Aditi Surie

Lead – Research

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Aditi Surie teaches and researches digital labour platforms, worker well-being, and livelihoods in India. At IIHS, she leads the academic and policy research portfolio on technology and society. Aditi has conducted extensive sectoral studies of working men and women from 2015 onwards, across location-based work and online labour platforms, which describe working conditions, experience of platform design, and the nature of risk on platforms. She has co-edited Platformization and Informality, published by Palgrave Macmillan (2023), which brings Southern scholars into a dialogue on Global South-specific frameworks to understand quality and regulation of platform work.


Education
2009
BA, Sociology, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, Delhi NCR, India
2011
MA, Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi NCR, India
Ongoing
PhD, Urban Studies, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Geography of Work
Country
India
State
Karnataka, delhi-ncr, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal
City
delhi-ncr, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata
Languages
English, Hindi, French

TEACHING AT IIHS

Ongoing, Urban Economy, Faculty member, Sociology, Urban Fellows Programme (UFP)
Ongoing, Digital Labour Markets and the Future of Work in Indian Cities / Digital Economy and the Future of Work, Faculty member, Sociology, Urban Fellows Programme (UFP)

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THEMATIC AREAS

Economic Development, Governance, ICT, Social Identity, Social Protection, Urban Inequality, Work