Suparba Sil, MPhil
CV
Suparba Sil is currently a Research Associate at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Luzern.
She previously held the position of a Visiting Researcher at the department, as a Swiss Government Excellence Fellow (2024-25). During her time as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Luzern, she conducted research on the debates involved in the making of egg donation policies in Switzerland (ongoing), through in-depth interviews with concerned stakeholders such as policymakers, fertility experts, civil society organizations and representatives of various political parties in Switzerland.
Suparba’s ongoing Doctoral Research is an attempt to compare the contestations and debates that have shaped the policy guidelines, briefs and motions related to egg donation in India and Switzerland. Through the comparative analysis between the two countries, her research aims to arrive at cross-cultural conjectures about larger themes such as the ‘value’ of female reproductive labour, reproductive autonomy, importance of genealogical inheritance, and finally, the significance of heteronormative filiation, between countries with distinctly different socio-cultural contexts, and health and policy reforms.
Prior to her research on egg donation policies, she has worked on the ‘potential impact of the Surrogacy Act of 2021 in India’, funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research. Suparba has also worked as a researcher/ evaluator with organizations of national and international repute such as the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation and The George Institute for Global Health, for over 4 years in between her academic degrees. Her work experience expands across sectors such as gender and health, technology and policy studies, water, sanitation and health (WASH) and rehabilitation.
Publikationen
- ‘The Perils of the Pandemic and India’s Child Victims of Covid- 19’ in the International Journal of Child Health and Nutrition.
Link: https://www.lifescienceglobal.com/pms/index.php/ijchn/article/view/8530 - “Muzzafarnagar: The Politics of Post-Truth and Hindu Nationalism” in Subversions (vol 8): ISSN 2347-9426. Link: http://subversions.tiss.edu/vol-8/suparba-sil/
- “Policy as a Discourse: An Exploration of Assisted Reproductive Technology Regulations in India”, IMPRR, vol 2(2), ISSN: 2583-3464
- https://iprr.impriindia.com/policy-discourse-exploration-assisted-reproductive-technology/
