Prior to the MPhil, Sneha worked as a Research Consultant for two years with experience spreading across academia and social impact consulting.

Sneha’s previous research has primarily focused on access to justice for victim/survivors of domestic violence and commercial sexual exploitation and the mental health of prisoners. She has undertaken fieldwork in prisons and courts. For her MPhil dissertation, Sneha undertook research to understand how women who have filed domestic violence cases experience court proceedings and its impact on their perceptions of court and seeking justice. For this, she utilised ethnographic methods involving court and participant observation. She observed 65 domestic violence case proceedings and undertook semi-structured and unstructured interviews with women who had filed these cases and their lawyers.

Sneha has also worked in a secure welfare unit in India to support the rehabilitation of children in conflict with law and those in need of care and protection.

Her skills include:

• Undertaking desk-based research, evaluations, policy landscape studies, baseline and endline assessments.
• Designing research instruments for qualitative and quantitative studies including interview guides, interview schedules and surveys.
• Utilising ethnographic methods and undertaking semi-structured interviews in high security settings such as prisons, courts, secure welfare unit with staff, children and young people and adults.
• Thematically analysing data using Excel, MAXQDA, NVivo and SPSS.
• Writing reports and policy briefs for the government, academicians, and research organisations.

As a researcher, Sneha is responsible for designing the research instruments for data collection, interviewing relevant stakeholders, conducting data cleaning and analysis, and supporting report writing.

• Evaluation of Bambu programme for children and young people impacted by domestic abuse. This evaluation uses qualitative and quantitative analysis, including fieldwork engaging a range of stakeholders and young people, to assess how the programme is impacting the children and young people (11-24 years) across 8 London boroughs who have used it and make recommendations on how to improve the support system for young people impacted by domestic abuse.

• Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Changing Futures Programme – Westminster. This is an evaluation project that aims to understand the efficacy of the programme in supporting persons experiencing multiple disadvantages such as homelessness, substance misuse, mental health issues, domestic abuse and contact with the criminal justice system.