Shristi Shakya

Shristi Shakya is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research examines the intersections of gender, social inclusion, and development. She holds an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Oxford, which is complemented by over five years of professional experience in applied research, critical policy analysis and community engagement.

Her work is distinguished by its focus on the disjunctures between macro-level political and policy dynamics, and the lived, community centric realities of implementation. She seeks to interrogate the implementation gap between policy rhetoric and practice, advocating for more just, inclusive and reflexive approaches.

At the Uehiro Oxford Institute, she will work with Professor Katrien Devolder on 'Project Lazy', bringing her interdisciplinary social science perspective into dialogue with the project's philosophical framework, contributing to a more nuanced and holistic understanding of the concept of laziness.