics Korea (KOSTAT) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and organized by the Korea Statistics Promotion Institute (KSPI), South Korea, during 29 July–2 August 2019.

Presented a paper titled “The Influence of Household Dynamics on Daily Commuting Choices: An Indian Experience” at the 6th Asian Population Association Conference, Kathmandu, Nepal, during 27–30 November 2024.
Presented the paper titled “Exploring the Relationship Between Migration Status and Commuting to the Workplace: Evidence from NSS Data” at the International Conference on Labour Migration and Sustainable Development in Asia: Opportunities, Challenges, and Way Forward, organized by the South Asia Centre for Labour Mobility and Migrants, Mumbai, during 1–3 June 2023.
The paper titled “Commuting for Work: Gendered Facet and Inequality Dimensions in India” was accepted for the annual conference of the Population Association of America (PAA), Washington DC, USA, during 22–25 April 2020.
Presented the paper titled “Commutation and Gender in Indian Cities” at the International Seminar on “Population, Health and Development: Global and National Policy Perspectives” organized by IIPS in New Delhi, during 15–17 February 2018.
Presented the paper titled “Urban Commuters in India” at the 38th Annual Conference of the Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP) at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, during 20–22 December 2017.

Best Research Paper Award – awarded by South Asia Centre for Labour Mobility and Migrants (SALAM), 2023.
Government of India Fellowship – awarded by International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India, 2019.
Linnaeus-Palme Scholarship – awarded by the Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency, Sweden, 2014.

Prasad, I.V. and Bhagat, R.B. (2026). “Daily Commuting to Workplace in India: Does Gender Has Anything to Say?”. Migration and Development, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 105–119. Sage Publications.
Sharma, S., Sharma, R., Manani, P., Prasad, I.V. (2024). “Infertility among Married Women in Northern India: A Qualitative Study of Coping Strategies and Social Stigmas”. International Journal of Women’s Health and Reproductive Sciences, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 33–41.
Rajan, S.I., Prasad, I.V., and Rinju. (2020). “Migrant and Language”. In S. Irudaya Rajan and M. Sumeetha (Eds.), Handbook of Internal Migration in India, Chapter 45, pp. 622–628. Sage Publications.

STATA, QGIS, R, Python

Sweden, Finland, Canada, South Korea, Nepal, Singapore