My Background

Shivangi Deshwal is a researcher and a feminist social worker trained at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Her main research interests are addressing barriers to help-seeking behavior for survivors of domestic violence from South Asia. She hopes to find culturally relevant interventions for domestic violence globally. She wishes to understand the intersectionality of caste and class as a factor in help-seeking behavior for survivors of domestic violence from South Asia.

Her recent publications include a co-authored article entitled ‘Exploring the Formation of Jat masculinity in Contemporary Punjabi music (2022), published in the Economic and Political Weekly, and another co-authored article, ‘Changing the way nonprofits prepare: Lessons learned from early resettlement of Rohingya unaccompanied refugee minors (2023),’ in the Journal of Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership, & Governance.  She is also a co-author of a study, Professional Social Work response to COVID-19 affected families in India – facilitating services and building awareness during the second wave (2022) published by the National Association of Professional Social Workers in India (NAPSWI), New Delhi. She is on the board of Baltimore National Organization for Women, USA. 

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