Akansha T

Teaching applied psychology and public policy; designing the Research Methodology curriculum for the M.A. Psychology programme, covering research design, sampling, survey construction, and quantitative and qualitative analysis.

Advanced coursework in true crime, interdisciplinary cultural analysis, and psychoanalysis, applying frameworks for reading audience attachment, motivation, and identification to consumer decision-making research.

Designed and moderated 10+ in-depth interviews and 30+ focus groups across ten Indian markets, authoring discussion guides and screeners. Served as day-to-day client point of contact for Amazon Prime Video and contributed to insights pitches and proposals across OTT, television, and film categories.

Owned end-to-end delivery of research-led education programs with minimal oversight, including planning calendars, milestone tracking, funder reporting, and on-time execution across multiple partner institutions. Built monitoring and reporting mechanisms and managed a stakeholder base spanning funder, institutional leadership, government partners, and faculty.

Designed and taught Social Science Research Methods and Women & Gender Studies; trained students in survey design, qualitative analysis, and evidence-based writing.

Built and taught curriculum in media, gender, and anthropology; supervised 15+ student research projects end to end.

Delivered tutorials and designed assessments for 200+ B.Tech/M.Tech students, embedding social-theory insight into technology design projects.

Assessed India's gender-based violence legislation to inform an AI-driven safety product; ran five digital-safety workshops across two Mumbai universities.

Mapped adversarial prompts and culturally sensitive content to strengthen GenAI safety evaluation across South Asian languages and contexts.

Designed multilingual prompt red-teaming sessions addressing gendered misinformation and online harms.

Ongoing certification in Psychoanalysis, Colonial and Decolonial.

Completed certification in Investigating True Crime: Allure, Ethics and Authenticity.

Selected as Writing Urban India Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research.

Qualified UGC-NET in Women's Studies.

B.A. (Hons.) in Applied Psychology from the University of Delhi.

Completed certification in Quantitative Analysis & Data Visualization.

M.Phil. in Sociology with a thesis on queer politics in post-decriminalization Mumbai, using ethnographic fieldwork as core method.

M.A. in Gender Studies, graduated in top 10% of the class, with focus on critical theory and qualitative research methods.