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Biography
Kalyan joined the University of Nottingham as a Senior Research Fellow (Assistant Professor) at the Observatory for Mathematical Education in 2025. He is also a visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath. Before joining Nottingham, he worked as a Research Fellow at the Westminster Business School, London for two years and at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London as a Research Assistant. Kalyan received his training in applied econometrics and psychometrics as part of his postgraduate and doctoral studies, funded by ESRC, at the Universities of Bath and Bristol. He has a PhD and MRes degrees in Advanced Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences. Prior to this, he received an MA in Sociology from South Asian University, New Delhi, India
Expertise Summary
On an everyday basis, Kalyan employs empirical strategies (mainly involving econometric, machine learning and psychometric tools) on a variety of datasets to examine diverse issues, broadly in the domain of education, labour, and policy. He has interdisciplinary research experience through involvement in a range of externally funded (by the Royal Society, DfE, ESRC, HMRC, EEF, MoJ, SMC) projects and has published policy reports, book chapters and articles in various leading peer-reviewed journals. He had organised workshops and taught modules on statistics/econometrics, causal inference, modelling techniques and policy evaluation. Outside this domain of work, occasionally he loses track in pursuit of quirky stories that are data-driven and have a sufficient scope for drama. He also rarely likes to dabble in matters of the history of statistics.
Recent Publications
ALEX ARMAND, BRITTA AUGSBURG, ANTONELLA BANCALARI and KALYAN KUMAR KAMESHWARA, 2024. Religious proximity and misinformation: Experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India Journal of Health Economics. 96(3), 102883 KALYAN KUMAR KAMESHWARA, ROBIN SHIELDS and ANDRES SANDOVAL-HERNANDEZ, 2023. Decentralisation in School Management and Student Achievement: Evidence from India The Journal of Development Studies. 60(1), 67–82 ROBIN SHIELDS, SWATI BANERJEE, P.K. SHAJAHAN, GANESH BAHADUR SINGH, MIN BAHADUR BISTA, GAYATHRI KRISHNA, MOHAN PAUDEL, ASHIK SINGH, ANDRES SANDOVAL HERNANDEZ, STEPHEN CARNEY, KALYAN KUMAR KAMESHWARA and KANIKA RAI DHANDA, 2021. The double pendulum: Accountability relationships and learning in urban South Asia International Journal of Educational Development. 84(3), 102438