Jyothi Thrivikraman is an Assistant Professor of Global Public Health. Jyothi has been at Leiden University College since 2017. The core of her research since joining LUC has focused on food waste and food insecurity. She was part of a knowledge partnership with a group of colleagues at LUC, supported by an award from the Central Innovation District in The Hague municipality, working on food waste as an expression of identities, prosperity, social and ecological rights, and responsibilities. From this experience, her interests in participatory action research and community engagement developed. Many of her current projects sit at this intersection of participatory action research and food insecurity/waste. Jyothi has been awarded a Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) grant for an inter-faculty project titled 'The many faces of food markets during COVID-19: Stories of solidarity and change through and with food'. She also worked with Institute of Security Studies on food markets during Covid.
Future research plans include collaborations with Humanities across Borders on “Storytelling as Pedagogy”, interfaculty KIEM grant on food poverty and stigma as well as collaborations with University of Birmingham (UK) on food insecurity in the United Kingdom and Netherlands. Lastly, Jyothi was part of a successful starter grant titled “Refloc: Resilient Ecosystems and Flourishing Communities”.