Prof. Shivakumar’s primary research interests are Data analytics, Education policy, and Human development. He studies the structural challenges faced by the government schools and examines ways to reorganize school system for better functionality. In recent years, he has worked on drain of enrollment in government schools in Karnataka, school consolidation, Right to Education, and learning level crisis.

He received his PhD in theoretical condensed matter Physics and doctoral minor in Demography from Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA. Prior to joining FLAME, Jolad taught courses in Physics, education history and policy, and demographic methods for graduate and undergraduate students at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar. In Public health, Jolad has worked on modelling epidemic spreading in urban areas, and health services access and utilization. He is one of the co-authors of Ahmedabad District Human Development Report 2016.

Apart from academic work, Jolad has worked with several Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) such as Akshara Foundation, Pratham, People’s Health Movement (PHM)-India and AID-India on projects related to public health and elementary education.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

AY 2021-22

• Mehr Kalra and Shivakumar Jolad , Regression in Learning: The High Cost of COVID-19 for Indias Children, ORF Issue Brief No. 484, August 2021, Observer Research Foundation. https://www.orfonline.org/research/regression-in-learning/

AY 2020-21

• Chakresh Kumar Singh, Demival Vasques Filho, Shivakumar Jolad , and Dion R. J. ONeale Evolution of interdependent co-authorship and citation networks - Scientometrics, 125, pages 385-404(2020), https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-020-03616-0

AY 2019-20

• Richa Tripathi, Dyutiman Mukhopadhay, Chakresh K Singh, Krishna Prasad, and Shivakumar Jolad, Characterization of functional brain networks and emotional centers using the complex networks techniques, Complex Networks and Their Applications VIII. COMPLEX NETWORKS 2019. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 882. Springer, Cham, (2019) https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10086903/


• Chakresh Kumar Singh and Shivakumar Jolad, Structure and Evolution of Indian Physics Co- authorship Networks, Scientometrics, Volume 118, Issue 2, pp 385-406, 2019. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-018-02999-5

AY 2018-19

• Shivakumar Jolad and K Vaijayanti, India needs to restructure its government schools to prevent its collapse, in State of Inclusive Growth in India: Some Perspectives,  Vikalpa (Journal for Policymakers), March 2018 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0256090918758849

AY 2017-18

• Murali Krishna Enduri and Shivakumar Jolad, Dynamics of dengue disease with human and vector mobility. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. Volume 25, June 2018, Pages 57-66, doi: 10.1016/j.sste.2018.03.001. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1877584517300229?via%3Dihub


• Murali Krishna Enduri and Shivakumar Jolad, Estimation of reproduction number and non-stationary spectral analysis of Dengue epidemic, Mathematical Biosciences, 288 (2017): 140-148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2017.03.007 arXiv:1611.05741.

Before 2017

• Shivakumar Jolad, Wenjia Liu, R.K.P. Zia, and Beate Schmittmann., Epidemic spreading on static and adaptive preferred degree networks., PLoS ONE 7(11): e48686 (2012),. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0048686


• Shivakumar Jolad, Diptiman Sen, and Jainendra Jain., Fractional quantum Hall edge: Effect of nonlinear dispersion and edge roton, Physical Review B  82, 075315 (2010). https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.82.075315


• Shivakumar Jolad and Jainendra Jain., Testing the topological nature of the quantum Hall edge. Physical Review Letters  102, 116801 (2009). https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.116801


• Chuntai Shi,  Shivakumar Jolad, Nicolas Regnault, and Jainendra Jain., Phase diagram for bilayer quantum Hall effect at total filling \nu_T= 5/2, Physical Review B  77, 155127 (2008). https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.77.155127


• Shivakumar Jolad, Chia-Chen Chang, and Jainendra Jain., Electron Operator at the edge of 1/3 fractional quantum Hall liquid, Physical Review B  75, 165306 (2007). https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.75.165306


• Wayne M Saslow and  Shivakumar Jolad., Supersolid 4He has nearly isotropic superflow, Physical Review. B  73, 092505 (2006). https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.73.092505

BOOK CHAPTERS

AY 2021-22

• Shivakumar Jolad and Shalaka Shah , Food Security and Psychological Distress of Migrants during COVID-19 Lockdown, India Migration Report- 2021, https://tinyurl.com/JoladShah-IMR2021

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Shalaka Shah and Shivakumar Jolad, Surviving the Waves of Lockdown: Economic & Psychological Distress of Unorganized Migrant Workers during First & Second Wave lockdown in Pune, in proceedings of IIMAD Conference on Internal Migration and Livelihood, Aug-2021


• Chakresh Kumar Singh, Ravi Vishwakarma, and Shivakumar Jolad, Exploring the Role and Nature of Interactions Between Institutes in a Local Affiliation Network. Complex Networks X. CompleNet 2019. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, March 2019.


• Shivakumar Jolad and Vaijayanti K, Drain of government schools in India: Is school consolidation, the answer? Evidences from Karnataka, Eighth CESI International Conference: Criticality, Empathy and Welfare in Contemporary Educational Discourses, Nov 2017


• Shivakumar Jolad, Ahmed Roman, Mahesh C. Shastry, Mihir Gadgil, and Ayanendranath Basu, A Family of Bounded Divergence Measures Based on The Bhattacharyya Coefficient, Proceedings 5th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM), Rome, pages 72-83 , March 2016 arxiv:1201.0418.


• Murali Krishna Enduri, I. Vinod Reddy and Shivakumar Jolad, Does diversity of papers affect their citations? Evidence from American Physical Society Journals, The 4th International Workshop on Complex Networks and their Applications November 23-27, 2015 Bangkok, Thailand arxiv:1512.05057.


