Arpita Chakraborty
Biographic Data
| ID | 3688094 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arpita Chakraborty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arpita |
| FAMILY NAME | Chakraborty |
| SIGNATURE | CHAKRABORTY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dublin City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1003-4031 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Developing social sustainability reporting framework for manufacturing SMEs using ISM approach: An Indian perspective
Purpose Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) constitute an indispensable component of the global economic system. They account for 90% of all business entities and are acknowledged as essential players in export operations, economic advancement and employment generation within an economy. However, these entities often face existential challenges owing to insufficient social evaluation of both direct and indirect concerns. This study aims to deline…
Race, gender, and the immigrant student: Aspiring decolonisation in Irish universities
The growth in international students in the context of the global ‘internationalisation’ agenda within academia offers significant opportunities for broadening and deepening multicultural exchange, understanding and learning within universities. However, to do so effectively means acknowledging the reality that many universities around the world remain colonial strongholds of white, male, middle-class privilege. Drawing from our respective experi…
Shaping the Future of Environmental Sustainability in SMEs: A Hybrid NGT and Grey AHP Approach
The manufacturing sector is crucial for sustainable development, with Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) constituting 90% of businesses and aiding exports and job creation. This study examines environmental sustainability challenges in manufacturing SMEs and ranks standards and disclosures using Modified Nominal Group Technique (M‐NGT) and Grey Analytic Hierarchy Process (Grey‐AHP). The research produced a materiality matrix for environmental ch…
Public patient forwarding to private pharmacies: An analysis of data linking patients, facilities and pharmacies in the state of Odisha, India
INTRODUCTION: In India, public sector patients purchase drugs from private pharmacies instead of obtaining them for free from public pharmacies-a phenomenon we call public patient forwarding to private pharmacies. This behaviour results in substantial financial hardship. We examine whether low public drug stocks, patient preferences for private drugs or the presence of private pharmacies nearby explain this behaviour. METHODS: We collected cross-…
Can we all mourn? The politics of mourning and loss
Carceralities and Approved Gender Violence: The Case of Direct Provision in Ireland
In this article, we argue that Direct Provision in Ireland is a state approved form of gendered carcerality which creates and exacerbates conditions of gendered violence. Direct Provision is a system of processing asylum seekers in Ireland where they are temporarily provided accommodation while they wait for a decision on their refugee status claim. This article shows how carceral practices are layered and gendered, making some spaces and bodies …
Cost-effectiveness of a direct to beneficiary mobile communication programme in improving reproductive and child health outcomes in India
INTRODUCTION: Kilkari is the largest maternal messaging programme of its kind globally. Between its initiation in 2012 in Bihar and its transition to the government in 2019, Kilkari was scaled to 13 states across India and reached over 10 million new and expectant mothers and their families. This study aims to determine the cost-effectiveness of exposure to Kilkari as compared with no exposure across 13 states in India. METHODS: The study was con…
Unpaid Work by Women: A State-level Analysis of Evidence from Time-use Survey
Low and declining female labour force participation in India over the past two decades has turned attention to the high unpaid work time spent by women. The question, however, remains whether women spend more time on unpaid work because there are not enough jobs or whether it is time spent on unpaid work that is holding them back from participation in the labour force. Against this backdrop, the present article explores India’s nationally represe…
The impact of a direct to beneficiary mobile communication program on reproductive and child health outcomes: A randomised controlled trial in India
BACKGROUND: Direct-to-beneficiary communication mobile programmes are among the few examples of digital health programmes to have scaled widely in low-resource settings. Yet, evidence on their impact at scale is limited. This study aims to assess whether exposure to mobile health information calls during pregnancy and postpartum improved infant feeding and family planning practices. METHODS: We conducted an individually randomised controlled tria…
Does exposure to health information through mobile phones increase immunisation knowledge, completeness and timeliness in rural India
INTRODUCTION: Immunisation plays a vital role in reducing child mortality and morbidity against preventable diseases. As part of a randomised controlled trial in rural Madhya Pradesh, India to assess the impact of Kilkari, a maternal messaging programme, we explored determinants of parental immunisation knowledge and immunisation practice (completeness and timeliness) for children 0-12 months of age from four districts in Madhya Pradesh. METHODS:…
