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Soumitra Thorat

Mr Soumitra Thorat

PhD Student in Public Services Management and Organisation

Research interests

  • Public Services Management & Organisation

Biography

Thesis Title: Interactional practises, liminal spaces and educational programs in India: Exploring the real-time work of classrooms 

Supervisors: Professor Jonathan Hindmarsh, Professor Paul Luff

Date of entry: 2021, Full-Time

Soumitra Thorat is a PhD student with a background in anthropology. His research focuses on the investigation of the dynamic interactional practises that occur in classroom settings to create meaningful collaborative work.

Using video based qualitative research methods, his work focuses on how uses of verbal and nonverbal communicative practises create educational spaces while challenging and negotiating pre-existing power dynamics.

Soumitra has previously worked on projects looking at how the COVID-19 impacted the way we grieve and remember in the digital space and relationship between shared fact-making and democratic politics through extensive ethnographic work.

He is a member of the Public Services Management and Organisation (PSMO) and Work, Interaction and Technology (WIT) Research Groups at Kings Business School. 

Research

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Work, Interaction & Technology Group

Work, Interaction and Technology is a research group, focused on video-based studies of social interaction and which technologies feature in collaboration.

Research

Anatomy Museum - Interior
Work, Interaction & Technology Group

Work, Interaction and Technology is a research group, focused on video-based studies of social interaction and which technologies feature in collaboration.