The UNDP
Human Development Academic Fellowship for Asia Pacific carries an
award of US$ 10,000. The objective of the Academic Fellowship is to
encourage young Ph.D. students from the Asia Pacific region to analyse
critical development issues from a human development perspective,
contributing to development theory, applications and policies. Fellows
are expected to push the frontiers of research on human development
while analyzing, through the human development lens, issues related to
human development. A communication from UNDP while informing Nisha of
the award states that her “application and interview was one of the
strongest out of all candidates”.
Nisha is pursuing her Ph.D. in Gender and Development Studies under
the supervision of Dr. Bernadette P. Resurreccion, Associate Professor
at AIT. Her Ph.D title is “Gendered Pathways to Climate Change
Adaptation: The Case of Jumla, the Mid-Western Hills of Nepal”. She is
currently a Norad fellowship awardee
at AIT.