Connecting the dots: Kerala’s use of digital technology during the Covid-19 response
Digital tools are increasingly being applied to support the response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in India and elsewhere globally. This article draws from global frameworks to explore the use of digital tools in the state of Kerala across the domains of communication, surveillance, clinical management, non-clinical support, and core health system readiness and response. Kerala is considered India’s first digital state, with the highest percen…
SMS feedback system as a quality assurance mechanism: Experience from a household survey in rural India
The increasing use of digital health solutions to support data capture both as part of routine delivery of health services and through special surveys presents unique opportunities to enhance quality assurance measures. This study aims to demonstrate the feasibility and acceptability of using back-end data analytics and machine learning to identify impediments in data quality and feedback issues requiring follow-up to field teams using automated …
Examining the reach and exposure of a mobile phone-based training programme for frontline health workers (Ashas) in 13 states across India
Mobile phones are increasingly used to facilitate in-service training for frontline health workers (FLHWs). Mobile learning (mLearning) programmes have the potential to provide FLHWs with high quality, inexpensive, standardised learning at scale, and at the time and location of their choosing. However, further research is needed into FLHW engagement with mLearning content at scale, a factor which could influence knowledge and service delivery. Mo…
Can health information through mobile phones close the divide in health behaviours among the marginalised? An equity analysis of Kilkari in Madhya Pradesh, India
Kilkari is one of the largest maternal mobile messaging programmes in the world. It makes weekly prerecorded calls to new and expectant mothers and their families from the fourth month of pregnancy until 1-year post partum. The programme delivers reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health information directly to subscribers’ phones. However, little is known about the reach of Kilkari among different subgroups in the population, or the diff…
Symbolic violence” and Dalit feminism: Possibilities emerging from a Dalit feminist standpoint reading of Bourdieu
In this article, I work with feminist standpoint theory to rethink Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of “symbolic violence” and “habitus.” When read through feminist standpoint theory, the concept of symbolic violence may provide a missing link between subjective experiences and invisibilized forms of structural violence, and, I argue, can connect the structural and the immediate to form a powerful discursive methodological tool. This tool can help the …
Educators' value orientations endorsing their willingness to participate in sustainable activities: A study from Indian higher education institutions
The research studied the value orientations of higher education faculty members augmenting their willingness to participate in sustainable activities. An online survey has been done to collect the data from the top 100 institutions participated in National Institutional Ranking Framework, 2017 (India). The findings reveal that educators prioritise self-transcendence values when mediated by activated personal norms, their endorsement for altruisti…
Renewing membership in three community-based health insurance schemes in rural India
Low renewal rate is a key challenge facing the sustainability of community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes. While there is a large literature on initial enrolment into such schemes, there is limited evidence on the factors that impede renewal. This article uses longitudinal data to analyse what determines renewal, both 1 year and 2 years after the introduction of three CBHI schemes, which have been operating in rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh…
Enrolment in community-based health insurance schemes in rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India
This article assesses insurance uptake in three community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes located in rural parts of two of India's poorest states and offered through women's self-help groups (SHGs). We examine what drives uptake, the degree of inclusive practices of the schemes and the influence of health status on enrolment. The most important finding is that a household's socio-economic status does not appear to substantially inhibit upta…
Enrolment in community-based health insurance schemes in rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India
This article assesses insurance uptake in three community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes located in rural parts of two of India's poorest states and offered through women's self-help groups (SHGs). We examine what drives uptake, the degree of inclusive practices of the schemes and the influence of health status on enrolment. The most important finding is that a household's socio-economic status does not appear to substantially inhibit upta…
Carceralities and Approved Gender Violence: The Case of Direct Provision in Ireland