• Gaurav Madaan, and Shivakumar Jolad., Evolution of scientic collaboration networks., 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Washington DC, pg 7-13 (2014).

REPORTS, PROGRAM EVALUATION

• Sumana. Acharya, et al, Challenges to Implementation of Mother-Tongue as Medium of Instruction in India: A case study of Maharashtra, Leadership for Equity, Pune, January 2022


• Shivakumar Jolad, Shalaka Shah, and Chaitanya Ravi, Survival of migrants in a crisis: Distress of Migrants left behind during Lockdown in Pune, , March 2021


• Shivakumar Jolad and Vaijayanti K, Restructuring government schools in Karnataka- a study of small schools and school consolidation , Akshara Foundation, Jan, 2019.


• Tannistha Samanta, Shivakumar Jolad, Malavika Subramanyam, and Mukta Gundi, District Human Development Report of Ahmedabad, Gujarat Social Infrastructure Development Society, Government of Gujarat, -2016


• Shivakumar Jolad and Malavika Subramanyam, Evaluation of Pratham Open School Education and Pratham Supported Schools in Gujarat and Rajasthan blocks: 2013- 2014. Pratham, 2014

WORKING PAPERS

• Shivakumar Jolad and Aayush Agarwal, Mapping India's Language and Mother Tongue Diversity and its Exclusion in the Indian Census, Working paper 2021 https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/sjxc6/


• Shivakumar Jolad and Chaitanya Ravi, Addressing the dilemma of Indias state dependency on Alcohol: New-Soft Paternalism approach, working paper, 2021 https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/7pnh5/


• Shivakumar Jolad and Isha Doshi, Colonial Legacy of Language Politics and Medium of Instruction Policy in India, working paper, 2020. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/w9j7x/

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

• Mehr Kalra and Shivakumar Jolad , Regression in Learning: The High Cost of COVID-19 for Indias Children, ORF Issue Brief No. 484, August 2021, Observer Research Foundation. https://www.orfonline.org/research/regression-in-learning/


• Shivakumar Jolad, Can India reap the demographic 'dividend' in higher education? , Ideas for India (economics and policy portal), - Sept 05, 2017. https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/social-identity/can-india-reap-the-demographic-dividend-in-higher-education.html


• Shivakumar Jolad, Restructuring the schooling system in India, Ideas for India, May 07, 2018. https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/human-development/restructuring-india-s-schooling-system.html


• Shivakumar Jolad and Malavika Subramanyam, Evaluation of Pratham Open School Education and Pratham Supported Schools program in Gujarat and Rajasthan blocks, Program Evaluation report- Pratham, 2014

MAGAZINE AND MEDIA ARTICLES

• Shivakumar Jolad, Ragini Rao Munjuluri, and Sambit Dash, E-Governance and its Discontents: The Traps of Tech Revolutions in Stratified Societies, The Bastion -December 17, 2021


• Shivakumar Jolad and Yugank Goyal , What our Constituent Assembly debates reveal of a vital process , Mint, Nov 26, 2021.


• Shivakumar Jolad and Aayush Agarwal.  India's Linguistic Diversity How the Census obscures It , The India Forum, Aug 2021.


• Shivakumar Jolad, Shalaka Shah, and Swagam Dasgupta -Unravelling Punes COVID-19 Migrant Crisis: History Speaks, The Bastion, May 27, 2021


• Shivakumar Jolad Selective Amnesia of a crisis can be a recipe for a future one , medium, April 7, 2021


• Shivakumar Jolad, On English-medium education, India is having the same debates it did 200 years ago Scroll.In , Aug 22, 2020


• Aayush Agarwal and Shivakumar Jolad, The pedagogical problems of the census, The India Forum, July 7 2020


• Chaitanya Ravi, Juhi Sidharth, and  Shivakumar Jolad, National Education Policy: How liberal education can be Indianised to produce pragmatic technocrats, Business Standard, Oct 09, 2019


• Abhramika Choudhuri and Shivakumar Jolad, Indian Textbooks Need to Account for Minority Identities Better, The Bastion, June 25, 2020.


• Shivakumar Jolad, NEP and Higher Education, India Education Diary, Aug 24, 2020


• Shivakumar Jolad, Farm sector doles: Band-aid solutions hide jobless growth, Firstpost, Feb 25, 2019.


• Chaitanya Ravi, and Shivakumar Jolad, Multipurpose identity card: A gateway to state voyeurism, Happenings at FLAME, 2019


• Shivakumar Jolad, Constitutional Journey of the Fundamental Rights, medium, Jan 25, 2019.


• Pranjali Kulkarni and Shivakumar Jolad, Dissecting the language policy , medium, June 13, 2019


• Shivakumar Jolad, Higher Education Council should stand for support rather than control of higher education, DNA. Nov 5, 2018


• Shivakumar Jolad,Restructuring the public school system , Mint , 23 Feb 2018


• Shivakumar Jolad, Beyond physical access to schools, Mint, 22 Feb 2018


• Shivakumar Jolad, Nation and Nationalism is incomplete if we dont own the dark shades of our past, DNA, Jan 25, 2018


• Shivakumar Jolad, Namma Sarkaaari Shaalegalige Bhavishyavideya ?, Op-ed in Prajavani (Kannada daily), Jul. 29, 2017.


• Shivakumar Jolad, Aadhaar linkage will set the record straight; detractors must move on, Swarajya, Jun. 20, 2017.


• Shivakumar Jolad, Five Suggestions For The New Education Policy, article for Swarajya Magazine, Aug 19, 2015.