Sidharth Rath

History

Education, internships, and campus experiments from before the current professional work. Current and recent roles are on Work.

Education

  1. 2019–2020

    Postgraduate diploma, FLAME University

    Postgraduate Diploma in Interdisciplinary Studies and Research, Pune.

  2. 2016–2019

    Bachelor of Arts, FLAME University

    Liberal Arts with a Public Policy major, Pune.

Earlier

  1. 2020

    Dictocracy

    Team lead at the MIT India Initiative workshop for Dictocracy, a web-based interactive-fiction game on how authoritarian influence can shape electoral narratives.

  2. 2019–2020

    Student Manager, WageIndicator Foundation

    An internship as student manager on WageIndicator’s Global NewsDesk, co-managing a distributed team of student interns on content and web operations for the foundation’s country websites on labour law and living wages.

  3. 2018–2020

    CESS Nuffield–FLAME University

    An internship in international research outreach at the Centre for Experimental Social Sciences, a collaboration between Nuffield College, Oxford, and FLAME University in Pune. I supported the lab’s communication work and assisted with experimental social-science research design and implementation.

  4. 2019

    Cyclone Fani reporting

    Reporting intern on a post-Cyclone Fani documentation project in Odisha, commissioned for UNICEF. The assignment covered field reporting, story filing, and editing in affected villages.

  5. 2018

    Project Sammaan, J-PAL South Asia

    An internship with J-PAL South Asia on Project Sammaan, an urban sanitation programme in Bhubaneswar, working with communities on operations, leadership, and design.

  6. 2017–2018

    Bandhavgarh field research

    Undergraduate field research around Bandhavgarh National Park, Madhya Pradesh, on village perspectives and human–wildlife conflict, through FLAME University’s Discover India Programme. The project was awarded a research grant.

  7. 2017

    Project MIAMI

    A Facebook Messenger chatbot built during undergraduate years at FLAME University (Making Information Accessible and More Interactive), for use on campus. It answered recurring questions — dining menus, shuttle timings, contacts — that were otherwise spread across notices and offices.

  8. 2012–2015

    Independent publishing

    Early public writing, video, and newsletters — a first period of producing and circulating information independently.