In this article, we argue that Direct Provision in Ireland is a state approved form of gendered carcerality which creates and exacerbates conditions of gendered violence. Direct Provision is a system of processing asylum seekers in Ireland where they are temporarily provided accommodation while they wait for a decision on their refugee status claim. This article shows how carceral practices are layered and gendered, making some spaces and bodies …
Renewing membership in three community-based health insurance schemes in rural India
Low renewal rate is a key challenge facing the sustainability of community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes. While there is a large literature on initial enrolment into such schemes, there is limited evidence on the factors that impede renewal. This article uses longitudinal data to analyse what determines renewal, both 1 year and 2 years after the introduction of three CBHI schemes, which have been operating in rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh…
Enrolment in community-based health insurance schemes in rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India
This article assesses insurance uptake in three community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes located in rural parts of two of India's poorest states and offered through women's self-help groups (SHGs). We examine what drives uptake, the degree of inclusive practices of the schemes and the influence of health status on enrolment. The most important finding is that a household's socio-economic status does not appear to substantially inhibit upta…
Renewing membership in three community-based health insurance schemes in rural India
Low renewal rate is a key challenge facing the sustainability of community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes. While there is a large literature on initial enrolment into such schemes, there is limited evidence on the factors that impede renewal. This article uses longitudinal data to analyse what determines renewal, both 1 year and 2 years after the introduction of three CBHI schemes, which have been operating in rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh…
Does exposure to health information through mobile phones increase immunisation knowledge, completeness and timeliness in rural India
INTRODUCTION: Immunisation plays a vital role in reducing child mortality and morbidity against preventable diseases. As part of a randomised controlled trial in rural Madhya Pradesh, India to assess the impact of Kilkari, a maternal messaging programme, we explored determinants of parental immunisation knowledge and immunisation practice (completeness and timeliness) for children 0-12 months of age from four districts in Madhya Pradesh. METHODS:…
Connecting the dots: Kerala’s use of digital technology during the Covid-19 response
Digital tools are increasingly being applied to support the response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in India and elsewhere globally. This article draws from global frameworks to explore the use of digital tools in the state of Kerala across the domains of communication, surveillance, clinical management, non-clinical support, and core health system readiness and response. Kerala is considered India’s first digital state, with the highest percen…
SMS feedback system as a quality assurance mechanism: Experience from a household survey in rural India
The increasing use of digital health solutions to support data capture both as part of routine delivery of health services and through special surveys presents unique opportunities to enhance quality assurance measures. This study aims to demonstrate the feasibility and acceptability of using back-end data analytics and machine learning to identify impediments in data quality and feedback issues requiring follow-up to field teams using automated …
Examining the reach and exposure of a mobile phone-based training programme for frontline health workers (Ashas) in 13 states across India
Mobile phones are increasingly used to facilitate in-service training for frontline health workers (FLHWs). Mobile learning (mLearning) programmes have the potential to provide FLHWs with high quality, inexpensive, standardised learning at scale, and at the time and location of their choosing. However, further research is needed into FLHW engagement with mLearning content at scale, a factor which could influence knowledge and service delivery. Mo…
Can health information through mobile phones close the divide in health behaviours among the marginalised? An equity analysis of Kilkari in Madhya Pradesh, India
Kilkari is one of the largest maternal mobile messaging programmes in the world. It makes weekly prerecorded calls to new and expectant mothers and their families from the fourth month of pregnancy until 1-year post partum. The programme delivers reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health information directly to subscribers’ phones. However, little is known about the reach of Kilkari among different subgroups in the population, or the diff…
Symbolic violence” and Dalit feminism: Possibilities emerging from a Dalit feminist standpoint reading of Bourdieu
In this article, I work with feminist standpoint theory to rethink Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of “symbolic violence” and “habitus.” When read through feminist standpoint theory, the concept of symbolic violence may provide a missing link between subjective experiences and invisibilized forms of structural violence, and, I argue, can connect the structural and the immediate to form a powerful discursive methodological tool. This tool can help the …
Educators' value orientations endorsing their willingness to participate in sustainable activities: A study from Indian higher education institutions
The research studied the value orientations of higher education faculty members augmenting their willingness to participate in sustainable activities. An online survey has been done to collect the data from the top 100 institutions participated in National Institutional Ranking Framework, 2017 (India). The findings reveal that educators prioritise self-transcendence values when mediated by activated personal norms, their endorsement for altruisti…
The impact of a direct to beneficiary mobile communication program on reproductive and child health outcomes: A randomised controlled trial in India
BACKGROUND: Direct-to-beneficiary communication mobile programmes are among the few examples of digital health programmes to have scaled widely in low-resource settings. Yet, evidence on their impact at scale is limited. This study aims to assess whether exposure to mobile health information calls during pregnancy and postpartum improved infant feeding and family planning practices. METHODS: We conducted an individually randomised controlled tria…
Cost-effectiveness of a direct to beneficiary mobile communication programme in improving reproductive and child health outcomes in India
INTRODUCTION: Kilkari is the largest maternal messaging programme of its kind globally. Between its initiation in 2012 in Bihar and its transition to the government in 2019, Kilkari was scaled to 13 states across India and reached over 10 million new and expectant mothers and their families. This study aims to determine the cost-effectiveness of exposure to Kilkari as compared with no exposure across 13 states in India. METHODS: The study was con…
Unpaid Work by Women: A State-level Analysis of Evidence from Time-use Survey
Low and declining female labour force participation in India over the past two decades has turned attention to the high unpaid work time spent by women. The question, however, remains whether women spend more time on unpaid work because there are not enough jobs or whether it is time spent on unpaid work that is holding them back from participation in the labour force. Against this backdrop, the present article explores India’s nationally represe…
Carceralities and Approved Gender Violence: The Case of Direct Provision in Ireland
In this article, we argue that Direct Provision in Ireland is a state approved form of gendered carcerality which creates and exacerbates conditions of gendered violence. Direct Provision is a system of processing asylum seekers in Ireland where they are temporarily provided accommodation while they wait for a decision on their refugee status claim. This article shows how carceral practices are layered and gendered, making some spaces and bodies …
Public patient forwarding to private pharmacies: An analysis of data linking patients, facilities and pharmacies in the state of Odisha, India
INTRODUCTION: In India, public sector patients purchase drugs from private pharmacies instead of obtaining them for free from public pharmacies-a phenomenon we call public patient forwarding to private pharmacies. This behaviour results in substantial financial hardship. We examine whether low public drug stocks, patient preferences for private drugs or the presence of private pharmacies nearby explain this behaviour. METHODS: We collected cross-…
Can we all mourn? The politics of mourning and loss
Developing social sustainability reporting framework for manufacturing SMEs using ISM approach: An Indian perspective
Purpose Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) constitute an indispensable component of the global economic system. They account for 90% of all business entities and are acknowledged as essential players in export operations, economic advancement and employment generation within an economy. However, these entities often face existential challenges owing to insufficient social evaluation of both direct and indirect concerns. This study aims to deline…
Race, gender, and the immigrant student: Aspiring decolonisation in Irish universities
The growth in international students in the context of the global ‘internationalisation’ agenda within academia offers significant opportunities for broadening and deepening multicultural exchange, understanding and learning within universities. However, to do so effectively means acknowledging the reality that many universities around the world remain colonial strongholds of white, male, middle-class privilege. Drawing from our respective experi…
Shaping the Future of Environmental Sustainability in SMEs: A Hybrid NGT and Grey AHP Approach
The manufacturing sector is crucial for sustainable development, with Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) constituting 90% of businesses and aiding exports and job creation. This study examines environmental sustainability challenges in manufacturing SMEs and ranks standards and disclosures using Modified Nominal Group Technique (M‐NGT) and Grey Analytic Hierarchy Process (Grey‐AHP). The research produced a materiality matrix for environmental ch…
Political science (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · ICT in Developing Communities (5 works)